This valuable booklet, now hard to find in secondhand bookstores, used to be available online on Peter Thornton’s website [www.peterthornton.com/files/nzgemstones.pdf]. I briefly reviewed it in TumbleStone Blog back in 2016 (see here) and have often referred to it, for example, in Posts on Gemstone Beach and Slope Point. However, I noticed a few weeks ago that it was no longer available. I have managed to find two alternative ways to access it online.
The first (and probably the best) is via an information site on Tuatapere, a town not far from Gemstone Beach. The site is called “On Natures Edge – Tuatapere” and its “What’s Here” section has a brief page on Gemstone Beach www.onnaturesedge.co.nz/tuatapere/whats-here/gemstone-beach. This page has a link to Thornton’s booklet (see below). Clicking on the link brings up a pdf file of the booklet, the same file as used to be available on Peter Thornton’s website. By clicking here, you can go directly to the pdf.
The second alternative source is through StudyLib.net (see below) – click here. It can take a little time to load, and initially the pages look small, but it appears to be a good reproduction. You can scroll down through the pages within the file, and can zoom in to a size that suits you. The links in the Contents page are shortcuts to other pages, as in the pdf file in “On Nature’s Edge”.
Note that the booklet itself contains 74 pages, each side of each sheet being numbered. The pdf files, however, counts two facing pages as only one page, reducing the page numbers by half.
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