Commercial Mineral Data

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Mineralogy Data For Sale

Commercial digital sources of mineralogy data. These sources of mineral data can be purchased for use on stand-alone computers and do not need an internet connection. Prices range from $50.00 to $5,000.00 and they come with a wide variety of different features.

	Aleph Enterprises and the CSIRO Division of Mineral Products are offering for sale the Windows and Macintosh versions of MINERAL, a computerized mineral reference book containing data for more than 4800 minerals.
	GEOLIB is a Shareware Mineralogical database that contains all minerals approved by the IMA, mineral systematics, literature references, variant names, and a cataloging system for your collection, with automatic reference to mineral.
	Fersman Mineralogical Museum Minspec v.3.3, This database includes data for names, chemical formulas, crystal systems, space groups, cell parameters, physical properties, genesis and appearance for more than 4000 known mineral species
	International Centre for Diffraction Data provides their PDF-2 Powder Diffraction File,  a collection of single-phase X-ray powder diffraction patterns in the form of tables of interplanar spacings (d) and relative intensities (Int) and chemical name and formula as well as mineral name.
	Manual of Mineralogy (after James D. Dana), 21st Ed. by Cornelis Klein (Univ. of New Mexico) and Cornelius S. Hurlbut (Harvard Univ.). The CD features color photographs of over 125 minerals; 3-D Models and Animations.
	MatIdent (Systematik in der Mineralogie) is a Mineralogical Database used to identify minerals. It contains the most important chemical, physical, optical and X-ray diffraction data available anywhere for approximately 4,200 minerals.
	MinAbs by Peter Susse is a database drawn from the Mineralogical Abstracts. The 5th edition, 1997, covers - for the first time - all volumes of the Mineralogical Abstracts from the beginning, Vol. 1(1920/22), up to Vol. 48(1997). It contains about 20,000 mineral entries.
	MinIdent from Micronex is aimed primarily at mineral identification on the basis of properties ranging from chemical composition to X-ray, optical and physical data. The database includes detailed information on some 4760 minerals.
	Mineral Database for sale from Geologyone.com.  Your Site for Earth Science Software and Information.
	Mineral News -- The Mineral Collector's Newsletter (formerly from Lanny Ream), is published monthly and is filled with timely articles about field collecting, descriptive mineralogy and new mineral finds by Tony Nikischer of Excalibur Minerals.
	Photographic Guide to Mineral Species from Excalibur Minerals features an original collection of rare mineral photographs. This CD has well over 5,000 original, never-before published mineral photographs representing 3,000 different species
	The Photo Atlas of Minerals is a windows CD-ROM featuring more than 6,500 high-resolution images, descriptive data for all known minerals. For sale from The Gem & Mineral Council of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
	The Study of Minerals is a comprehensive learning tool for anyone interested in minerals. Learn about how crystals form, their symmetry, chemical composition, and properties.