~ Early Web Links ~

Mineral Webzine is a bilingual French-English non-commercial online magazine dedicated to rockhounds, mineral collectors, and geology enthusiasts. Featuring photographs of specimens like garnet, wulfenite, and cinnabar contributed by collectors from Canada and France, it serves as a reference for mineralogy, crystallography, and gemology.

The Fluorescent Mineral Society hosts a stunning photo gallery showcasing minerals from around the world photographed under shortwave, midwave, and longwave ultraviolet light, revealing their glowing colors. Specimens from famous localities like the Franklin and Sterling Hill mines in New Jersey, Tsumeb in Namibia, and sites across China, Australia, and Brazil are featured with photographer credits and mineral identification.

Mineralienatlas is a comprehensive German-language encyclopedia and community platform covering mineralogy, geology, paleontology, and mining, supported by thousands of members worldwide. Visitors can search minerals by chemical properties, browse fossil and mineral portraits, explore collecting locations, and dive into crystallography and systematic mineralogy.

Hosted at Michigan Tech since 1993, this long-running volcano resource page gathers links to educational tools, research sites, webcams, and cultural materials related to volcanology from around the world. Visitors can explore active volcano feeds, teaching resources, folklore, myths, and interviews with real volcanologists, making it a rich hub for both students and enthusiasts.

Fossils Facts and Finds is a comprehensive educational resource covering everything from fossil formation and identification to detailed pages on hundreds of specific species including trilobites, ammonites, dinosaurs, and megalodon. Aimed at kids, teachers, and homeschoolers, the site also spans the full geologic time scale, offers lesson plans, coloring pages, and even sells fossils and educational materials.

The PALEOMAP Project, run by Christopher Scotese, is a comprehensive scientific resource illustrating the plate tectonic development of Earth's ocean basins and continents over the past 1.1 billion years. Visitors can explore full-color paleogeographic maps, interactive 3D PaleoGlobes, animations of ancient Earth configurations like Pangea, and download materials for geology education.

Webmineral presents a comprehensive classification of mineral species based on Dana's New Mineralogy, organizing over 78 mineral classes from Native Elements to Unclassified Silicates. This detailed reference resource covers the full spectrum of mineralogy including sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, and silicates, making it an invaluable tool for geologists, mineralogists, and earth science enthusiasts.

Rocks and Minerals 4U is a comprehensive educational resource covering geology topics including rock formation, mineral identification, plate tectonics, and the rock cycle, with dedicated pages for igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Designed for collectors, students, homeschoolers, and teachers, the site offers lesson plans, crossword puzzles, photo galleries, and even a shop for rock and mineral specimens.

The Maryland Geological Society is a non-profit club founded in 1991 for amateur and professional fossil and mineral collectors, open to all who share a passion for the geological sciences. Visitors will find meeting schedules, field trip announcements, fossil and mineral FAQs, a gallery, newsletter archives, and articles by contributing scientists.

Webmineral.com presents a comprehensive reference for the Nickel-Strunz Classification System, organizing over 4,700 minerals into a systematic hierarchy of chemical groups from elements and sulfides to silicates and organic compounds. Built with contributions from mineralogist James A. Ferraiolo whose classification scholarship dates to 1982, the site serves as a serious database tool for mineralogists, crystallographers, and collectors.