New Gemstone Book

Is there a giant, unrecognized, opal and agate deposit near Douglas Wyoming? Opals
and banded chalcedony occur in southeastern Arizona that are mostly untouched.
A large peridot deposit sits south of Las Cruces New Mexico near the Mexican border,
and there are likely dozens of unrecognized diamond deposits all over Colorado,
Kansas, Montana and Wyoming. These are a few of the interesting subjects 
in my latest book on "Finding Gemstones ....".

Not long ago, I searched Alaska, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Kansas and California for gold, sapphire and/or diamonds when a couple of companies contracted me to find them a mineral deposit. So, with a company credit card, keys to a 4WD truck, and a couple of dollars in my pocket, I was off to the hills looking at some rocks. Found interesting targets that they never followed up on: one  favorite targets was later found to contain diamonds. Strange how some mining companies operate.

Another company sent me to Alaska. Six other geologists and I found one of the largest gold deposits in the 20th century, and three of us were independent cusses from Wyoming. Everyone talks about teamwork, but it doesn't work well in exploration as you need people who are recluses and different. Exploration successes are mostly a result of independently minded prospectors and geologists. People who can get the job done by themselves in the middle of nowhere, and their only friend is a large gun used for bear repellent.

I tell some of prospecting stories, but mostly I describe what to look for in gemstones, how to recognize them, and give the reader dozens of locations of gemstone deposits and possible deposits they can follow up on to see if they can find treasure in the Earth.