Our Favorites

• Ted Smith's ORES Mineralogy page- has a lot of good info on mailing lists, newsgroups, links, software, and publications. A really nice site.
• Northwest Art Group- If you like unique artwork, chainsaw carvings, and other Pacific Northwest "Neat Stuff", then you'll love this place.

Museum Mineral Collections

• Hunterian Museum Rocks and Minerals
• Museum of Mineralogy - Ecole des mines, Paris
• The Museum of Paleontology
• Natural History Museum at Berne, Switzerland
• Smithsonian Institute Mineral Image Collection- Web Page
• Institute for Mineralogy and Mineral Resources at the Tech. Univ. of Clausthal in Germany

US Mineral Information By State

• The Carolina Geological Society- meeting and publication information.
• New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
• New Mexico Museum of Natural History
• New Mexico Tech Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
• New Mexico Technical Library
• New Mexico Tourism Information on the WWW
• New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI)
• Maps of New Mexico- courtesy the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Minnesota DNR Minerals Division
• Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies- For the lapidary. Good workshops, etc.

International Mineral Information and Images

• The Geological Society of America- page contains meeting and publication information.
• Australian Geological Survey.
• Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium- Mineral Collectors Page, including The Virtual Quarry, a non-commercial classified advertising service.
• The Geological Survey of Canada
• Dutch Mineral Association, GEODE- information on several great European collecting localities, as well as some good links to other sites.
• French Micromount Association Page- sponsored by the French Association of Micromineralogy.
• Norwegian Rockhound

College and University Collections

• University of Calgary in Canada-Earth Sciences page
• Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
• Science Displays at Goshen College
• University of Kansas- Explorer Home Page
• New Mexico Tech Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
• University of Sheffield, UK- Department of Earth Sciences- This site has a lot of good geology-type links.
• Thomas Edison Rock Collection at Wayne State University
• The University of Wisconsin Department of Geology and Geophysics

Pages Of Interest To Rockhounds

• Dino Russ's Lair, the "Earthnet Info Server". This site has a fine catalog of web pages for earth science and geology type stuff.
• Sandra and David Downs' Cyberwall- lists many collecting localities and scenic geologic features in the eastern United States.
• Ken's Fluorescent Minerals
• Doug McDonald's Searchable Mineral Database
• Mineral Collector's Page
• Picture Rocks Arizona Rockhound Page
• Rockhounds Information Page
• Rock Collecting

Rock, Gem & Mineral Show Information

• Las Vegas International Gem & Jewelry Show - 1999
• Tucson Gem and Mineral Show - 1999

Mineral Science Related

• Geologic Time Machine
• Scarns and Scarn Deposits
• Study of Metal Sulfide Mineral Surfaces Using Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• Testing Hardness of a Mineral
• University of Wisconsin-Madison 'Gems and Precious Stones' On-line Class

Collectors Personal Homepages

• Kenneth Colosky's Fluorescent Mineral Page- Nice page dealing mostly with fluorescence.
• Guy Hammer's home page. A must see!
• Norwegian Rockhound-Mineral images as well as a lot of useful links to other web pages.
• The Picture Rocks Arizona Rockhound
• Ted Smith's ORES Mineralogy page -has a lot of good info on mailing lists, newsgroups, links, software, and publications.

Gemology Information

• Canadian Institute of Gemology -contains a wealth of information including courses, shows, books and newsletters.
• The University of Wisconsin Department of Geology and Geophysics-Online Class - "Gems and Precious Stones"

Organizations

• Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium- Mineral Collectors Page
• Canadian Institute of Gemology contains a wealth of information including courses, shows, books and newsletters.
• The Carolina Geological Society- meeting and publication information.
• Dutch Mineral Association, GEODE information on several great European collecting localities, as well as some good links to other sites.
• French Micromount Association Page, sponsored by the French Association of Micromineralogy.
• The Geological Society of America- This page has meeting and publication information.
• Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies- For the lapidary. Good workshops, etc.

Earth and Geoscience Sites

• American Geophysical Union
• Australian Geological Survey Organisation
• The Geological Society of America
• The Geological Survey of Canada
• Online Resources for Earth Scientists: Mineralogy and Mining Resources
• Online Resources for Earth Scientists (ORES)
• Scott's Earth Science Site of the Week
• Seismo-surfing the Internet
• The Soft Earth
• Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Sheffield
• USGS Mineral Resource Surveys Program contains mineral resource information as well as several links to other sites.
• Virtual Earth- a tour of the world wide web for earth scientists.

Pages for Gold Prospectors

• Bullion Bob's
• Gold Prospecting
• Minin' Gold

Images of Rocks, Mountains, and Other Neat Stuff

• A collection of New Mexico Photographs by Philip Greenspun
• Geology of Utah
• Images of Utah
• UUSS Images

Mines and Mining Information

• Info-Mine
• MineNet

USENET groups

• sci.geo.earthquakes
• sci.geo.fluids
• sci.geo.geology
• sci.engr.geomechanics
• sci.geo.hydrology
• sci.geo.petroleum

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