a database of mineral descriptions and images for rockhounds, educators, and geology students everywhere. This database includes physical characteristics and common associations, enabling our full-text Mineral Search facility to be valuable for mineral identification.

This mineral database contains more than 5, 000 web pages of mineral data. There are 4, 102 individual mineral species descriptions with links.

Athena mineralogy: a systematic classification of minerals ...

Information about color in minerals and the spectroscopy of minerals.

Main Menu Log In Message Board Event List Mindat Mall Register Element Search Chatroom Links Statistics Welcome to mindat.org - August 14, 2002 What is mindat.org Mineral News - August 2002 Mindat.org is probably the largest mineralogical reference on the internet. It was started (as a DOS database) by Jolyon Ralph in 1993 - and was launched for free on the web in October 2000. Currently there ...