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Descriptive Mineralogy should include first of all a description of the crystallographic, general physical and chemical characters of each mineral species, and should further give an account of its mode of occurrence and characteristic associations. In the case of minerals possessing an economic value, a brief statement of their uses is of interest.
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Deer, W. A., R.A. Howie and J. Zussman. An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals. 2nd edition. Wiley, New York. [Standard in the field, used by mineralogists and petrologists who investigate rocks in thin section.] 1992.
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Frye, K. (editor). The Encyclopedia of Mineralogy. Volume IVB of the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences. Hutchinson Ross Publ. Co. Stroudsburg, PA: [Good overview of some interesting mineralogical topics, accompanied by short articles on those topics. In EPSc library, QE355.R6.] 1981.
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Mukherjee, S. (2011). Descriptive Mineralogy. In: Applied Mineralogy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1162-4_7
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