Web sites

Mineralogy Databases

http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral

http://mineral.galleries.com/Minerals/By_Name.htm

Atlas of Minerals in Thin Section

http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/minerals/minerals.html

Mineralogy Courses/Lecture Notes on the Web

This site provides links to a wide variety of Mineralogy Courses:

http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anoncoursemineral.html

    Colorado

http://xtl5.colorado.edu/~smyth/syl3010.html

http://ruby.colorado.edu/~smyth/min/minerals.html

    Oregon

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jrice/geol_311/geol_311.html

    Idaho

http://www.uidaho.edu/~mgunter/geol249/geol249.html

Wisconsin

Note: the above links are copied from Prof. Thomas Duffy’s Web site.

Journals

American Mineralogist

Canadian Mineralogist

European Journal of Mineralogy

Mineralogical Magazine

Mineralogical Record

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Books

An introduction to the Rock Forming Minerals, 2nd Edition, by W. A. Deer, R. A. Howie, J. Zussman

Earth's Materials: Minerals and Rocks, by Gautam Sen

Encyclopedia of Mineral Names, by W.H. Blackburn, W.H. Dennen

Introduction to Mineral Sciences, by Andrew Putnis

Introduction to Mineralogy, by William D. Nesse

Minerals, Their constitution and origin, by Hans-Rudolf Wenk and Andrei Bulakh