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  • 4 Facets. - Information about lapidary, collecting gems and rock hounding. Offers tumbling equipment and also gifts.
  • A Virginia Rockhounder - Husband-and-wife team share general rockhounding information, display specimens, and fossil collection.
  • A Virginia Rockhounder's Web Site - Includes articles about Virginia mineralogy and localities, general rockhound information and a calendar of local events.
  • About.com - Kids' Collecting Rocks and Minerals page. The starting point for kids, with index of related websites.
  • Agate Nodule Minerals Fossils Specimens - Beautiful Agates provides agate specimens including Queensland, Mexican, Brazilian, Condor, Fairburn, Dryhead, Botswana, Lake Superior, minerial and fossils.
  • Blue Hollow Sapphire Mine and Fossicking Park - Sapphire mine located near Sapphire in Central Queensland, Australia. Learn about sapphires and where to go fossicking for them when you visit Central Queensland.
  • Bobs Rock Shop - Online ezine for mineral collectors, rockhounds and lapidary hobbyists. Contains news section.
  • Boris' Mineral Collection - Enthusiasts's site describes mineral collection, features a photo gallery, locations and the list of specimens.
  • Cape Cod Rocks - Pictorial museum, exhibiting gems, fossils, rocks, and mineral specimens.
  • Cape-Atlantic Rockhounds - Club for enthusiasts based in Cologne, NJ. Rock collecting, lapidary, geology, mineralogy, shows and related activities.
  • Castleton Rocks - Shows photographs of the Castleton area of Derbyshire - a place for fossil hunting and rockhounding.
  • Cliff's Gems and Bobbie's Things - Fire agate for all for collectors and hobbyists.
  • Collecting and Polishing British Rocks - Pictures of polished igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and information on how to collect and polish them. Some descriptions of rock forming minerals also available.
  • Convair Rockhound Association - Family-oriented club, located in San Diego, CA. Activities include field trips, monthly meetings, jewelry making and shows.
  • Cyberwall: Minerals - Information to aid the rock and mineral collector
  • ELS Jr. Rockhounds - Club is located in Evansville, Indiana, and open to youngsters ages 9-16. Study earth sciences, field trips and shows.
  • Gem Guides Book Company - Book distributor of books on gems, rockhounding, crystals, mineral collecting, lapidary and jewelrymaking.
  • Geology Adventures - Founded in 1983. Book rockhounding field trips for clubs and organizations.
  • Hinkle's Rock Shop & Opal Mine - Specialize in Oregon thundereggs as well as various other Oregon materials. Plus home for the Rock Shops Opal Mine. Includes sharp photographs.
  • Interior British Columbia - Geology and paleontology tours. Photographs of recent mineral and fossil finds in and around the Kamloops area.
  • Kamloops Rock Works - Tours for rockhounds, including: McAbee fossil beds, McGillivray quartz crystals, and Fraser River jade tour.
  • Kentucky Agate Collecting - Personal collection of Kentucky agate and other materials. Related links page, including clubs.
  • Kreigh's Web Resources - A large collection of links and original information for Rockhounds about geology, minerals, fossils, lapidary, rock clubs, and other related subjects. Many dealer sites have also been included.
  • Littleton Gem and Mineral Club - The LGMC assists in the enjoyment of finding, procuring, collecting, processing, identifying, exchanging, and displaying gems, minerals, fossils and jewelry as a hobby.
  • Loch's Mineral Trading Post - Rockhound enthusiast's site containing photos of mineral specimens for trade and viewing.
  • Luminoscope Corporation - Manufacturers of the Luminoscope - a cathodoluminescence instrument designed to examine geological samples.
  • Marco's Italian Minerals - Private collection, trade lists, research; and exchange experiences with other rockhounds. Only site that trades exclusively in Italian, or alpine minerals.
  • Mineral Search Safaris - Mineral Safaris to China, Mexico, Tanzania and Peru. Portal to the world of mineral collecting.
  • Minerals, Specimens and Crystals - Online link direct to the mines and lapidary shops for mineral specimens and crystals, display specimens, unique decorator and collector pieces.
  • MinMax - Mineral Information system - Searchable, interactive database of minerals, localities and other rockhounding information.
  • Nikolay Gospodinov Collection - Bilingual Russian and English language site with photos and information on the mineral and fossil collection of Nikolay Gospodinov.
  • Norwegian Rockhound - Photos of Norwegian minerals, with short descriptions of the geological parageneses they were found in.
  • Rare Earth Minerals - Mining trips to the mountains of North Carolina.
  • Rick Westerholm's Idaho Gem Trails Page - Rock hounding site featuring photos of gem and mineral specimens collected in the state of Idaho.
  • Rock Hound's Home - Intended to give those individuals interested in rocks, minerals, and lapidary, a source for information on the earth sciences, and supporting organizations.
  • Rockhound - Located on the rugged west slope of the Little Florida Mountains, the park is a favorite for "rockhounds" because of the abundant agates and quartz crystals found there. Hiking trails provide spectacular views of the surrounding landscape.
  • Rockhound Corner's - Extensive collections of rocks and minerals, rare books on the subject, and related links. Bilingual.
  • Rockhound Retiring - Selling collection recovered over 40 years of rockhounding. Some lapidary equipment, jewelry mountings, tumbled agates, and matching western bolo ties and buckles.
  • Rockhounding Arkansas - An authoritative and comprehensive guide to Arkansas geology, minerals, and the hobby of rockhounding. Written by the well known geologist Mike Howard.
  • Rockhounds Information Page - Link list and information about the rockhounds mailing list.
  • Rocks and Minerals - Site describing the basics of rocks and minerals and how they are used in everyday life.
  • Rocks Rock. - Beginners information about geology and collecting and documenting rocks.
  • Stone Trails - Pacific-Northwest gem, mineral and fossil locations, with information to assist the rockhound.
  • Tucson Gem and Mineral Show Guide - Information and show schedules for the annual Tucson Gem and Mineral Show featuring extensive illustrated reports by Bob Keller.
  • Virgin Valley Opals - Some of the most beautiful and rarest opals in the world come from Virgin Valley, Nevada. Includes collection sites, geology and history of the area.
  • Where To Find Agate - Online locator service for all types, shape and sizes of Agate.
  • World of Rockhounds - Rockhound chat and list serv. Three lists and two chat rooms available. One for rock talk, one for selling products, and one for finalizing your sales. Also promotes a banner exchange.
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