Useful Web Links

Local

• Rockwood Gem and Mineral Society, St. Louis, Missouri
• Association of Missouri Geologists
• Mozarkite Society Missouri (will be soon)

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Agencies / Organizations

• United States Geological Survey
• The Mineralogical Society of America

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Databases

• David Barthelmy’s Mineralogy Database
• Mindat.org
• Athena mineral database (Pierre Perroud, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
• The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
• Through Mineralogical Society of America
• The Mineral Gallery, A service of Amethyst Galleries, Inc.
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (CA) County

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Crystallography Information and Databases

• Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems by Mike and Darcy Howard, Arkansas Geological Survey
• Escher Web Sketch by Wes Hardaker and Gervais Chapuis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
• David Barthelmy’s Mineralogy Database
• American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
• Indiana University Molecular Structure Center

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Images

• Mineral Gallery
• Jill Banfield's Gems and Gemology
• theImage Minerals
• Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan

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Other Useful Sites

• Klaus Peter Kelber’s (Mineralogy Institute, University of Würzburg, Germany) list of links to geology and mineralogy sites
• Prof. Andrea Koziol, University of Dayton
• Dr. S.J Heyes, Dept. of Chemistry, Oxford University
• Professor Ken Libbrecht’s (Physics Professor at Cal Tech) site on Snow Crystals
• Bob's Rock Shop Bob Keller’s “Mineral science for rockhounds and educators”
• Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.: Minerals in thin-section, viewed under a single polarizer or crossed polarizers.
• The Virtual Microscope
  
• Professor Mark Francek, Central Michigan University: List of sites organized by topic under Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction

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