Terms
The Crystal Hunter's Bible is published by Mysteries Group LLC. Buying from this site means you accept what is written below. If any of it does not suit you, do not buy — and if you already have, the refund section is unconditional and takes one email.
What you are buying
The Crystal Hunter's Bible is a digital book: one PDF of 233 pages, fourteen chapters and two appendices, delivered by email to the address you enter at checkout. The Bench Sheets, the optional add-on, is a second PDF of 14 pages — ten print-and-pin sheets plus a cover and a page on how to use them — laid out for US Letter printing, with the sources printed on the sheet they belong to. Don't Put It in the Bucket Yet is a free PDF of 19 pages sent to anyone who asks for it. Nothing is shipped, there is no physical edition, and no subscription is created by any purchase on this site.
Each file is licensed to you personally, for your own use, on as many of your own devices as you like. You may print any of them for yourself, and the sheets are meant to be printed and photocopied for your own bench. You may not resell them, republish them, post them for download, or distribute copies.
Delivery
The download link appears on screen the moment payment completes and is emailed within a minute. If it has not arrived in five minutes, look in the spam folder. If it is still missing, write to mysteriesmediallc@gmail.com and it goes out by hand the same day. Keep the delivery email: it is how you get back to the files if you change devices.
Refunds — the First Specimen Guarantee
Take one piece you already own. Run chapter 7 to name it by its habit, and chapter 10 to decide what is allowed to touch it. If the book does not change what you were about to do to that specimen, reply to your receipt or write to mysteriesmediallc@gmail.com within 60 days of purchase and you get every cent back.
No form, no questions, and you keep the file. A PDF cannot be handed back, and pretending otherwise would be theater. The refund covers The Bench Sheets as well, whether they were taken at checkout or bought afterwards.
Refunds are returned to the card used, through Stripe, and usually appear within five to ten business days depending on the bank. Payments are processed by Stripe; this site never sees or stores your card details.
Editions and updates
This is a first edition, dated. The revision date is printed at the front of the book itself rather than buried in a colophon, because in a subject where the numbers come out of regulations and safety data sheets, the date is part of the information. Corrections and figures that have moved go into the next revision, which carries a new date.
Nothing reaches you automatically: there is no update list and no notification, and buying subscribes you to nothing. If you want to know whether a later revision exists, write and ask. If you find something wrong — a figure that has moved, a citation that does not lead where it says it leads, a safety data sheet that has been reissued with different chemistry — send the page and, if you have it, the source. Every one of those is read, and the ones that hold change the page.
What this book is not
- It is not an appraisal, a valuation or a gemological certification. No dollar figure for any specimen appears anywhere in it, and none will be supplied by email either. What a specimen is worth depends on its size, its species, the condition of its terminations, how much matrix it kept and how much damage it took, so any fixed number would be invented. Nothing here is a substitute for having a piece looked at by somebody qualified with the piece in front of him.
- It is not professional chemical-safety, industrial-hygiene or occupational-health advice. It quotes exposure limits, safety data sheets and conservation guidance with their citations and the dates they were read so that you can read the source yourself rather than take a summary on trust. It is not a workplace exposure assessment, it is not a respirator program, and nobody who worked on it has inspected your workshop, your ventilation or your equipment.
- It is not legal advice. Nobody who worked on it is your attorney. Appendix A is a short appendix on who answers the question of whether a piece was yours to carry off, and it ends by telling you to phone the office that manages that specific ground, because that call is the only thing that settles it. It is deliberately not a permissions system.
- It is not a list of places to go. There are no localities, no coordinates and no land-access strategy in it, by decision and not by omission.
- It does not teach lapidary finishing. There is no abrasive sequence, no speed, no elapsed time and no polishing compound in these pages, because no source consulted for the book publishes any of them. It takes you to a sawn face and stops there, and it says so on the page rather than implying otherwise.
- It does not promise you a crystal. Not stated and not implied. Nobody has published what fraction of these things are hollow, so nobody can honestly quote odds, and the book says so in its first chapter.
Chemicals, dust and tools — the notices that matter here
These are repeated on this page because the book repeats them, and because this is the part of the hobby where a mistake is measured in hospitals rather than in specimens.
- Acid goes into water, never water into acid. The reverse can throw acid out of the container.
- Never mix cleaning chemicals. A rust remover of the type this hobby uses liberates toxic gas on contact with acid, and the manufacturer's own safety data sheet says so three separate times. Read the label on the bottle in your hand: two products with almost the same name have carried different chemistry in different years, and no video from an earlier year governs what is in your jug today.
- Oxalic acid is poisonous and is absorbed through the skin. Heavy gloves and splash-rated eye protection, outdoors or with real ventilation, never inside the house — and never near a piece carrying sulfides, where acid is simply not used at all.
- Neutralize and dispose of used solution properly, and never re-use that container for anything else.
- Cutting and grinding stone releases respirable crystalline silica, and silicosis is irreversible. Cutting wet reduces exposure substantially and does not by itself put you under the federal permissible limit; more than half the measured wet-cut samples in the federal study exceeded it. Control the dust at the source, wet the piece before cutting, use extraction or work in open air, never sweep dry, and treat a respirator as the last line rather than the plan — a respirator that is genuinely protecting anybody comes with a fit test and a medical evaluation.
- Eye protection has a rating and it is printed on the lens and the frame. Chiselling and striking need the higher impact rating, not the lower one. Struck tools with mushroomed heads shatter and throw fragments at the user, so a chisel gets dressed down when it starts to crack and curl rather than once it already looks like a mushroom.
- Never run a diamond blade dry, and match the coolant to the machine — the two are not interchangeable.
Collecting and land
This book is about the object after you already have it, but the question of whether it was yours to take comes up anyway, so here is the short version. Recreational rock and mineral collecting is generally prohibited in units of the National Park System, with no de minimis exception. On Bureau of Land Management land, 43 CFR 8365.1-5(b)(2) lets the public collect reasonable amounts of rocks, mineral specimens and semiprecious gemstones for noncommercial purposes, and no weight stands behind that phrase — the 25 pounds a day and 250 pounds a year everybody quotes are codified for petrified wood, and the agency's own documents disagree about whether they govern anything else. The Forest Service devolves the real rule to the individual forest, so "the Forest Service allows it" is never an answer. Where a mining claim is in force the claimant holds the right to the minerals, so a piece collected there was not yours to take without his consent — and claims are not always marked on the ground in a way you would recognize. Private land means the owner's permission, always. Rules change and local exceptions exist that no book can carry: the agency that administers a piece of ground is the only authority on what you may do there, and confirming with that office is the step the book tells you to take.
How the book was made
It was assembled from published sources with the assistance of artificial intelligence, and not from anyone's time at a bench. Nobody connected with it claims to have opened, cut or cleaned anything. Every load-bearing claim carries a named source and the date it was read, every chapter closes with a source list, and Appendix B is the dated record of what this edition decided not to claim.
Liability
The book is sold as information. To the fullest extent the law allows, Mysteries Group LLC is not liable for any loss, injury, illness or damage arising from decisions taken on the basis of it — including any decision to strike, cut, grind, soak, treat, store or dispose of a specimen or a chemical, any decision about ventilation or protective equipment, any identification made without a qualified person examining the specimen, and any decision to enter or collect from a piece of ground. You are responsible for your own safety, for the safety of anybody else in the room, for handling and disposing of chemicals lawfully, and for confirming the rules that apply where you are standing.
Contact
Mysteries Group LLC · mysteriesmediallc@gmail.com. Replies within two business days, and faster if something you paid for has not arrived.