The Best Stone Fact Books I found so far
Last week I was scouting around Amazon.com to search for "Love is In the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals" by Melody handbook .
The woman at the Health fair reccomended this book for all facts (physical, spiritual, etc) on every and every stone in existance. I noticed that other folks in other stone booths at the fair also had the same book-- pages all worn and bookmarked, so you can tell this book is a popular handbook with rock specialist folks.
I found it at a great deal at Amazon, so I ended up ordering it. I'm not dissapointed-- it has every practical fact about every stone created- what each can do for the physical body and emotions; what influences they have when worn, etc.
For a book that would have pictures to go with the stones, I ordered "The Crystal Bible: A Definitive Guide to Crystals" by Judy Hall. The photos are very high quality in this book, and it also has good stone info for each.
It would be interesting if one would go through the Holy Bible and record each stone mentioned--- especially the stones described that are embedded in the gates or walls in Heaven, and read up the properties of each.
I recall Jasper mentioned somewhere in the Bible- and will check that out soon.