This page has some links from all over the world of interest to Rockhounds. Most of them are in the United States, but not all. The St. Louis Mineral & Gem Society hopes you enjoy "mining the web" for ideas on that next big collecting trip! Will it be to De Soto, or to Coober Pedy?
Museums
- Mastodon State Historic Site (Kimmswick, MO)
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Clement Mineral Museum (Marion, KY)
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- Burpee Museum (Rockford, IL)
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- A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum (Houghton, MI)
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- National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution)
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- Smithsonian Institution Mineral Sciences (Washington, DC)
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- Calvert Marine Museum (Solomons, MD)
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- Mammoth Site (Hot Springs, SD)
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- Sterling Hill Mining Museum (Sterling Hill, NJ)
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- Franklin Mineral Museum (Franklin, NJ)
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- American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
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- Royal Tyrell Museum
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- Aurora Fossil Museum
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Publications
- Jewelry Artist (formerly Lapidary Journal)
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- Rock & Gem
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- The Mineralogical Record
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Fossils
- Everything Fossils
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- State Fossils
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- Mid-America Paleontology Society
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- Mazon Creek Collecting
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- Missouri Fossils
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- The definitive site for fossil shark's teeth
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Minerals
- Mindat - a very versitile site for mineral information
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- The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
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- Minerology Database
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- YupRocks.com Rock and Mineral Pictures
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- National Rockhound & Lapidary Hall of Fame
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Rockhounding
- U. S. Geological Survey
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- Bureau of Land Management
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- USDA Forest Service Mineral and Geology Management
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- The National Park Service - Park Geology
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Do It Yourself
- Mineral Label Software
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- Home-built Faceting Machine
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- Boxes for your Rock and Mineral Collection
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Other Links...
- American Federation of Mineralogical Societies
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- Rockhounding 101, Basics on Collecting
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- Collecting Code of Ethics
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- Coober Pedy: Opal Capital of the World
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Organizations
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American Federation of Mineralogical Societies
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Fluorescent Mineral Society
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Greater St. Louis Association of Earth Science Clubs
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- American Lands Access Association
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- Gem & Mineral Federation of Canada
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A static image (updated every five minutes) of Mount St. Helens, Washington USA, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The summit of Mount St. Helens is at an elevation of 2,549 Meters (8,364 feet), at 46.20 N, 122.18 W. The summit stood at 9,677 feet before the May 18, 1980, eruption. The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet, about five miles from the volcano. You are looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley. The Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam is brought to you by the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Vancouver, Washington, and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Amboy, Washington USA.