2008, Hardcover
616 pages
Dimensions: 225 x 285 mm
ISBN: 9781903544228
$190.00
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| Minerals of Britain and Ireland |
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 Language: English
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Author: Andrew G. Tindle
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A long-awaited new book has just been published on the minerals of Great Britain and Ireland, by Andrew Tindle, Senior Project Officer in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. Tindle, the author of over 90 scientific papers and two books, has compiled an exhaustive and up-to-date review of British mineral occurrences, including many discoveries that have not previously been reported in the literature. The work is meticulously referenced, including much information taken from the collector literature.
One must go back to The Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland (1858) by Robert Philips Gregg and William Garrow Lettsom to find another comprehensive work on this subject. Since that time, over 900 more species have been found in Great Britain and Ireland; 2,200 species are listed in the book, over 1,000 of which have been analytically confirmed by the author. And unlike Gregg and Lettsom, Tindle has the advantage of being able to include over 550 illustrations, most of them in color—and many of them taken by the late Mick Cooper.
This is a monumental effort that should prove extremely useful to mineral collectors, dealers, curators and mineralogists. Early comments from reviewers in England have bordered on ecstatic: “A magnificent contribution to topographic mineralogy” (Chris Stanley, Natural History Museum); “This really is THE definitive book on British mineralogy” (Roy Starkey); “The information is of an extremely high quality throughout ... a masterpiece on British mineralogy that is unlikely to be bettered for another 150 years” (Jolyon Ralph, Mindat).
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