Geology 303A: Websites

Mindat.org is the world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from. Sharing of information about minerals, history, properties, and location

The RRUFF™ Project (Raman Research Used For Fun) is creating a complete set of high quality spectral data from well characterized minerals and is developing the technology to share this information with the world. Our collected data provides a standard for mineralogists, geoscientists, gemologists and the general public for the identification of minerals both on earth and for planetary exploration. more info...

> 4,714 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library. Each mineral has a page linked to tables devoted to crystallography, crystal structures, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Dana's New classification, Strunz classification, mineral specimen images, and alphabetical listings of mineral species. There also are extensive links to other external sources of mineral data and information.

>600 minerals, >5,000 specimens, together with several ways of accessing these descriptions. Searchable mineralogical data by Name, Class, and Groupings, Properties. Contains images of minerals.

Created and maintained by the RRUFF Project in partnership with the IMA. Now the world's largest public database of mineral information. Also has an extensive photo search. From the Mineralogical Society of America.

Crystal structure database containing structures published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, European Journal of Mineralogy, and Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, and selected information from other journals.