Speciality Mineral Sites

These mineralogy links highlight those site that specialize in mineral data. The category of subgroups focused on minerals and mineral data.

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Other Mineral Sites

Other sites have mineral information published in bulletin, magazine or digital 'zine format. Also on this list are Important mineralogical resources which use digital effects to illustrate mineral concepts which do not fit with the links provided for the mineralogy data or database categories.

	Association Française de Microminéralogie (French Association of Micromineralogy).  They offer an English Version or a French Version of their site.
	American Mineralogist is the bi-monthly bulletin of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA).
	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 United States and Canada’s provinces and territories with their official minerals, rocks, stones, and gems.
	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 in the ILL's ICSD-for-WWW database.
	IUMSC Data Server Indiana University Molecular Structure Center. Their Java programming efforts for crystallography and molecular models is quite informative.
	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 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, and 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.
	Mineral Town is a Spanish site (with an English version) for collectors of rocks, gems and minerals with articles, reports, trade zone, & etc. for the mineral enthusiast.
	Mr Bismuth (Udo J.A. Behner) has lab-grown bismuth crystals for sale. There is also a lot of information for those people who are interested in growing crystals. For the German version of his site, click here.
	Rockhounds Information Page was a good, all-around site with many links. It is not currently being maintained so watch out for bad 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 rock hounding, minerals and mineral collecting, fossils, lapidary, gems, faceting, and geology in general.
	The Mineralogical Record is the website of the finest mineral specimen magazine. Visit Thomas P. Moore's section on "what's new in the mineral world" for the latest information on collecting.