TABLE OF CONTENTS 1974 |
| January | Whole #412 | 49:1 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Twenty Years Ago | Philip Morrill | 3 |
| Jade | The Grand Rapids Press | 21 |
| Diggers' Learn Florida Once Cold | Eric Sharp | 23 |
| Roses and Rattlers | James Smedley | 34 |
| Local 'Rockhound' Finds Adventure In Gem Quests | Clarence Leino | 38 |
| Avoid Lapidary Mistakes | John Cholson | 55 |
| A Nyalla Hunt In Zululand - South Africa Turns Into, a Mineralogy Field Trip | William A. Oppold | 58 |
| Oil Industry Highly Competitive Exxon U.S.A.'s President Testifies | 60 | |
| Cutting Soft Stones | Southwest Gem | 62 |
| Tips For Preparing A Display Case | Rock Trails | 65 |
| Tumbling | Kip Hodges | 12 |
| The Amateur Lapidary | Helen L. MacLeod | 15 |
| Fossils | A. G. Zvirblis | 18 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 26 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 44 | |
| Publications Recently Received | 45 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 54 |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 57 |
| Swapping Corner | 66 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 68 | |
| Coming Events | 2, 67 | |
| Gems Are Many-Colored | 10 | |
| Granted A Patent | Dr. K. L. Gauri | 11 |
| Lapping Geodes | The T-Town Rockhound | 14 |
| Mineral Puns | Mrs. Alexander Grande | 20 |
| What Is An Agate? | 31 | |
| New Headquarters For Raytech Industries | 36 | |
| February | Whole #413 | 49:2 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| The Crystal Systems (Part IV of a Four Part Series) | Dorothy A. Buzzell | 75 |
| Gold Prospecting Sweeps Idaho | Margaret Bailey | 77 |
| The Search For Hot Rocks | J. Eric Schuster | 78 |
| Springtime in Carolina | Lloyd A. Allison | 86 |
| Healing Effects of Minerals | Tomasz J. Turley | 88 |
| Kvarts Looks For Gold | Lazar Lifshits | 94 |
| How I Became a Rockhound | Mrs. Frank W. Kern | 106 |
| Modern, Sussex Zinc Mine Shatters Image of Oldtime Operations | (Paterson News) - James P. Carr, Jr. | 111 |
| Gem Minerals of Georgia | James G. Lester | 131 |
| Tumbling | Kip Hodges | 84 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 90 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 98 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 116 | |
| Publications Recently Received | 117 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 126 |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 129 |
| Swapping Corner | 138 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 140 | |
| Coming Events | 74,139 | |
| Memorial to Stanley I. Perham | B. M. Shaub | 82 |
| U.S. Mineral Development Lagging | (California Geology, act. 1973) | 91 |
| Use and Conservation of Minerals | U.S. Geological Survey | 92 |
| Seafloor Minerals-Forming Processes | California Geology | 110 |
| What Are These Things Called Jewels | Tuscarora Bulletin | 128 |
| Gems of The Silica Group | Patricia Roebuck | 136 |
| March | Whole #414 | 49:3 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| State Stones | George E. Kosel 'Newsletter' | 184 |
| Is Lapis Lazuli A Precious Gem? | Ask Andy' - Tulsa Daily World | 199 |
| Minerals From The Sea | Dr. O. M. Dikshit and Prof. J. T. Henry, Sr. | 147 |
| Agate Collecting Down The Sucker Creek Canyon of Eastern Oregon | Paul L. Broughton | 151 |
| Miarolitic Minerals of The Conway Granite | Bruce W. Buckley | 154 |
| The Scramble For Resources | Dennis Starbuck (Gems) | 178 |
| On The Agate Trail | Fred B. Jones | 182 |
| No Substitute For Gold | South African Scope | 203 |
| Making Rocks | Irene Kiefer - The Nat'l. Science Foundation | 205 |
| Tumbling | Kip Hodges | 157 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 162 |
| Chips And Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 170 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 188 | |
| Publications Recently Received | 189, 202 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 198 |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 201 |
| Swapping Corner | 210 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 212 | |
| Coming Events | 146, 209, | |
| Coal Carving - A Frustrating Art | 'Gems' - From 'Grit' | 156 |
| Apophyllite From North Carolina | Lloyd A. Allison | 158 |
| Arizona Tells Turquoise Story | The Dopstick | 176 |
| Garnet | The T-Town Rockhound | 183 |
| April | Whole #415 | 49:4 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| An Introduction to the Topography, Geology and Mineral Resources of North Carolina | Sam D. Broadhurst (Revised 1973) Eldon P. Allen | 219 |
| State Stones | George E. Kosel (Newsletter) | 232 |
| Shaping the Face of Minnesota | Robert E. Sheldon (Geo-Logic) | 250 |
| Gem labradorite in New York State | Maurice Ancher | 253 |
| A Review of Mineralogical, Geological and Mining Activities in The Franklin Area, Sussex County, New Jersey | Allen W. Pinger (The Picking Table) | 256 |
| Minerals In Our World | Elmer B. Rowley | 277 |
| Tumbling | Kip Hodges | 229 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 234 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 242 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 260 | |
| Publications Recently Received | 261, 274 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 270 |
| Thumbnail's | John Reiner | 275 |
| Swapping Corner | 282 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 284 | |
| Coming Events | 218, 281, | |
| Viewing Stones | Paula Busch | 226 |
| What's Going on Below? Find Out From A Diamond (Crystal Lines) | Jack Merrill | 230 |
| Synthesis Of Minerals - A New Trend in Geology | Vilen Zharikov | 236 |
| Hammered Round Link Chain - (Miami Mineral and Gem Society) | Wanda Wasilkowski | 240 |
| Care and Cleaning of Gems and Jewelry | (Sooner Rockologist) | 240 |
| May | Whole #416 | 49:5 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Giants From The Ordovician Sea | Rhonda Pettit | 291 |
| A Regional Museum Mirrors The Interests of Its Public | Harry G. Johnson | 294 |
| Interesting Quarries in Pennsylvania | George Meyers | 296 |
| After Apollo, Geology of The Moon | Mark Kent (T-Town Rockhound) | 298 |
| Minerals In Our World | Elmer B. Rowley (Part II) | 322 |
| The Oregon Blues | Carleton E. McMackin | 349 |
| Tumbling | Kip Hodges | 302 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 305 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Cubs | Vernon Wertz | 314 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 332 | |
| Publications Recently Received | 333 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 342 |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 347 |
| Swapping Corner | 354 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 356 | |
| Coming Events | 290, 353, | |
| The Book of The Rockhound Chronicles | (Sooner Rockologist) | 300 |
| Exxon Plans A Six-Year Synthetic Oil-Gas Program | 304 | |
| Alabama Crystallized Petrified Wood | 312 | |
| New Idea For Recovery of Oil from Tar Sands | (Earth & Mineral Sciences) | 343 |
| American Indian Jewelry | Ada and Marian Smith | 357 |
| June | Whole #417 | 49:6 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 414 |
| Publications Recently Received | 416 | |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 419 |
| Swapping Corner | 426 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 428 | |
| The Amateur Lapidary | Helen L. MacLeod | 429 |
| Coming Events | 362, 425, | |
| Argentojarosite - New Colorado Mineral | Richard M. Pearl | 373 |
| Veta Grande Bullion | 380 | |
| Want A Different Color? Try Heat Treating | Jeannine Shaw | 384 |
| Gem-Maine-ia. '75 - A First For Maine | 417 | |
| A Trip To Gilsum, N. H. | Al Prandli | 418 |
| Monterey Coal To Open Second Illinois Mine | 420 | |
| One Of Our Favorite Rock Hunting Areas, Onyx Peak, Gila County, Arizona | Carleton E. McMackin | 363 |
| The Rosh-Hanikra Sea Caves of Northwestern Israel | Paul L. Broughton | 366 |
| Burgundy Hill Quarries and Garnet Mines at Tolland, Conn. | Mrs. Bruce Cramer | 368 |
| Opportunity for Meteorite Discovery Abounds Across Vast American Lands | Harry G. Johnson | 372 |
| Elements in Granite Pegmatite | David M. Seaman | 379 |
| Minerals of Creede, Mineral County, Colorado | Arthur E. Smith, Jr. | 394 |
| Sojourn Along The Shores of The Dead Sea | Paul L. Broughton | 421 |
| Tumbling | Robert W. Greenlaw | 374 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 377 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 386 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 404 | |
| July/August | Whole #418-419 | 49:7-8 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Sulfides and Sulphosalts in Pegmatite | David M. Seaman | 435 |
| Dinosaurland | Al Davis (The Geode) | 438 |
| A Neglected, Potential Silver Mine | Dr. Werner R. Eulitz | 451 |
| The Shuler Ruby Mine of the Cowee Valley, Western North Carolina | Paul L. Broughton | 394 |
| Tips on Lapidary | R. L. Poole | 471 |
| Seeing Through the, Earth | (University of Rochester) | 496 |
| Tumbling | Robert W. Greenlaw | 446 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 449 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 458 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 476 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 486 |
| Publications Recently Received | 488 | |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 491 |
| Swapping Corner | 498 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 500 | |
| Coming Events | 434, 497, | |
| 1974 Show, Bisbee, Arizona | 440 | |
| Indian Beggar Beads | Reg Taylor | 442 |
| Alexandrite | Russell Hassemer | 444 |
| Grotto of the Redemption | Janet Burkett | 456 |
| Plants That 'Eat' Gold | 477 | |
| Rocking With Safety | Mary Tripp | 489 |
| My Favorite Mineral, Garnet | Jock Hoeseler | 490 |
| September | Whole #420 | 49:9 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Mineral and Fossil Collecting Localities In Virginia | Palmer C. Sweet | 507 |
| Wyoming's Mystery Mummy | The T-Town Rockhound | 514 |
| Meteorites | (Mineral Minutes) | 516 |
| State Stones (Arkansas) | George Kosel | 540 |
| Chalcedony Pseudomorph After Coral or Agatized Coral | Harriet Call(Chips and Facets) | 561 |
| Fire Agate - The Rising Star of The West | Carleton E. McMackin | 566 |
| State Stones (Ohio) | George Kosel | 571 |
| Tumbling | Robert W. Greenlaw | 518 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 521 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 530 |
| Mineral Localities Informatics | 548 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 558 |
| Publications Recently Received | 560 | |
| Thumbnail's | John Reiner | 563 |
| Swapping Corner | 570 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 572 | |
| Coming Events | 506, 569, | |
| World Consumption of Industrial Minerals | 511 | |
| The Goldstone Story | 515 | |
| Florida Black Coral Jewelry | Emily Danker | 523 |
| Diamonds In Arkansas Hills | 528 | |
| 1974 Gem is Mineral Show | 535 | |
| Human Fossils | 538 | |
| Old Cook and Brown Gold Mine Open to Public | 549 | |
| October | Whole #421 | 49:10 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Diamonds | Mary Jean Dabulis | 579 |
| Why is Africa So Diamond Rich? | 585 | |
| The Evolution of A N. J. Collecting Site | Barry DeVita | 586 |
| News From The Black Hills of So. Dakota | Martha Linde | 590 |
| Additional Meteorites are Often Found at Site where one has Previously been discovered | Harry G. Johnson | 614 |
| Ricolite Gulch, New Mexico | Carleton E. McMackin | 638 |
| Tumbling | Robert W. Greenlaw | 589 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 593 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 602 |
| The Amateur Lapidary | Helen L. MacLeod | 610 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 620 | |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 630 |
| Publications Recently Received | 632 | |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 636 |
| Swapping Corner | 642 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 644 | |
| Coming Events | 578, 641 | |
| Sand-Barite Rosette - Oklahoma's Official State Rock | (The T-Town Rockhound) | 591 |
| How to Clean Your Pyrites | Rocky Echoes | 596 |
| $6,000 Gold Nugget Found Near City | Jan, O'Brien, Star Reporter, (Whitehorse, Yukon Star) | 600 |
| Faceting Is Fun | Herbert Olmstea The Agatizer Via ''Rock Rollers | 612 |
| Lapidary | Dorothy Sanders, Librarian | 613 |
| Handy Hints | T-Town Rockhound | 621 |
| Obituary (Ernest Weidhaas) | 634 | |
| Hunt For the Green (Jade, That Is) | Andy Stoner | 640 |
| November | Whole #422 | 49:11 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Obsidian Collecting At Oregon's Glass Buttes | Paul L. Broughton | 651 |
| Fossils Of The Bear, Delaware Area | Todd Zeisloft | 655 |
| Phosphorescent Selenite Crystals at Levesque, Arkansas | W. C. Riddle | 657 |
| Varieties Of Quartz | Virginia Burns | 662 |
| Ideas From Conan Doyle Offer Aid's For Meteorite, Discovery | Harry G. Johnson | 667 |
| Trilobite Eyes | Daniel E. Russell | 679 |
| Gold Diggers On Way | W. H. Scarborough | 682 |
| Selenite Crystals on Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | Dan Davidonis 'Gems' | 686 |
| Jewelry Making | Norma Beachkowski | 711 |
| Tumbling | Robert W. Greenlaw | 661 |
| Fossils | A. G. Zvirblis | 665 |
| Chips and Bits From EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 674 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 692 | |
| Publications Recently Received | 704 | |
| Thumbnail's | John Reiner | 708 |
| Swapping Corner | 715 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 716 | |
| Coming Events | 650, 717 | |
| Both Uranium and Oil Discovered In Vermont | 668 | |
| Handy Hints | 672 | |
| Soviet Geologist Discusses Problems of Probing the Earth | 680 | |
| Fluorescent Mineral Society Honors Tom Warren | 685 | |
| All That's Green is Not Valuable | 688 | |
| Soviet Diamonds Top, South Africa | 690 | |
| Gypsum - Natures Most Versatile Rock | 706 | |
| Rare Stones in Missouri Crater | 710 | |
| December | Whole #423 | 49:12 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| The Stanley Rock Crystal Claim on Fisher Mountain, Central Arkansas | Paul L. Broughton | 723 |
| Offretite | Donald J. Goodell | 729 |
| There's Opals in Them There Hills | The Australian Tourist Commission | 739 |
| Pearls and Pearl Hunting | Francine Valant (The T-Town Rockhound) | 752 |
| The Turkey Hill Mines | George Meyers | 754 |
| 'Salting' An Age - Old Practice | Robert G. Bassett | 756 |
| Earthquake Successfully Predicted | (California Geology November 1974) | 758 |
| Transparencies | Ted Schroeder (The Geode) | 762 |
| Lost Meteorites that defy Discovery, Guard their secrets in every State | Harry G. Johnson | 763 |
| Ambers and Its Imitators | (Gems) | 778 |
| A Mammoth Find! | Rocky Byrom (Rocky Echoes) | 781 |
| Far Northland's Offer Meteorite Hunters Adventure and Opportunities for new finds | Harry G. Johnson | 785 |
| Tumbling | Robert W. Greenlaw | 733 |
| Fossil | A. G. Zvirblis | 737 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clvbs | Vernon Wertz | 746 |
| The Micromounters Corner | Betty Lynch Williams | 774 |
| Publications Recently Received | 776 | |
| Thumbnails | John Reiner | 780 |
| Mineral Localities Information | 786 | |
| Swapping Corner | 787 | |
| Visiting Rockhounds Welcome | 788 | |
| Coming Events | 722, 775, | |
| Minerals that Glow in The Dark | (The T-Town Rockhound - Patricia Roebuck) | 728 |
| Offshore Oil | 732 | |
| Judge Ervan F. Kushner Presents Copies of New Book | 744 | |
| White Gold From Rustenburg | (South Africa Scope) | 783 |
| Uranium Marketing Activity | (California Geology - October 1974) | 784 |