Principally for sites that describe a mineral setting, whether it be from a collectors view point, or the description of a mineral holotype.
Holotype : The locality that describes the mineral - usually where it was first discovered.
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Located East of Montréal, in Mont Saint-Hilaire and has become a major collecting site of rare mineral specimens. Offers mineral and assemblage guide, along with local dealer listings.
Information about the minerals and mineral locations in Australia and New Zealand.
Site designed for an education aid to students, but contains many excellent slides showing the geology of Oman. See dolerite dykes, harzburgite, and channel-fill structures.
Rockhound's Guide to collecting/beachcombing Oregon Coast Agate.
Quartz crystal at the Arkansas' Old Coleman Mine.
A native mine yielding star rubies, sapphires and garnets, for both the serious and the amateur rockhound.
Arkansas' natural quartz crystals mine.
The BBC reports on Mexico’s Cave of Crystals, containing some of the largest natural selenite structures ever found.
(January 19, 2010)
Located East of Montréal, in Mont Saint-Hilaire and has become a major collecting site of rare mineral specimens. Offers mineral and assemblage guide, along with local dealer listings.
Rockhound's Guide to collecting/beachcombing Oregon Coast Agate.
Quartz crystal at the Arkansas' Old Coleman Mine.
Site designed for an education aid to students, but contains many excellent slides showing the geology of Oman. See dolerite dykes, harzburgite, and channel-fill structures.
Information about the minerals and mineral locations in Australia and New Zealand.
A native mine yielding star rubies, sapphires and garnets, for both the serious and the amateur rockhound.
Arkansas' natural quartz crystals mine.
The BBC reports on Mexico’s Cave of Crystals, containing some of the largest natural selenite structures ever found.
(January 19, 2010)
