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- Alkali-Nuts: Mont Saint-Hilaire - Located East of Montréal, in Mont Saint-Hilaire and has become a major collecting site of rare mineral specimens. Offers mineral and assemblage guide, along with local dealer listings.
- Minerals of Australia and New Zealand - Information about the minerals and mineral locations in Australia and New Zealand.
- Murray and Simon's Prospectors' Homepage - Educational site dedicated to current mineral exploration in the Cobalt Mining Camp. Geological, historical and area property info featured with rock pics and graphics.
- Steve Sorrell's Main Adit - Minerals and mineral locations in Tasmania.
- Mineral Location Database CD-ROM - Information on 221,000 mineral sites (occurrences, deposits, mines, processing facilities).
- Mines and Minerals of Devon and Cornwall - Disused mines and quarries of Devon and Cornwall and the minerals they produced. Cultural history and folklore of the mining people.
- The Berry Gem Mine - Maine - Mineral collecting and leasing information for beginner to pro. Complete list of tourmaline sites.
- The Ikaite Holotype - Account of expedition to investigate Greenland's melting mineral.
- The gold mines and miners of Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, USA. - No description
- Franklin and Sterling Hill - On-line guide to minerals found in the Franklin-Sterling Hill mining district, located in the towns of Franklin and Ogdensburg, New Jersey.
Wikipedia Articles
- Surface mining - Surface mining is a type of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit are removed. It is the opposite of underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral removed through shafts or tunnels.
- Helium dating - Helium Dating (or He dating) is the method of age determination that depends on the production of helium during the decay of the radioactive isotopes uranium-235 (U-235), uranium-238 (U-238), and thorium-232 (Th-232). Because of this decay, the helium content of any mineral or rock capable of retaining helium will increase during the lifetime of that mineral or rock, and the ratio of helium to its radioactive progenitors then becomes a constant.
- Mineral redox buffer - In geology, a redox buffer is an assemblage of minerals or compounds that constrains oxygen fugacity as a function of temperature. Knowledge of the redox conditions (or equivalently, oxygen fugacities) at which a rock forms and evolves can be important for interpreting the rock history.
- Paragenesis - Paragenesis is a petrologic concept meaning an equilibrium assemblage of mineral phases. It is used in studies of igneous and metamorphic rock genesis and importantly in studies of the hydrothermal deposition of ore minerals and the rock alteration (vein metasomatism) associated with ore mineral deposits.
- Mineral - A mineral is a naturally occurring substance formed through geological processes that has a characteristic chemical composition, a highly ordered atomic structure and specific physical properties. A rock, by comparison, is an aggregate of minerals and need not have a specific chemical composition.