Interesting Links

Here you'll find links to micromounting websites, and, at the bottom, a few of the premier general mineralogy sites. I've tried to find and link to every micromounting site out there, but made no such effort for general mineralogy sites, it's already been done at Bob's Rock Shop.

Photomicrograph Sites

good site on collecting in Europe, tons of locality shots, etc.
16 fine photomicrographs of worldwide minerals and info on digital photomicrography
45 superb photomicrographs of minerals from four localities in France, by the AFM
Sclaigneaux, Belgium, a prolific slag site, with photomicrographs of about 50 'minerals'
almost 100 good photomicrographs, mostly of New England minerals
photomicrograhs of numerous (>100) species from Germany's Clara Mine - superb!
75 fair photomicrographs from the collection of James Madison University, Wisconsin
Fine articles on Norwegian micro localities, 8 photomicrographs of rarities from Langesundsfjord
10 good to superb photomicrographs of rarities from Lengenbach, Switzerland
9 photomicrographs of common to rare minerals from Sweden's Harstigen Mine
Graphite like you've never seen it, many B&W photomicrographs of bizarre graphite
13 good photomicrographs of common minerals from Ontario's University of Waterloo
Marc Favre's Mont Saint-Hilaire site, superb, over 90 photomicrographs
The Eudialyte Homepage, good coverage of worldwide alkaline localities, a few photomicrographs
35 good photomicrographs of common minerals from New Zealand
15 good photos, not all micros
8 fair photomicrographs
About 65 superb photomicrographs of New England minerals, a delightful site
10 wildly colored high-power mineral microphotographs amongst hundreds of other hi-mag non-mineral shots, quite a site
About a dozen nice photomicrographs and SEM photos of rare Belgian minerals
Around 50 superb SEM's, photomicrographs, and xl drawings of about 10 Franklin, NJ minerals
Some 80 good to superb shots of mostly micros from Italy's Sondrio Province
Photomicrographs of minerals from Wales, quite interesting
15 shots, mostly micros, some stunning things from Grube Clara
"Frozen Dramas", a superb series of photos of insects in amber from the Swedish Amber Museum
anatase, quartz, asbecasite and chernovite from Switzerland

Worldwide Micromounting Organizations

Canadian Micro Mineral Association 
Southern California Micro-Mineralogists
New Zealand Micro-Mineral Club
French Association of Micromineralogy
Micromount Section of the Georgia Mineral Society
The Leidy Microscopical Society (Pennsylvania)
Northern California Mineralogical Association
Southern California Micro-Mineralogists

Other Sites of Interest

Ontariominerals.com - my other website, dedicated to the mineralogy of Ontario, Canada
mindat.org - the largest mineral database on the net, tons of info and pix
Central Canadian Federation of Mineralogical Societies - find a club near you
Everything you ever wanted to know about the the guy weloganite was named for
Micromounts Listserver
International Email Directory of Micromounters
International Micromineral and Thumbnail Exchange, a dandy site for swappers
Sauktown Sales - a source of unmounted micromaterial
Eureka Micromounts - great micros from Europe
Mineralogical Association of Canada
Like crocoite? Check out Steve Sorrell's excellent site on Australian Mineralogy
Looking for a specific mineral? MineralFind is a handy search engine that scans only dealer's sites.
Domari Mines & Systems - Canadian lapidary materials and mineral specimens
Bob's Rock Shop - some micromounting stuff, and links to everything mineralogical
Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium - lots of stuff, like the Virtual Quarry and New Dana errata
Some folks use their scopes to look at things besides minerals! Check out Microscopy-UK.
Seldom-seen background info on the discovery of a dozen type locality Arkansas minerals, cool!
J.Adam Barwood's site, with lots to read -  http://www.mineralcollecting.org/
Minservice.com - worldwide and rare minerals, new minerals added every week.
Software and tools for the mineralogist, gemmologist, and collector
UC Minerals - nice display specimens
Meteoritesplus.com - a ton of nice meteorites!

Broken link? Site suggestions? Email me, tjokela@execulink.com

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