The Giant Crystal Project : Links

Links to other sites of interest

General Geology & Mineralogy :

Frank de Wit's excellent site about mineralogy and mining...thank you indeed for hosting
this site : www.strahlen.org

Thomas Witzke's site about saxonian and new minerals, with a collection of hard to obtain
mineral descriptions of early mineralogists : http://tw.strahlen.org

Mineral deposits of Russia and the Far East at : http://maurice.strahlen.org

Photographic mineral atlas with many (!) photos of rare and ultra rare minerals as well as other difficult to obtain information

Large selection of russian minerals including many giant crystals on "Druza" here and here. Please visit this excellent website !

The german Mineralienatlas with a wealth of information about mineralogy, particularily worth a visit are the newly started and extremely elaborated mineral portraits and the Mineralrekorde with a comprehensive list of the largest crystals of its kind (in german).

Looking for general information on minerals ? Try : www.mindat.org or webmineral.com for a start.

Website of the Deutsche Edelsteinmuseum Idar-Oberstein,
which hosts a very large collection of gems and gemmy crystals of all kinds.

Specific Localities :

Africa :

Cameroon - Vivianite : Ecole de Mines Website

America :

Argentina : Capillitas : Information about the discovery of the rhodochrosite stalagtite cave at the Minas Capillitas and the corresponding mineral list at MinDat

Canada : Cobalt / Ontario Official Cobalt History Website and A Tour of the Cobalt Silver Mines

Greenland - Ikkafjord : Imperial College Ikkafjord Expeditions and The Ikaite Homepage

Mexico - Naica Crystal Caves : Excellent documentation of the Naica Crystal Cave here in english and espanol including online diary here and here : Jochen Duckeks showcave.com website

USA - Crystal Cave, Ohio : Website about Crystal Cave, Ohio

USA - Harding mine : Harding mine website

USA - Lechuguilla Cave : Website of Urs Widmer

Asia :

Japan - Ichinokawa stibinite : Mineralogisches Institut Hamburg, Germany and Ikuno Mine Museum, Japan

Malaysia - Amber in Sarawak : Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart, Germany

Turkmenistan - Kap Kutan : Kap-Kutan website of V. Maltsev

Australia & Oceania : No links yet

Europe :

Germany - Erzgebirge, Saxony : Freiberger Geowissenschaftliche Sammlungen

Germany - Hühnerkobel pegmatite : Hühnerkobel page (in german)

Germany - Merkers potash mine : Erlebnisbergwerk Merkers Homepage (in german)