2006, Perfect Binding
258 pages
Dimensions: 140 x 217 mm
ISBN: 9780978761516
$25.00
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| The Mineral Gods Must Be Laughing |
The Mineral Collecting Adventures of a Modern
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 Language: English
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Author: Roy D. Lee
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Edited by: Vicky L. Jones, Roy, W. Jones
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The Mineral Gods Must Be Laughing!
In this treasure trove, Roy shares the confessions and adventures, of a modern day "Indiana Jones". His serious, heartwarming and hilarious tales of collecting crystals and chasing mine varmints in the Desert Southwest, will have you asking, "Why on Earth would you want to do that?"
A partial answer, so that the amazing and delightful oddities of nature, maybe hidden beneath your own back yard, can be studied by scientists, or be seen in private collections and world class museums. The other part? Profit! Sometimes those curiosities are traded away for just enough gas money to get to the next mine tunnel.
Roy gives us a rare glimpse into the dangerous, dirty, frustrating and exhilarating work of liberating crystals and mineral specimens, some more valuable than a King's Ransom, from the ground beneath our feet.
The Mineral Gods only award the precious gems and one of a kind specimens to the lucky, the persistent, the tenacious, or to those who have banged their head on the roof of a mine tunnel once too often.
Why do people travel miles out of their way, camp out in the wild, get up at Oh-Dark-Thirty in the morning, strain their muscles, sweat like pigs, and singe their eyebrows with open flame lights, only to end up whacking their own fingers with a sledge hammer?
For mineral collectors, rocks hounds, or innocent bystanders, Lee says, "It's because collecting is part treasure hunting, part addiction, part Zen, and part masochism - mostly masochism."
A successful entrepreneur and businessman, Roy Lee took up mineral collecting first for fun, and later for profit, as a second grader in Casa Grande, Arizona.
Now, nearly five decades later, when Roy hears the sweet laughter of the Mineral Gods he knows they laugh with him.
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