Useful Mineralogy Links

 General Sites

  Optics

 Crystallography

  Systematic Mineralogy

 Advanced Topics

 Museums

 Some General Sites

 http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/mineral.html : Here are mineral lists (IMA approved mineral names and varieties names, updated 1998) sorted either alphabetically or arranged systematically. Also links to mineral pictures.

 http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anoncoursemineral.html: List of Mineralogy course from the Virtual Geoscience Professor

  http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements WebElements: the periodic table on the World-Wide Web by Mark Winter University of Sheffield. Find all the ionic radii etc. you'll ever need here, on a clickable periodic table.

   The Image: http://www.theimage.com/index.html

   The Mineral Gallery: http://mineral.galleries.com/default.htm

   The Mineralogical Society of America: http://www.minsocam.org/

   http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html : A page full of useful Mineralogy Links

   Athena Mineral Search: This is a list of known minerals together with their chemical formulas.

   http://www.gl.ciw.edu/~finger/kiel.html is an excellent introduction to High Pressure Minerals.

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Crystallography 

http://www.nie.ac.sg:8000/~wwwphys/course/online-de/NAP415/mainpg.htmlx : An introduction to solid state physics.

   http://www.crystalmaker.co.uk/crystalmaker/ Home of the CrystalMaker program. CrystalViewer may be downloaded for free and runs on Apple Macs. A useful crystal visualisation program.

  http://www.geo.utexas.edu/crystal/Home of the XtalDraw (pronounced Crystal Draw) program. Similar in functionality to CrystalMaker, but runs on a PC under DOS. This is a shareware program, and may be downloaded from the home page.

 http://www.bucknell.edu/~kastner/ Crystallographic courseware by Margaret Kastner, with some useful illustrations of the basic concepts of Unit Cells and Lattices. Downloadable from these pages, to run on Apple Mac.

 http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/symmetry/ A self-paced tutorial (with self-assessment) on Symmetry in Point groups and Lattices as applied to crystallography. Part of Birkbeck College's computer-based teaching programme in Crystallography. Runs on a PC running MS-Windows and may be downloaded from this site.

 http://info.mcc.ac.uk/Geology/CAL/crystal.html Is an introduction to the module available on our server.

 Crystallography World Wide: part of the World-Wide-Web virtual Library. An extensive collection of useful links.

 The Web Accessible Diffractometer 

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Background Optics

 http://www.brocku.ca/earthsciences/people/gfinn/optical/2P22.htm : An excellent Optics Course at BROCK UNIVERSITY.

 The Open University Virtual Microscope (OUVM) provides a computer-based simulation of a polarising microscope

 The UKESCC Optical Mineralogy module which provides a computer-based tutorial on the entire subject

 A good site at Bristol: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Geol/opmin/mins.html#minid  

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Systematic Mineralogy

  http://mineral.gly.bris.ac.uk/Mineralogy/elements/main.html : A major mineralogy course at BRISTOL UNIVERSITY by Dr David Sherman ( dave.sherman@bris.ac.uk)

   http://www.unb.ca/courses/geol2142/LEC-10.html : University of New Brunswick, notes on silicate minerals.

  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jrice/geol_311/geol_311.html : University of Oregon mineralogy course.

  Robert A. Ixer, Department of Geological Sciences, Birmingham University, and Paul R. Duller, Kerr McGee Oil, London: Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore Minerals in their Associations. This site provides over 400 full colour photomicrographs of the major ore-forming associations and opaque minerals in non-mineralized rocks.

   Mineralogy at U. of Wisconson (J. Banfield): This has the notes for a full semester course.

   Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy Course at U. of Idaho (M.Gunter): An extensive set of notes and handouts for a very good course.

   Mineral Structures Lab at U. of Colorado (J. Smyth): A great site. Check out and bookmark the Mineral Structures Database that they are putting together.

   Petrographic Workshop at UCLA: A collection of nice thin sections of rock forming minerals that can be viewed online.

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Advanced Topics 

  http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~jill/geo306.html : An introduction to Gem Minerals at the Univ Wisconsin.

  http://www.geo.utexas.edu/347k/redesign/Gem_Notes/gemnote_triple_frame.htm : Notes on Gems from Univ Texas at Austin.

  http://www.uakron.edu/mmlab/dose : A introduction to the medical effects of geology and mineralogy, from Univ Akron.

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Mineral Museums

 Smithsonian's Gem and Mineral Collection

 Ecole des Mines de Paris

 Natural History Museum, Bern, CH.

 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/: The Natural Histrory Museum, London. 

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