Index to Mineral Links
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- WWW Sites with Mineralogy Data
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- Other Sites with Mineralogy Information
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WWW Sites with Mineralogy Data.
 | Alkali-Nuts contains information on the minerals and environment surrounding Mont Saint-Hilaire (MSH), Quebec. Located 40 kilometers to the East of Montreal, in Rouville County, MSH has become a classic collecting site and one of the most prolific current sources of rare mineral species. To date, approximately 300 species have been identified from Mont Saint-Hilaire, of which several are new to science with several undetermined minerals still being investigated. |
| Alphabetical Mineral Reference from the University of Wisconsin mineral database. |
| ATHENA MINERALOGY presents Pierre Perroud's searchable database. This site contains mineral name, formula, and systematic listings of all known species. |
| Bob's Rock Shop contains software and data for MinDat32 (Joycon Ralph) and MinDB (Mike Mcormack). |
| Carbonate-Bearing Minerals: by L. Bruce Railsback, Department of Geology, University of Georgia. This is a listing of all known carbonate-bearing minerals for which names have been approved by the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. |
| Ecole des Mines de Paris contains extensive listings of name origins and scientific references of mineral species. |
| Franklin Minerals provides a complete listing of the unique minerals found at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. Many of these minerals fluoresce in vivid colors when viewed with an ultraviolet light. Visit the "Fluorescent Gallery" to see them. |
| Frederic Biret's Mineralogy has complete listings for crystallographic information on thousands of minerals along with physical and optical properties. |
| Le monde des minéraux "The world of minerals" consists of approximately 3500 species. Microscopic or gigantic, these crystals are encased in rock for millions years, even billions years, before we view them. This site reports the history of thousand and one minerals which shaped the destiny of man. |
| Minerals between the Big-bang and stars by Yves Isabelle (in French) contains Characteristics: Cleavage, Colors, Density, Luster, Elemental Formulae, Chemical Properties, Synonyms, System, Transparency, and Uses. |
| MinMax is a complete Mineral-Information-System; a database of Minerals and Mineral collecting locations. For the German version of this site click here. |
| theImage is dedicated to high quality video imaging and scanning, with an emphasis on minerals, gemstones, microscopy, and tutorials. Their well laid-out site contains many images of minerals and gemstones along with pertinent data. |
| The Mineral Gallery has a searchable mineral database. They also feature minerals for sale. |
| The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom is an online reference to minerals and gemstones. |
| University of Bremen Mineral cabinet is currently displaying 272 specimens of common minerals taken from the collection of the Department of Mineralogy/Petrography. For the German version of this site click here. |
| Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore Minerals is sponsered by the Society of Mining Engineers (SME). |
| WebMineral is a
mineralogical atlas created by BRGM with the assistance
of the Ministry of National Higher Education with consultation with the National Natural
History Museum of Paris. This is a Java based website with nice mineral pictures that has
an, unfortunetly, painfully slow connection to the internet from my location.
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Commercial Sites with Digital Mineralogy Data.
| Aleph Enterprises and the CSIRO Division of Mineral Products are offering for sale the Windows and Macintosh versions of MINERAL, a computerized mineral reference book in a PC database format containing data for more than 4800 minerals. |
| GEOLIB is a ShareWare Mineralogical database that contains all minerals approved by the IMA, mineral systematics, literature references, variant names, and a cataloging system for your collection, with automatic reference to mineral. |
| International Centre for Diffraction Data is the primary database for current mineralogical research with their PDF-2 Powder Diffraction File. This is a collection of single-phase X-ray powder diffraction patterns in the form of tables of interplanar spacings (d) and relative intensities (Int) and chemical name and formula as well as mineral name, if applicable. In addition, Miller indices, cell data and physical properties are listed, together with references for source information, where such data are available. This is the most expensive database on minerals (contains lots of information of non-mineral crystalline compounds) currently available. The CD-ROM contains only the database; retrieval software is sold separately on the appropriate medium for your computer. |
| Manual of Mineralogy (after James D. Dana), 21st Ed. by Cornelis Klein (Univ. of New Mexico) and Cornelius S. Hurlbut (Harvard Univ.). Now this widely acknowledged classic provides the foundation for an interactive, multimedia tutorial CD-ROM! The CD features color photographs of over 125 minerals; 3-D Models and Animations that permit users to view crystal symmetries, internal order, and molecular structure; and simulations, to illustrate basic principles of crystallography, crystal chemistry, and the systematic mineralogy of common rock-forming minerals. Chemical substitutions permit users to evaluate solid solution within crystal structure formulas, and hyperlinks link textual terms with graphic representation. |
| MatIdent (Systematik in der Mineralogie) is a Mineralogical Database used to identify minerals by using all types of analytical data obtained from mineral samples. It contains the most important chemical, physical, optical and X-ray diffraction data available anywhere for all of the approximately 4,200 minerals known to exist. |
| MinAbs by Peter Susse is a database drawn from the Mineralogical Abstracts. The 5th edition, 1997, covers - for the first time - all volumes of the Mineralogical Abstracts from the beginning, Vol. 1(1920/22), up to Vol. 48(1997). It contains about 20.000 mineral entries. MINABS may be very useful for scientists doing research in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, chemistry, geology, and gemology as well as for students, mineral collectors, mineralogical museums, and libraries. |
| MinIdent from Micronex is a software package aimed primarily at mineral identification on the basis of properties ranging from chemical composition to X-ray, optical and physical data (cell dimensions, hardness and density). The database includes detailed information on some 4760 minerals including many that are present in the literature but so far remain unnamed. |
| Mineral Database for sale from Geologyone.com. Your Site for Earth Science Software and Information. |
| Minerals of the World CD-ROM contains over 2750 mineral species with over 400 high res images of mineral samples and specimens. Minerals can be searched for or selected by name, classification, chemical content, or any other combination of features. . |
| The Mineral Database -- Version 3.0. Lanny Ream has for sale a fully searchable database of the physical characteristics of all approved minerals (over 3,800). The following characteristics are included: name, formula, system, group, color, opacity, luster, streak, hardness, density/sg, number of cleavages, cleavage description, fracture and tenacity, habit and general information (polymorphism, analogues, fluorescence, magnetism, etc.). His site also contains mineral news from Excalibur Mineral Company. |
| The Photo Atlas of Minerals is a windows CD-ROM featuring more than 6,500 high-resolution images, descriptive data for all known minerals, mineral name pronunciations (audio), origins of mineral names, Synonym and variety names, crystal forms, symmetry and twinning, mineral localities with index maps, modern Strunz mineral classification. glossary of mineral terminology, cross-indexes for easy searching, copy and print of images and data, and a mineral identification game. For sale from The Gem & Mineral Council of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. |
| The Study of Minerals is a
comprehensive learning tool for anyone interested in minerals. Learn about how crystals
form, their symmetry, chemical composition, and properties. Includes animated interactive
activities, illustrated glossary, abundant photographs, video clips, and easy access to an
extensive illustrated mineral properties database of over 150 minerals.
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Other Sites with Mineral Information.
| Association Française de Microminéralogie (French Association of Micromineralogy). They offer an English Version or a French Version of their site. The goal of the AFM is to encourage the work and the activity of the enthusiastic people in the micromineralogy field. We hope that we can contribute to a future international network of mineralogy by sharing information about all aspects of this science. |
| American Mineralogist Home Page |
| Bob's Rock Shop is a mineral 'zine with many links to other rockhound or mineral topics. |
| Geobopological Survey features directions to articles about geosymbols adopted all of the fifty states and Canada’s provinces and territories with their official minerals, rocks, stones, and gems. Fossils are listed only if they were designated as official stones, gems, etc. |
| Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) is a fundamental research institute operating a high-flux reactor with many experimental facilities. They use VRML to illustrate the 3D structures of inorganic materials in the ILL's ICSD-for-WWW database. The database is used by scientists at the European High Flux Reactor, Synchrotron and elsewhere for studying the atomic structure of materials. |
| IUMSC Data Server Indiana University Molecular Structure Center. Their Java programming efforts for crystallography and molecular models is quite informative. See GEOLIB for similar efforts in Java programming. |
| Lapis is a german-language Mineral Magazine for Lovers and Collectors of Minerals and Gems. They have provided both German and English versions of an index of the magazine articles. |
| Le Regne Mineral is a french-language Mineral Magazine devoted to mineralogy, geology and paleontology. In their website software section, they feature the neatest crystallographic shape-drawing shareware program called Faces (version 3.5) by Georges Favreau. |
| Mineralogical Association of Canada in addition to regular bi-monthly articles on minerals, publishes the IMA listing of approved minerals in their journal, "The Canadian Mineralogist." You can browse the abstracts on-line. |
| Mineralogisches Institut Würzburg has a site maintained by Klaus-Peter Kelber. He has annotated links to internet resources, especially for mineralogists, petrologists, crystallographers, geologists. If you can't find the mineral information you want here then it probably does not exist on the web. |
| Mineral Collectors Page from the Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium bringing information relevant to mineral collectors, with lots of links to other mineralogy or earth science related sites. |
| Rockhounds Information Page is a good, all-around site with many links. |
| Steffen Weber's homepage has DOS software, Introduction to Quasicrystals, JAVA applets, Wireframe Polyhedra, JAVA applications, Crystal gallery and other miscellaneous stuff. This is a great site to help visualize many of the concepts of crystallography |
| The Canadian Rockhound is a free online internet magazine providing articles and stories on rockhounding, minerals and mineral collecting, fossils, lapidary, gems, faceting, and geology in general. |
| The Mineralogical Record finally has a home page.
Visit this site to learn about one of the finest mineral specimen magazines.
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Featured Site In:
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Alkali-Nuts |
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European Journal of Mineralogy Links Section |
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Vote for this site. "GeoSearch Top of the 'Net" |
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Internet Scout Project Scout Report Selection |
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Mineralogical Society of America |
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Momma's Minerals in Cyberspace |
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Peter W. Harben, Inc., Industrial Minerals Consultants |
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Rockhounding Arkansas |
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Suite 101 Recommended Site. |
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The Canadian Rockhound |
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