Sites containing mineral or locality information as online databases. Follow the links below

Ed's Gemlite Software - A Cataloguing and Reference Database for Mineral, Rock and Gemstone Collectors, Curators and Professionals in the Earth Sciences. Mindat - One of the most comprehensive sites on the internet for mineral and location information, as well as discussion threads, searching capabilities, images, and more. Webmineral - An excellent mineralogy database with over 5,000 pages of mineralogical data from David Barthelmy. Topaz Mineral Database - a mineral database management system running under Windows’95 or Windows’98 which provides descriptions on thousands of mineral species, synonyms, varieties and generic terms as well as querying, editing and many other facilities MinMax Mineral Information System - a search facility helps you to locate mines and minerals in a particular country or region (in German and English) Atlas of Rocks, Minerals, and Textures, part of the "virtual geology" project at the University of North Carolina British Mining Database - a central point to find information about mines throughout the UK and Ireland EUROMIN Project - visit some of the main european mineral collections and browse through the most important pieces of their cultural heritage Virtual Atlas of Opaque and Ore Minerals - This virtual atlas contains nearly four hundred colour photomicrographs, each accompanied by a description and used to illustrate common mineral assemblages UK Minerals and Locations Database, set up and maintained by the Natural History Museum