Various Mineral Databases and Sites
Mineral Databases
There are quite a few WWWebsites dedicated to data
for individual minerals, many listed alphabetically. So, you can access
different minerals by checking out these links!!
The first site is the well-known Athena Mineralogy site
- one of the best. Other good sites include:
the Mineral
Database site and the Mineral
and Gemstone Kingdom . This site is from Univ. of Wisconsin
Another set of
mineral tables - although this Mineral galleries site is very slow
Here is a link for a wonderful Mineral Encyclopedia with more data than you will ever use!!
Here’s another link with good images of different minerals (busily commercial – but nice pics and info)
Other Helpful
Mineral Tables and such
Mineral tables
from
Or for GeoMan's interactive lists and flowcharts for
identifying rocks and minerals
Whattheheck - The Ask GeoMan site is just a fun and instructive site!!
The Mineral
Database mineral tables.
Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
There are many other interesting sites such as:
The Rockhounds Information Page which offers many cool
things.
A Mineral Collector's Page
which is fairly nice.
The Mineralogical
Society of America home page with links to all sorts of stuff.
Dr. Richard Dietrich has put together a great page on Gem Rocks to explore as you
will. Be sure to look way at the top for other links to interesting
minerals and rocks.
Would you like info on how to Grow Crystals?
Even the French mineral magazine Le Regne Mineral if you parlez the vous francais!
Just Added –
Fluorescent Minerals!!
Or the
Ken, Mark and Lewie show!
Lewie's Fluorescent Mineral Page
And yet another! – this one found also on the Mineral Encyclopedia page.
And, lastly, this link to: The Virtual Museum of the History of Mineralogy - http://www.mineralogy.be/
Enjoy!!