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Welcome to the Rockhounds Information Page. You are visitor number since January 19, 1996.

This page was established by the members of the Rockhounds mailing list.

The following information is currently available:

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• Search the Trade Show Central database for upcoming Gem and Mineral or Jewelry shows.

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• Access to:
  • Rock Shops and Galleries
  • Images and Pictures
  • Books, Articles, and Other Publications
  • General Earth Science Info
  • Paleontology-Related Sites
  • Collecting Sites and Trips
  • Other Earth Science Related Groups, Clubs, and Societies
  • Software
  • Personal Home Pages of Other Collectors

Rock Shops and Galleries

• The Avalon Crystalworks page features crystals for sale as well as a picture of one of the prettiest mineral dealers that I have ever seen! :-)

• The United Gem Dealers Syndicate page offers gemstones, jewelry, and mineral specimens for sale.

• The LICCINI page offers gemstone cutting roughs, crystals & minerals, and gemstone enhancement services.

• The Gems Direct page is an online jewelry and gem store.

• The Internet Diamond Exchange page features gem and jewelry discussion groups and other links.

• The Arizona Rockshop page features pictures of Virgin Valley fire opals as well as other collecting info.

• The JLM Visuals page specializes in visuals dealing with the earth sciences.

• The Noema Gems page has gems, jewelry, minerals and fossils for sale.

• Charles Ward's Fluorescent Minerals page has fluorescents from all over the world (including Franklin, NJ) for sale.

• The Many Facets Rock Shop page has gems, jewelry, minerals and fossils for sale.

• The Rock-N-Wood Rock Shop page has specimens for sale, in fact, the whole business is for sale!

• The UC Minerals page has mineral specimens for sale.

• The Rockman McLean Trading Co page specializes in earth science educational products.

• The Rockman page also has mineral specimens for sale as well as an ineractive forum for posting messages.

• The Mineral Gallery specializes in cabinet sized mineral specimens.

• The Gavel International page specializes in Chinese mineral and fossil specimens.

• The Kelrocks page specializes in mineral specimens, gemstones, and silver jewelry.

• Great Basin Minerals specializes in self-collected, rare and beautiful mineral species from Nevada and the Great Basin.

• Adam's Minerals has mineral specimens and gemstones for sale as well as a nice collection of images. The site also features a Freebie Mineral Page.

• The Coolrox Limited page has rocks, minerals, and fossils for sale.

• The Adamas Gemological Laboratory web site features information on DeBeer's synthetic diamonds.

• The Domari Mines & Systems page features information on Canadian mining, engineering, lapidary and field guides.

• Fabre Minerals is a European Internet mineral dealer.

• Gemstoneworld is a mine direct supplier of facet rough and cut gemstones from around the world.

• Rough and Tumble's WebSite has gemstones as well as lapidary supplies for sale.

• Bryson's Rock Shop has minerals, fossils, gemstones as well as lapidary supplies for sale.

• Steve's Stones has finished gemstones for sale.

• The Mineral market in an online gem, mineral, and fossil shopping mall. It features an online mineral, fossil, and gemstone auction, and also hosts the Pala International and Salem Minerals web sites.

• Utah Mineral & Fossil specializes in minerals, and fossils from Utah and other world-wide locations.

• The Gem Kingdom has gemstones, jewelry, and mineral specimens for sale.

• Royal Scepter Gems and Minerals has mineral specimens, silver, turquoise, and jewelry for sale.

• Bob's Rock Shop, an excellent, non-commercial site containing mineral specimen displays, collecting site information, software, and a rock trader classified page.

• The Fossil Company, a commercial site containing a catalogue of fossils, mineral specimens and crystals for sale. This site also contains many useful links.

• The Amber Lady, a commercial site for those interested in amber.

• Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery, "The First Internet Rock Shop". This is one of the best sites I have found on the web. It contains a wealth of mineralogical information, as well as many nice specimens for sale. Check it out!

• The Stone Company, a commercial site offering fossil specimens for sale.

• The Gem Hut, a commercial site offering gemstones for sale.

• The High Grade District is a mineral shop. The web page also contains a report on the '96 Tucson show.

• If you are into LARGE (as in an 18,000 pound double terminated quartz crystal!), Zee's in Tucson, Arizona is the place for you.

• Mineral Wells is a supplier of gift-oriented mineral and fossil materials.

• Olympic Mountain Gems has a large selection of gems and minerals for sale.

• The Facet Shoppe features custom faceting of colored gemstones as well as the sale of rough and cut gems.

• White Nights Siberian Minerals specializes in imported Russian minerals, such as jade, charoite, and agate.

• Indigo Instruments sells science-related equipment, including field magnifiers.

• The Mineral World & Scratch Patch is a "geological tourist attraction" near Vancouver, BC.

• The Great Natural Rock & Gift Company has over 100 rock, mineral and crystal specimens for sale.

• The PaleoArt web page, hosts many online rock shops and galleries.

• The GemZone has online classifieds as well as an online bulletin board service.

• The Jewelry Mall has links to jewelry-related stores.

• PaleoPlace contains fossil images and fossils for sale.

• The Ganoksin Online gallery contains links to jewelry-related stores as well as Tips from the Jewelers Bench, a comprehensive collection of jewlry making techniques.

• The OsoSoft Mineral Collection page offers specimens for sale, mineral photos, and other links.

• The GemWorld home page has specimens, equipment, and supplies for sale.

• The Ammonite page is a French site which offers minerals, fossils, and jewelry for sale.

• Two Guys Minerals and Fossils offers mineral and fossil specimens as well as fossil collecting field trips.

• Treasures of the Earth sells fossils, minerals and artifacts.

• J and S Fossils features gaint megalodon shark jaw reproductions.

• Thoth Gems has gemstones for sale.

• The Gem and Mineral Exploration Company page has information on the Himalaya Mine, Topaz Mtn, Owens Valley, Pelican Point and several other major collecting areas.

Images and Pictures

• The WAIS Server for the image collection at the Smithsonian.

• The web page for the image collection at the Smithsonian. This is an excellent alternative to the WAIS Server and contains small icons for all of the images.

• The web page and mineral image collection at the Institute for Mineralogy and Mineral Resources at the Technical University of Clausthal in Germany.

• The Museum of Mineralogy, at the Ecole de Mines (School of Mines) in Paris.

• The Wilensky Mineral Video. This site is offering a mineral video tape catalog for collectors.

• TheImage home page features over 300 photos of minerals and gems.

Books, Articles, and Other Publications

• The Mineralogical Record magazine website allows you to search back issues for items of interest.

• The Canadian Rockhound is an internet magazine for rockhounds.

• Search Amazon.com or Barnes and Noblefor books on interest.

• National Gemstone's Home Page contains gemstone-related articles and prices.

• GeoScience Books is a supplier of geology-related books of all types.

• BookServe is an online bookstore. This site features a nice search engine for finding books by topic.

• The American Mineralogist is the Journal of the Mineralogical Society of America.

• The Eclectic Lapidary is a new electronic publication for the lapidary community.

• The LR Ream Publishing page contains collecting information as well as back issues of Mineral News.

• The "He's Nothing But a Rockhound" an article written for Science Bytes, an online magazine for children published by the University of Tennessee.

General Earth Science Info

• The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom page offers information on mineral classification, gemstones, and mineral resources.

• The Earth Sciences web page at the University of Calgary in Canada.

• The Explorer Home Page at the University of Kansas. This site contains a lot of educational lessons and related material.

• The Department of Earth Sciences web page, at the University of Sheffield, UK. This site feature many useful geology-related links.

• The Virtual Earth web page, a tour of the world wide web for earth scientists, and the Soft Earth, which features links to geoscience-related software.

• The USGS home page.

• The Natural History Museum at Berne, Switzerland. This site contains information on both mineralogy and paleontology.

• The USGS Mineral Resource Surveys Program contains mineral resource information as well as several links to other sites. There is also a Mineral Information page at this site.

• The Geological Survey of Canada.

• The Australian Geological Survey.

• The Athena Mineralogy Page features a wealth of mineralogical data including searchable databases.

• Crystallography Information Server contains information on crystallography, including software and links to other sites.

• The NAGT Web Index is sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. The site contains information on geology, organizations, journals, maps, and software.

• The Latest Earthquake Information from the USGS.

• The Museum of Victoria web page contains information on the collections, services and research of the Mineralogy and Petrology section of the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Paleontology-Related Sites

• Collecting Fossils in California page contains information on fossil collecting sites.

• Matt's Paleo Pages features a lot of Paleontology-Related information, including a newsletter and an online chat forum.

• The Field Museum of Natural History web page. This page includes a tour of their newest public exhibit, "DNA to Dinosaurs".

• Dino Russ's Lair, the "Earthnet Info Server". This site is devoted mainly to paleontology-related subjects, but has an excellent catalog of web pages for "Earth Science and Geology Information".

• The Morrison Research Initiative web page, containing information on the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.

• The University of California Paleontology Museum at UC Berkeley. This site contains a virtual tour of geologic time including the related stratigraphy and fossils.

• The First Dinosaur Skeleton, an article about the discovery of Hadrosaurus in Haddonfield, NJ, in 1858.

• The Paleontology Museum in Oslo, Norway has a lot of fossil images.

• The Fossils of New Jersey page is dedicated to the geology and paleontology of New Jersey.

Collecting Sites and Trips

• The Mayhill Press page contains gold and gem maps and other info.

• The Rockhounding Arkansas page contains a wealth of information on Arkansas minerals and collecting sites.

• Ron Coleman's Quartz Crystal Mines page contains a wealth of information on the Ouachita Mountain Range in Arkansas as well as the Old Coleman Mine.

• The High Desert - Southern Oregon page contains a collecting site map.

• Mexico Mineral Safaris, sponsored by Walt Bowser of Geological Artifacts.

• Sandra and David Downs' Cyberwall lists many collecting localities and scenic geologic features in the eastern US.

• Big Ten's site contains gold maps and other gold prospecting info.

• And... for all of the things that you can't collect, do, fold, spindle or mutilate here in the good 'ole USA -- the Code of Federal Regulations Server. If this doesn't ruin your collecting trip, nothing will!

Other Earth Science Related Groups, Clubs, and Societies

• The Montreal Gem & Mineral Club page contains club, field trip, and show information.

• The Everett Rock & Gem Club page contains club and meeting information.

• The Middle Tennessee Gem & Mineral Society page contains club, field trip, and meeting information.

• The Fort Worth Gem and Mineral Club page contains information about the club and has links to other clubs plus a calendar of events.

• The Northwest Opal Association page contains information about the club and Opals in general.

• The Gold Prospectors Association of America page contains a wealth of information about, you guessed it, gold prospecting.

• The Swedish Federation of Amateur Geologists page represents about 17 rock and mineral clubs in Sweden and contains a wealth of information about collecting in Sweden.

• The North Jeffco Gem and Mineral Club page contains club, field trip, and show information.

• The Mineral Collectors Page, sponsored by the Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium includes The Virtual Quarry, a non-commercial classified advertising service.

• The French Micromount Association Page, sponsored by the French Association of Micromineralogy.

• The Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies page offers several types of lapidary workshops.

• The Geological Society of America page contains meeting and publication information.

• The Carolina Geological Society page contains meeting and publication information.

• The Dutch Mineral Association, GEODE home page contains information on several European collecting localities, as well as links to other sites.

• The Washington State Mineral Council page contains club and field trip information.

• The Mineralogical Society of America page contains information on meetings, publications, and membership.

• The International Colored Gemstone Association page contains information on gemstones and tips on how to buy them.

• The Searcher's Gem and Mineral Society of Anaheim, California contains meeting and show information.

• The Rock & Mineral Associations of Canada page contains information on Canadian rockhound clubs and societies.

Software

• The ftp server for the Computer Oriented Geological Society. This site contains a lot of mineralogy-related software including Mineral Mastery, a mineral identification program for the PC.

• GEMSTONE.

• The DeLorme Home Page. This page features mapping software and related products.

Personal Home Pages of Other Collectors

• Jim and Ann Reed's Colorado Minerals page has a wealth of information on Colorado mineral collecting and pegmatites.

• Loren Klomp's Rockpile page has information on the Faceters Guild of Northern California.

• Joe Lobell's Oklahoma Minerals page has information on Oklahoma and Texas minerals.

• Ronald Werner's Norwegian Rock & Mineral Guide contains just about everything you would want to know about collecting in Norway.

• Joe Lobell's Oklahoma Minerals page has information on Oklahoma and Texas minerals.

• Marsh and Deb's Treasure Box.

• Terrys's Oregon Rock page has information on field trips, rock and gem shows, and clubs in the northwest US.

• Guy Hammer's home page. This page also contains a lot of useful links to other web pages.

• Kenneth Colosky's Fluorescent Mineral Page.

• Tim Fisher's Oregon Rockhounds' Home Page. Tim has quite a bit of information about Oregon collecting sites on this page.

• Kevin's Page of Death, despite the name, an excellent paleontological site, especially for Trilobites.

• Ted Smith's ORES Mineralogy page has a lot of good info on mailing lists, newsgroups, links, software, and publications. This is a really good site. Check it out!

• John Hopkins' Underemployed Geologist's Homepage contains some links to other earth science resources as well as some rock and mineral specimens for sale.

• Confessions of a Rockhound allows you to post links to your own rockhound-related web site.

• Chris Visco's Earth Science Teacher page contains a lot of useful links and other information.

• Chad Parker's Rockhounding in Colorado page contains useful information about several areas including a map for rockhounding Mt. Antero (one of Colorado's premier sites).

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