The book offered to readers by the famous West German mineralogist Professor Walter Schumann "Rocks and Minerals" is a popular guide to the vast and diverse world of minerals. In a simple and accessible form, the author talks about mineral and rock-forming processes in the earth's crust, the properties of mineral matter and methods for studying it, gives brief characteristics of the main minerals, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, fossil remains (fossils).