Mineral Collecting in ARIZONA--PART I: A Look at the State's Most Prolific Sources

摘要

I grew up and got my college degrees in Connecticut, and wrote my master's thesis on Luminescent Minerals of Connecticut. However, I've spent most of my collecting life in Arizona, one of the great mineral provinces of America. In the early days of my Arizona collecting, things were pretty easy. There were plenty of old mines to explore and plenty of good minerals to dig, and local clubs could usually get permission to conduct field trips in restricted areas. Some 60 years ago, the number of collecting sites seemed endless. It was never a matter of finding a place to collect. It was more a case of deciding which sites you hadn't visited lately.