(MATERIALS) Geology History
Last Updated on 08/27/26
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Division: Museum
Museum Item Type: 71
Description
Bag includes books and rock samples.
BOOKS:
- Minerals, Metals, and Rocks
- The Juneau Gold Belt and Juneau Mining History
- Traditional Tlingit Uses of Stone (Té)
- Let’s Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans, illustrated by Holly Keller
- A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
- Jump into Science: Rocks & Minerals, by Steve Tomecek, illustrated by Kyle Poling (National Geographic Kids)
- Rich Earth: Alaska’s Mineral Industry (AK Geographic)
- The Golden Gamble (AK Geographic)
- Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
OBJECTS:
Box of Rock Samples: (9 total rocks) Includes:
- diorite
- greywacke sandstone
- gold (quartz/pyrite: real gold is extracted from pyrite at Kensington Mine)
- schist
- 2 pieces of granite
- basalt
- quartz
- slate`
- The Alaska Resources Kit Rock and Mineral Specimens (Collection of 40 Specimens with 15 informational posters) / Scott Resources, Inc.
OTHER RESOURCES:
- Poster: From the Mine to My Home,
- Poster: Rocks and Minerals and How We Use Them
- Poster: From Mountains to Metals
- Poster: Mineral Resources: Out of the Ground…Into Our Daily Lives
- Treadwell Mine Historic Trail Walking Tour Map & Historic Guide.