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Mineralogy LinksLinks for Mineralogists, Würzburg University, Germany. A very thorough set of links maintained by Klaus-Peter Kelber.
Mineralogical Society of America Web Resources
Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web. Andrea Koziol, University of Dayton
ATHENA MINERALOGY Links to Earth Sciences sites
YAHOO Mineralogy Directory
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. http://www.minersoc.org/
Mineralogical Society of America. http://www.minsocam.org/
Further lists: see the resource pages above.
Natural History Museum - Mineralogy
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/index.html
See lists of journal links at:
American Mineralogist http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/AmMineral.html
Canadian Mineralogist http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/mineral/mineralogist.html
European Journal of Mineralogy http://www.schweizerbart.de/j/ejm/
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00410/
Mineralogy and Petrology http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00710/
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00269/index.htm
Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology (SMPM) http://therion.minpet.unibas.ch/aliens/smpm/default.html
The Mineralogical Record http://www.minrec.org/index.html
Mineralogy
Database by David A Barthelmy
4339 individual mineral species, with
data, descriptions and links (Aug 2003).
Mindat.org by Jolyon Ralph.
Large database of minerals (>25000 claimed), localities, photographs.
MinMax - Mineral Information System
ATHENA
Mineralogy, Switzerland
Mineral database sorted either alphabetically or systematically, also
a search program for mineral names (including varieties) and mineral
formula for elements or element groups.
American
Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Contains data for all mineral structural determinations published in American
Mineralogist, Canadian Mineralogist and European Journal of Mineralogy.
Earth Lab Datasite Natural History Museum (London), rock, mineral and fossil database
The Mineral Gallery, Amethyst Galleries, Inc. "The First
Internet Rock Shop!"
http://mineral.galleries.com/default.htm
A collection of mineral descriptions and images including searchable
mineralogical data, plus other information of interest. Inline GIF
images (size about 10k) usually are linked to larger JPEG images
(averaging 30k).
The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom:
http://www.minerals.net/
An interactive guide to Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones. designed,
created, and maintained by Hershel Friedman.
Mineral Gallery, theimage.com
http://www.theimage.com/mineral/minerals1.html
Gallery of mineral specimen images, quite extensive.
WebMineral : Atlas minéralogique. (in French)
http://webmineral.brgm.fr:8003/mineraux/Main.html
Excellent illustrated mineral database.
Museum of Mineralogy, Ecole de Mines de Paris
http://cri.ensmp.fr/mineral
A large catalogue. Crystallographic data are given, and illustrations
are available for about half the minerals.
The Clausthal Mineral Collection
http://www.immr.tu-clausthal.de/labs/mincoll.html
Photographs (ca. 93 of them!) from the famous Clausthal Mineral
Collection.
Big new catalogue in German at
http://www.immr.tu-clausthal.de/labs/mineral/catalog/welcome.htm
Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection via the University of Bremen
Search the Smithsonian mineral collections
Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore Minerals in their
Associations
Sponsored by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration
http://www.smenet.org/opaque-ore/
Museums with mineralogical collections, in particular those with illustrative or interactive content.
Natural History Museum (London) - Mineralogy
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/index.html
Oxford University Museum of Natural
History
Some searchable online collections, some online displays. Watch this space.
Worth
Publishers, Geologylink: Chapter 2, Minerals.
Links to Mineralogy course materials.
Jeremy's
Mineral Quizzer
This is an electronic way of testing and/or improving your working
knowledge of mineral names and their formulas.
Crystallography
and Mineral Crystal Systems
Mike Howard & Darcy Howard, Bob´s Rock Shop: An illustrated,
nine-part primer on crystallography and mineral crystal systems.
Introduction
to Crystal Structures
University of Queensland. Uses VRML demonstrations. [Not found Sept
98]
Crystallographic
CourseWare
Symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units etc.
Margaret E. Kastner, Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University.
Crystal
structures of silicates
Darmstadt Technical University Chemistry Dept.
The
Web Accessible Diffractometer
More than a simple demonstration of technology, this site provides a
useful tool for teaching and doing X-ray diffraction at places that
don't have the necessary equipment.
Teaching
Diffraction with the Aid of Computer Simulations
Thomas Proffen & Reinhard Neder, Department of Crystallography,
Munich, Germany. Also available via
Research
School of Chemistry, Canberra, Australia and
Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Great Britain
X-Ray
Diffraction
Wilson Group, University of California, San Diego. Main chapters are:
Introduction to diffraction, how diffraction works, crystals, and
other techniques in diffraction.
Research,
teaching, and fun in Optical Mineralogy from Mickey Gunter,
University of Idaho
Mineralogy
and Optical Mineralogy. Course home page.
Minerals
under the microscope
Optical mineralogy teaching aid from the University of Bristol, based
on the OU virtual microscope and the UKESCC Optical Mineralogy
module, with explanations of colour and pleochroism, interference
colours, extinction angle, relief, opacity, etc.
Geological
Software. from Erlangen, Germany
Mainly for Windows and much of it relating to X-ray mineralogy, but
growing into a very useful software archive for mineralogical and
structural programs.
ATHENA SCIENCE, Scientific Shareware. Annotated list.
Bob's Rock Shop software page
Software
for Rockhounds. Mineral database and identification software.
Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium:
Mineralogy
Software. Annotated index to some mineralogy, gemmology and
crystallography software.
Links for Mineralogists: Rock Hounding ...
Bob's Rock Shop
http://www.rockhounds.com/
The Norwegian Rockhound
http://www.uio.no/~hansjb/index.html
Canadian Rockhound
http://pangea.usask.ca/~dfs846/rockhound/home.html
An internet magazine with articles. No subscription necessary.
Association Française de Microminéralogie
http://cri.ensmp.fr/afm
French Association of Micromineralogy), maintained by Philippe Saget
Links for Mineralogists: Gemology
GEMMOLOGY WORLD: Canadian
Institute of Gemmology
Includes electronic library of gems, virtual store, electronic
magazine,etc..
Gemology and Lapidary pages by John F. Miller, hosted by
Tradeshop Inc.
http://www.tradeshop.com/gems/Index.html
and also at
http://www.teleport.com/~raylc/gems/index.html
Gemology
Stuff
- information-rich site, of former mineral dealership. By Jamie
Foster.
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