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Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border

Ferry, Elizabeth Emma.

Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Emma Ferry. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (x, 235 pages :) illustrations ; - Tracking globalization .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.

Histories, mineralogies, economies -- Shifting stones : mineralogy and mineral collecting in Mexico and the United States -- Making scientific value -- Mineral collections and their minerals : building up U.S.-Mexican transnational spaces -- Making places in space : miners and collectors in Guanajuato and Tucson -- Mineral marketplaces, arbitrage, and the production of difference.

9780253009487


Mineral industries--Social aspects.
Rock collectors.
Minerals--Collection and preservation--Mexico.
Minerals--Collection and preservation--United States.


Mexico--Commerce--United States.
United States--Commerce--Mexico.


Electronic books.

QE392.5.U5 / F47 2013

382/.45549972