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Willamette Agate and Mineral Society, Inc.

Washington Agate and Mineral Society

Oregon Coast Agate Club

 

Local Area & Regional Clubs

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Geological Society (Philadelphia)

Delaware Valley Paleontological Society (Plymouth Meeting)

Central Pennsylvania Rock and Mineral Club, Inc. (Harrisburg)

Che-Hanna Rock and Mineral Club, Inc. (Sayre)
     (Host to the 2005 EFMLS Convention)

Gem City Rock and Mineral Society (Erie)

Friends of Mineralogy--Pennsylvania Chapter

The Mineralogical Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania (Moosic)

Nittany Mineralogical Society (State College)

Tuscarora Lapidary Society (Media)

Leidy Microscopical Society (Holicong)

Philadelphia Mineralogical Society (Philadelphia)

Berks Mineralogical Society (Reading)

Beaver County Rock And Mineral Society (Beaver Falls)

Delaware Valley Lapidary And Mineral Society (Newtown Square)

Franklin County Rock And Mineral Club (Chambersburg)

Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania

Monongahela Rockhounds (Pittsburgh)

Moraine Rockbusters (Allison Park)

Pennsylvania Earth Sciences Association (Allentown)

Rock And Mineral Club Of Lower Bucks County (Croydon)


Maryland

Maryland Geological Society (Baltimore)

Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore, Inc. (Glyndon)

Gem, Lapidary, and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, MD., Inc. (Rockville)

Maryland Geological Society (Bowie)

Southern Maryland Rock and Mineral Club (Clinton)

Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club (Solomons)

Baltimore Mineral Society, Inc. (Lutherville)

Chesapeake Gem And Mineral Society, Inc. (Frederick)

Patuxent Lapidary Guild (Ft. Meade)

American Fossil Federation (Arnold)

New Jersey

Delaware Valley Earth Science Society (Maple Shade)

New Jersey Paleontological Society (Paramus)

Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society (Franklin)

Cape-Atlantic Rockhounds (Dorothy)

Mineralogists’ Guild (Neshanic Station)

Morris Museum Mineralogical Society (Morristown)

Bergen County Mineralogy & Paleontology Society, Inc. (Englewood)

Geology Club of New Jersey (Warren)

Mineralogical And Lapidary Society Of The Raritan Valley (Hillsborough)

Monmouth Mineral And Gem Club, Inc. (Wall)

New Jersey Lapidary Society, Inc. (Ocean)

New Jersey Mineralogical Society, Inc. (Cranford)

North Jersey Mineralogical Society, Inc. (Fairlawn)

Tri-County Mineral And Lapidary Society (Freehold)

Virginia

The Gem And Mineral Hunters, Inc. (Prince William County)

Northern Virginia Mineral Club, Inc. (Arlington)


Washington, D. C.

The Mineralogical Society of the District of Columbia (D. C.)

 

New York

Wayne County Gem & Mineral Club (Newark)


Florida

Tampa Bay Mineral And Science Club (Tampa)

Tampa Bay Fossil Club (Palm Harbor)

Central Florida Mineral & Gem Society

Around the United States

Fossils

Aurora Fossil Museum, Aurora, NC

Friends of Aurora Fossil Museum, Aurora, NC

Northwest Paleontological Association

Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois (ESCONI)

ELASMO

Kentucky Paleontological Society

PaleoWorld Research Foundation

PaleoPatti's Dinosaur and Fossil Digs Website

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)

The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)

Nashua Mineral Society (NMS)

Lapidary Clubs

Alabama Mineral & Lapidary Society

Lincoln Gem & Mineral Club

Mississippi Gem and Mineral Society

International Lapidary Association

Other Rock Clubs of Interest

Georgia Mineral Society

The British and Irish Meteorite Society

Everett Rock & Gem Club

Houston Gem & Mineral Society

Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society

San Francisco Gem and Mineral Society, Inc.

The Toledo Gem and Rockhound Club

University of Delaware Geology Club

National or International Societies

Mineralogical Society of America

Friends of Mineralogy

The Geochemical Society

The Fluorescent Mineral Society

 

College & University Geology Departments (nearby)

University of Delaware Geology Department

University of Delaware College of Marine & Earth Studies

Bryn Mawr College Geology Department

Lehigh University Earth & Environmental Sciences

University of Pennsylvania Department of Earth & Environmental Science

Penn State University Geosciences Department

Rutgers Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences

University of Maryland Department of Geology

Virginia Tech Geosciences

West Virginia University Department of Geology & Geography

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Department of Geological Sciences

SUNY Potsdam Geology Department

SUNY Cortland Geology Department

 

Geological Surveys

Delaware Geological Survey

Maryland Geological Survey

New Jersey Geological Survey

New York Division of Mineral Resources

North Carolina Geological Survey

Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

 

Area Museums

Delaware

University of Delaware Mineralogical Museum

Iron Hill Museum, Newark, DE

Washington, D. C.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Gem & Mineral Collection

Pennsylvania

The Franklin (Philadelphia)

The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences

New Jersey

The Franklin Mineral Museum (Franklin)

The Sterling Hill Mining Museum (Ogdensburg)

 

U. S. Museums

 

Weinman Mineral Museum (Cartersville, Georgia)

A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum (Michigan Tech, Houghton, Michigan)

Montana Tech Mineral Museum (Butte, Montana)

New Mexico Tech Mineralogical Museum (Socorro, New Mexico)

Mineral & Lapidary Museum of Henderson County, North Carolina

Proctor Museum of Natural Science (Houston, Texas)

 

Parks

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Rockhound State Park (Deming, New Mexico)

 

For Juniors

American Federation's Junior Page

Diamond Dan's webpage for Young Mineralogists

Petrified Wood article at Wikipedia.org

Your Gemologist “Petrified Wood” for Kids!

dig’s State-by-State Guide to Archaeology and Paleontology Events for Kids, Families, and Schools

Gator Girl Rocks

The Geologic Time Scale (USGS)

Cool Stuff

Mt. St. Helens Volcano Cam (USDA Forest Service)

USGS Volcano Cams around the world

"The Mysterious Life of Caves" at PBS.org

GeoAdventures in Delaware by the Delaware Geological Survey

The Ancient Digger (Dinosaurs, Archaeology, and more!)

Terryco, the home of eArt Scanning (Dr. Terry Proctor)

 

Herkimer Diamonds

Herkimer Diamonds at Crystal Grove Campground

Herkimer Diamond Mines and KOA Resort

Ace of Diamonds Mine and Campground

"Fossilpalooza" Links

Ashfall State Historical Park, Antelope County, NE

George C. Page Museum (La Brea Tar Pits), L.A., CA

University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE

 

Fossil Dealers

Miller's Fossils (Don Miller)

Harstein's Fossils (Gene Hartstein)

 

Mineral Dealers

Broken Back Minerals (Eric Meier)

 

Online Resources

Rock Clubs & Societies Interactive U. S. Map at MapMuse.com

Rock Shops Interactive U. S. Map at MapMuse.com

Mineral Identification Key

Moh's Scale of Hardness

Geologic Time Scale (from the USGS)

Mineral Information Institute

Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements (from the Los Alamos Laboratory)

Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements (from MIT)

Fluorite: A Global Quest for the Perfect Crystal

"Petrified Wood, Part I" Article (Our March 4-5, 2006 Show Theme)

"Petrified Wood, Part II" Article (Our March 4-5, 2006 Show Theme)

"The World of Agates" Article (Our March 5-6, 2005 Show Theme)

"Calcite: Crystals, Caves and Vugs" Article

Kreigh's Web Resources Collection for Rockhounds

First State Geology ( a semi-annual Delaware Geological Survey Publication)

Pennsylvania Geology online (a quarterly Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey publication)

Bob's Rock Shop

"The Vug" Web Portal

Download Free Public Domain Mineralogy Books!

Thinkfinity

e-Bay


Internationally

The Scottish Mineral & Lapidary Club

Gem & Mineral Federation of Canada

Central Canadian Federation of Mineralogical Societies

Scottish Agates by David G. Anderson

Agates from Hungary by Tivadar Pésci

The Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium

The International Thumbnail Mineral Collectors Association (ITMCA)

Mindat.org

Ricardo & Claudia Birnie's Agates from Argentina Site

Ricardo & Claudia Birnie's Agate Photos at Flickr

Gemstones of Jewelry

Cynthia's Gemstones

Canadian Minerals

 


Visitors,

If you would like to suggest a link to your rock, mineral, fossil, or lapidary club;  or, want to offer a non-commercial, 'related to our hobby' resource, please e-mail me at: kencasey@delminsociety.net.

After reviewing your link for appropriateness to our hobby, we may post it.

Also, if you know of a link to the clubs that I have listed above, please let me know.   We would like to keep current, too.   So, if you have an updated link, please e-mail me.  Thanks.

Ken Casey,
Webmaster

 Questions & Comments: info@delminsociety.net

This page last updated:  February 22, 2010 07:06:16 PM

Next Meeting
 

March Program:

"There and back again; a rockhound's tale" by Tom Pankratz

General Club Meeting:
March 8, 2010
(Monday)

We are meeting at
Greenbank Mill


Special Meetings:
 EFMLS Banquet, March 6, 2010

Show Committee Meeting, Wednesday,
February 24, 2010

2010 Spring Board Meeting

Next Field Trips
 

Fieldtrips!

Past Fieldtrips
 

Next EFTA Trips
For more info:
EFTA
Next Show
DMS March Show
March 6-7, 2010

Hosts for the EFMLS 60th Annual Convention


Our 2010 Show Theme:
"50 States, 50 Minerals"

March Show 2009 Report

Updates!

 

EFMLS Banquet Tickets

Show Volunteers Needed

Display Case Entries Due

 
Articles

 

Fossil Forum


"Dinny, the Dino"

"Belemnites are coming"

 

February MOTM

Coming soon!

"Another neighboring state's mineral"
Can you guess?

Past MOTM

Collecting Adventure Stories:

"Sunny Brook Crick Goethite" by Joe Dunleavy