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.
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
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
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.
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.
Smithsonian's Gem and Mineral Collection
Natural
History Museum, Bern, CH.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/: The Natural Histrory Museum, London.