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Fine Mineral Specimens Online

Specializing in large and cabinet-size mineral specimens. Check it out!

John, based in New York City, offers a very nice selection of specimens, with good photos.

An Australian Dealer with very interesting material

Be sure to visit these other sites. They offer great information and specimens with photos. If you want to add a link to your favorite site, just send me an Email with the URL, title, and a brief description of the site. If you have a mineral-related web page and would like to exchange links, please contact me by Email.

Non-Commercial Sites

This is without a doubt the best all-around starting place site on the web for rockhounds and mineral collectors. Great photos, free classified ads, rockhounds discussion group, an excellent link list, and more. OsoSoft Mineral Connection is proud to be a commercial sponsor of this site.

Excellent organization with a new domain name. Check these folks out!

A non-profit educational site about minerals and gems. It's still growing and parts are always under construction, but this site has great potential.

Many links and free classified ads.

Lovely mineral photos, and a nice on-line museum. Visit it!

The first web site devoted to micromounters and micromounting. In French and English. Click the UK flag to get to the English site. Lots of information.

Information and links on fossils and minerals.

Excellent information on this most famous of Canadian localities. You owe it to yourself to visit this web site if you have any interest in alkali-environment minerals.

The island of Elba, off the coast of Italy, is the home of many world-class specimens. This web site, primarily a tourist-oriented site, also has many excellent mineral and mine photos. After you reach the site, click the Nature Sport link, then the Minerali link. The site is mainly in Italian, but the photos are in the universal language of images. It's terrific!

I don't know if this site is new, but it's absolutely dynamite! When you go there, you'll see a form. Leave the Feature Name field blank, then enter the State and County you want to search, and enter the word MINE as the Feature Type and do the search. You'll see a list of all mines in that county. Click on one and you'll get a map, like the one above, showing its precise location. Use this with your own maps to locate mines in your area or in an area you'll be visiting.

The home of the Rocks and Fossils Email List web site. Links, images, contests, and more. This site is growing fast and is updated frequently. It looks to be one of the best bets for the future.

Here's an excellent site on fossils, if that's your interest. Plenty of information on collections, collectors, plus many links to other related sites. Drop by if fossils pull your chain.

Another excellent resource, especially for links to other web sites. You can fill up your hot list quickly here.

Don't miss this site, and be sure to click the links! Excellent mineral photographs!

Publications

This site has some of the nicest mineral photos around...all from the famous French magazine, Le Regne Mineral. It's more than worth a visit.

THE U.S. magazine about minerals. This site, built by Bob Keller, includes indexes to every issue. And there's more to come. MR is finally on line!

Mineral News is a monthly newsletter for mineral collectors. It's a must have subscription for every collector. You'll also find Mineral Database software at this site, along with other publications.

International Web Sites

Commercial Mineral Dealers and Other Commercial Sites

Note: Inclusion in this list of links does not necessarily imply an endorsement of a dealer by OsoSoft. The list is unfiltered, and merely represents links to existing web sites. As with all online transactions, use the usual good sense when ordering. If you have a problem with a dealer on this list, please inform me. I will investigate and if the problem cannot be resolved, I will remove the link. Please suggest new links and report all broken or changed links by Emailing OsoSoft.

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This leads to a page devoted to postage stamps picturing minerals, gems & mining. An excellent adjunct to you mineral collection. Recommended