Links for Mineralogists: Table of Contents
KNOWLEDGE 1: Links for Mineralogists
KNOWLEDGE 2: Links for Mineralogists
TOOLS 1: Links for Mineralogists
TOOLS 2: Links for Mineralogists
TOOLS 3: Links for Mineralogists
CONTACT 1: Links for Mineralogists
CONTACT 3: Links for Mineralogists

CONTACT 2: Links for Mineralogists

Mineralogical Mueums

Index of Museums

Maintained by Anthony R. Kampf on the server of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: The Society of Mineral Museum Professionals. The objectives of the society are to foster recognition of mineral science collections as essential scientific, educational and cultural resources, and to promote support for the growth, maintenance and use of collections and exhibits.

Arthur Anderson: The Lost Museum of Sciences. A comprehensive index of science museum links throughout the world. See: Natural History Rotunda, Hall of Natural History, Geology Exhibit and the Observatory.

University of California in Berkeley: Natural History Museums A comprehensive list.

Jonathan Bowen (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Reading), Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL), Archive Service: Museums. This page provides searching facilities for museums around the world. With search engine.

Deutsches Museum, München: Andere Museen / Other Museums.

Eduardo Jawerbaum, Buenos Aires: EDUARDO JAWERBAUM´S ARGENTINE MUSEUMS LIST

Kosmos Magazin: Temporary Natural Science Exhibitions in Germany. (In German).

N. MacLeod, PaleoNet: Museums.

Mark W. Maimone, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide. This page contains pointers to public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education.

The Mineralogical Society of America: Mineral Museums on the WWW

Oxford University: Virtual Library museums pages: Index of museums around the world, categorized by country and type. Also available via Sweden, http://www.icom.org/vlmp/ or USA, Stanford University.

web.de: Museen. (In German).

Access to Mineralogical Museums and Collections

Museum of Natural History, Mineralogy and Petrology, Bern.
Department of Geology at the University of Bristol. Rock of the Week Comp. Each week a new rock, mineral or fossil specimen will be displayed.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Also available mirrored via Europe.
Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Natural history museum, Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Florence.
Mineralogical Collection of the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
The Geological Museum, Geological Survey of Japan
Mineralogische Sammlung der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
Mineralogical Museum of Kamariza, Attica.
Lausanne Geological Museum (in French)
Ken's Fluorescent Minerals
The Natural History Museum, London.
Mineral Sciences Exhibits, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles
The Mineralogical Museum Marburg, Germany
Mineralogy and Petrology Section, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
A. E. SEAMAN MINERAL MUSEUM, Michigan Technological University.
Redpath Museum, Faculty of Science of the McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Mineralogisches Museum, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.
Mineralogical-geological Museum, University of Oslo
Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Le Musée de Minéralogie de l'École des Mines, Paris:
Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Pisa
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Museum of Mineralogy, Rome University "La Sapienza"
The Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Smithsonian Gem & Mineral Collection. (via Galaxy, EINet). See also: List of Smithsonian places, and: New and temporary exhibitions at the Smithsonian.
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Museums of Natural History at Tøyen
Earth Sciences Museum, Waterloo, Ontario. Museum on the University of Waterloo.
The Mineralogical Museum Würzburg
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Search through the mineral collection and some other databases (gopher).

Other Geosciences Institutions

Table of Contents
Meta Indexes of Geo Institutions
Geological Surveys
Indexes of Geo Institutions in Germany
Indexes of Geo Institutions in the UK

Meta Indexes of Geo Institutions

V.J. Ansfield, University of South Dakota: Links To More Geoscience Department Directories

EJGE Magazine: World Wide Web of Geotechnical Engineers. Go to: Geotechnical Web Sites Catalog, University Geotechnical Engineering Servers.

The Fossil Company, London: Other Internet Sites connected with the Earth Sciences - Index. An extensive index, sorted by regions and countries.

Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University: Scientific WWW Servers. A capital web page, geo-institutions sorted by countries.

Russell J. Jacobson, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, Illinois: Geology Departments & Schools. Sorted by countries or continents.

Institut für Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz: Non-European Geoscience University Departments, and confined to Europe: European Geoscience University Departments. Geography excluded.

ORES, Geology: Geological Surveys and Related Governmental Agencies

YAHOO: Science: Earth Sciences: Geology and Geophysics: Institutes: A partly annotated list, in alphabetical order (with search-engine.

Geological Surveys

Geological Survey of Japan: Site Collection II, Geological Surveys in the world.

Jürgen Kraus, Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada: Geological Surveys and Natural Resources Departments.

Geological Survey of the Netherlands RGD; GEIXS - Geological datasets in Europe: European Geological Surveys EGS.

Virtual Library (from Calgary): Earth Sciences Organizations, and Geological Surveys. Classified by countries.

YAHOO: Geological Surveys

Indexes of Geo Institutions in Germany

Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Technical University of Clausthal: WWW-Server in Deutschland (in German).

DINO - Wissenschaft - Geowissenschaften: Partly with German annotations.

DINO - Wissenschaft - Großforschungseinrichtungen und Fachgesellschaften and Grundlegendes und Forschungsförderung. In German.

Geographisches Institut, Universität Hannover: Geowissenschaftliche Institute. Sorted by subject and towns in alphabetical order.

Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, University of Heidelberg: Earth Sciences Links in Germany.

Virtual Library, Universität Karlsruhe: Geowissenschaften (without Geography). See also: Deutsche Datenquellen, and Forschungsförderung.

Institut für Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz: European Geoscience University Departments. Geography excluded.

Holger Schinke, Postgraduate Research Program University of Würzburg, Geoscience Research in Africa: Geowissenschaftliche Institute der Universitäten Deutschlands. In German.

web.de: Geowissenschaften. For additional information see "Dokumente" and "Institutionen".

Telecom: Teleauskunft 1188 Online. In German.

Indexes of Geo Institutions in the UK

Department of Geology, University of Bristol: UK Geoscience WWW servers.

GEOMINE (hosted by: INFO-MINE), Exploration Geoscience, Professional Associations: UK Geological Societies, Associations and Study Groups

School of Computing & Information Technology, University of Wolverhampton: The UK Web Library - WWLib. A searchable, classified catalogue of WWW pages at sites in the United Kingdom. The catalogue is organised using Version 20 of the Dewey Decimal Classification widely used in libraries. Enter the catalogue using a keyword or keywords.

Universities

Universities in Germany

YAHOO. Regional:Countries: Germany: Education:Universities
DINO - Bildung
University Münster: ZSB-Unterverzeichnis: Graduiertenkolleg(Hochschulorte) A - Z
Last but not least: The german server for schools on the Web.

Universities worldwide

YAHOO. Education: Universities
College and University Home Pages: Alphabetical and geographical listing. Via TU Freiberg or Christina DeMello
Index of Worldwide University Homepages. With U.S. top 25 universities rankings.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät: EUROPÄISCHE UNIVERSITÄTEN IM INTERNET
M.A. Escotet: Universities: Europe

Why not subscribe in a mineralogical or related mailing list?

Geomine, The Geo Exchange: News letters, Groups and Mailing Lists.

geo-mineralisation. This list is the electronic information point for the Mineral Deposits Studies Group, an affiliate of the Geological Society (London). The list is also a forum open to all earth-scientists interested Economic Geology.

Info-mine: The LABMINE MAIL LIST has been established as a forum for the discussion of information pertaining to laboratory related issues in the practices of mining, metallurgy and mineral processing. Discussion is welcomed by anyone interested in such areas as proposed standard methods, development of standard reference materials, analytical methods, sampling procedures and extractive metallurgy.

Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Fluid Inclusion Listserver.

The Metamorphic Studies Group: geo-metamorphism. This list aims to act as an electronic information point for scientists working in all aspects of metamorphic geology.

Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium: Mineralogy mailing lists, a commented index.

Bill Thon and Ted Smith, Online Resources for Earth Scientists (ORES): Mineralogy and Mining Mailing Lists. An index of annotated server and list adresses.

Geoscience Newsgroups

Technical University of Clausthal - Institute of Geology and Paleontology: Newsgroups on Earth Sciences

Bill Thon and Ted Smith, Online Resources for Earth Scientists (ORES): Mineralogy and Mining Usenet Newsgroups. A small index, commented.

Amateur Mineralogy

Mineral Club of Antwerp, Belgium: Mineral Collectors Page. An extensive index of mineralogical topics, not only for amateur mineralogy.

Bob´s Rock Shop: With rocks in the news, rock trader classified and how to cut rocks.

Dealers of Minerals and Fossils (DMF), Verband des Europäischen Mineralien- und Fossilien-Fachhandels DMF e.V Bonn, Germany: List of Members, and Börsen (in German).

Sandra & David Downs: Rockhounding and Rock Collecting. A nice mixture of educational, commercial, rockhound stuff, and other sorts of Geo web page links.

French Association of Micromineralogy (AFM), Paris: The AFM's goal is to encourage the work and the activity of the enthusiastic people in the micro-mineralogy topic.

The Fossil Company, London. With online catalogue of mineral specimens and crystals.

Friends of Mineralogy (FM): FM is an organization devoted to the advancement of serious interest in minerals and related activities.

Hershel Friedman. The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom. This free educational website (partly still under construction) was created for all those interested in Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones. This page provides information describing hundreds of minerals, hundreds of high quality mineral images, a special gemstone guide, detailed text regarding topics associated with minerals, an in depth glossary and a free question-answer service (via e-mail).

Mineralogie.de: Geo-Info (in German).

Olympic Mountain Gems

Rockhounds Information Page.

The Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc. 86 clubs and societies devoted to the study of earth sciences and the practice of lapidary arts and crafts in the United States.

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