Useful links to...

Links to Other NZ Clubs:



North Shore Rockhounds Club Inc

Links to
Books:

Reed Field Guide to New Zealand Geology (Recommended by Club)

Here you can download a PDF file of Jocelyn's 1985 Book "Gemstones"
The file is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and is a little over 11 Mb in
size.

Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand -
Download a PDF version of this book (84MB)

Rock and Mineral Links:


COMPREHENSIVE site Claims to be the largest mineral
database and mineralogical reference website on the internet. This site
contains worldwide data on minerals, mineral collecting, mineral localities
and other mineralogical information. Good photos.

COMPREHENSIVE site with many sections. ie: Alphabetical listing, image
listing, crystallography, chemical composition, etc. Very informative. This
site has many links to many other mineral database listings.

e.explore.rock and mineral combines the best of a traditional reference book
with an extra digital dimension. The book's dedicated website has been
created with Google, the world's leading search engine. It guides the reader
to the most helpful, appropriate and amazing sites the web has to offer.
Virtual Museum of the
History of Mineralogy
http://www.rocksandminerals4u.com
A lower level site of some worth.
http://www.minerals.net
A minerals database called The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom. Lots of data
but very small photos.
http://mineral.galleries.com
Amethyst Galleries Mineral Site. Describes over 600 minerals species and
over 5000 specimens.
http://www.gemselect.com
Gems for sale site with a small description of various gems.
http://www.selectminerals.com
Fine quality mineral specimens for sale. Smallish photos.
http://www.theimage.com
An excellent site with mineral and gemstone pictures and descriptions. Site
contains over 600 pictures unfortunately displayed very small. Also
tutorials on photography, faceting, geology, and other subjects you will be
surprised at.
http://www.valuablestones.com
An online encyclopedia of gemstones.
http://www.minerant.org/home.html
Essentially a collection of miscellaneous links in the rock world
http://www.min.uni-bremen.de/kabinett/index.en.html
Mineral images of specimens from the collection of the University of Bremen,
Germany.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Epincha/minerals.htm
NZ Micro-Mineral Club.
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