Alkali-Nuts: Mont Saint-Hilaire
An excellent website on the minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire in Québec. This site has a complete list and description of all minerals found at this famous locality.
The Australian Mineral Collector
Australia's top internet magazine for collectors of minerals, fossils and gemstones. This e-zine includes articles related to Australian mineralogy, a mineral specimen photo gallery, a calendar of upcoming Australian gem and mineral shows, home pages of the mineralogical societies, and a complete list of lapidary clubs in Australia.
Ben Clement Mineral Museum
This museum, located in Marion, Kentucky, houses the largest fluorite mineral collection in the world. The website includes an online tour of the museum.
Bjørn's Mineral Web
This site contains information on minerals and mineral collecting in Norway.
Clausthal Mineral Collection
Home page of the famous Clausthal Mineral Collection in Germany. This online database includes photographs of mineral specimens from around the world.
Cyberwall - Rock Collecting in Canada
This page lists mineral localities in Ontario and Québec. Includes a brief discussion on the Bancroft region.
Daniel Comtois Québec Minerals
Website devoted to minerals from Québec. Featured are the Mont Saint-Hilaire and Asbestos mineral localities. This site contains articles and high quality mineral photographs from Daniel Comtois' mineral collection. The site is graphic-intensive, but is worth visiting.
Kristalle
Eine virtuelle Kristall- und Mineraliensammlung. An excellent, and well organized website on minerals from Switzerland.
Links for Mineralogists
Links to internet resources related to mineralogy and crystallography. Page maintained by the University of Würzburg Institute of Mineralogy, Germany.
Mineral Collecting in Bancroft
Bancroft Chamber of Commerce information on mineral collecting in Bancroft, Ontario. A website worth visiting.
Mineral Collectors Page
New home page of the Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium. This site contains a list of European clubs, and extensive information of interest to mineral collectors.
Mineralogy Database
This mineral database contains more than 5,000 pages of mineral data, and the descriptions of 3,874 individual mineral species. Minerals are organized by Dana and Strunz classification systems, and an alphabetical listing of all mineral species is available as well.
The Mineralogy of Nova Scotia
An excellent website on the minerals and mineral localities found in Nova Scotia, Canada. This site, maintained by Ronnie Van Dommelen, a member of the Canadian Mineral Society, includes excellent photographs of common minerals found in the province. Collectors will find the content presented both useful and interesting.
Minéraux Fluorescents
This site contains a gallery of photos showing how various minerals appear when they fluoresce under ultraviolet light. Each fluorescent image of a mineral is accompanied by a photo of what it looks like under normal light.
MINFILE - B.C. Mineral Inventory
Maintained by the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines. MINFILE contains geological, location and economic information on over 11,900 metallic, industrial mineral and coal mines, deposits and occurrences in British Columbia.
Museum of Québec Minerals
This site features the Poudrette and the Demix quarries in Mont St. Hilaire and the Francon quarry in St. Michel., Québec. An online database allows you to find information about the minerals from the quarries. Includes photographs.
Neil and Sue's Rocks and Minerals
This New Zealand site contains an online gallery of New Zealand micro-minerals.
Norwegian Rock & Mineral Guide
This site is a complete guide of everybody and everything in Norway that has to do with geology, rocks, minerals, fossils. The site contains a list of activities, museums, shops, shows, fee-collecting sites, new finds, articles, mineral occurences, books, software, and web links in Norway.
Pacific Mineral Museum
Canada's newest mineralogical museum has opened in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Pacific Mineral Museum's exhibits not only feature specimens from its own collection, but also from UBC's former M.Y. Williams Geological Museum collection.
RBmineral
This website, based in Stuttgart, Germany, has interesting photographs of microminerals from the Grube Clara, Oberwolfach. Worth a look.
Rockhounding Arkansas
Website devoted to rockhounding in Arkansas. This site has detailed and useful information on Arkansas' minerals, such as quartz, diamond, wavellite, and dolomite. This site includes other useful information, such as building and maintaining a mineral collection.
Turning Lead into Gold
The story of crocoite and other lead minerals of Tasmania, Australia. Written and electronically published by Steve Sorrell, 1999.
Washington State Rockhounding
This website contains information on several mineral localities in Washington State, including the Spruce Claim.
Würzburg Institute of Mineralogy
The University of Würzburg Institute of Mineralogy contributes significantly to a modern training of geoscience students.
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