Flashback!(history of Rocks and Minerals journal)

From: Rocks & Minerals | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Many of the articles written for Rocks and Minerals during its 72-year history are still relevant in 1998. Journals published in 1985 and 1972 were devoted to the rocks and minerals of Virginia. A journal published in 1946 was devoted to rocks and minerals in various countries, including India and Germany. A journal in 1928 provided a comprehensive list of gem names. Readers should use back issues as a valuable resource.

Rocks & Minerals 1926-1998

Walk with me now through those days of yesteryear ...

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, July/ August 1985: From time to time this magazine has ...

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