New video/DVD: Lava Flows and Lava Tubes (also avail from Amazon)

Mineral labelling software - Freeware
http://www.osomin.com/MINLABEL.HTM

Earth Science week
Timing is good for us this year (13-19th of October) and as we are preparing for our Symposium we should give some thought to how we can promote Earth Science within the community. Several suggestions are given in the link below but perhaps the easiest way is to put together a slide show of  micros with name and location on CD and try to get the library or a local business to run it in a public area. Posters and other info can be obtained from Tasha (tasha.black@rsnz.org) or Daphne
(daphne.lee@stonebow.otago.ac.nz)

Links for items in the Feb 2002 Micro-Scope.
Some imaging links from Canada + some good info on old microscopes
 http://www.microimaging.ca/Imaging.htm
AstroStack is a freeware program to load and combine a set of pictures (from an AVI video or a sequence of bitmaps) and make it into a detailed and
noise free image.
 http://utopia.ision.nl/users/rjstek/english/software/index.htm
This Mineral Atlas has been prepared by BRGM with the assistance of the French Ministry of Education and Research and the support of the Natural History
Museum in Paris.
 http://webmineral.brgm.fr:8003/mineraux/Main.html
Learn why minerals have the colors they do
 http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/#Colors
Handbook of Mineralogy, Vol. II - Silicates free on the web
 http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Handbook/Handbook.lasso
MINERAL IDENTIFICATION PROJECT - This site is designed to determine the type of mineral or minerals in a rock sample.
 http://www.ironorchid.com/minerals/
ProScope (Digital Microscope) by Scalar
 http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1470%2526a%253D21501,00.asp
All about digital cameras
 http://www.digitalsauces.com/
Mikon E-shop for micro boxes, fold-up boxes etc
 http://www.mikon-online.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=44_30&PHPSESSID=527f09508ff433ce987dcb248331cb69
 

Links for items in the Nov 2001 Micro-Scope.
Zeolite links
 http://members.aol.com/Vbetz/Zeolite-Links.html
Don Howard
 http://physics.pdx.edu/faculty/how/howard.htm
New zeolites (scroll down to English text)
 http://www.pds.cz/rychly/Turnov97.htm
Geological fonts and symbols
 http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/travel.html
Searchable geological bibliographic databases
 http://gateway-bayern.bib-bvb.de/
Practical Guide to Digital Imaging for Microscopy
 http://www.mwrn.com/technical/camera.htm
Etymology of mineral and rock names
 http://homepage.boku.ac.at/h9440283/eetymol.htm
Quartz crystal photography
 http://www.halcyon.com/nemain/
Links for items in the Sept 2001 Micro-Scope.

Richard Beddek of Microimaging  has agreed to sponsor the Symposium folders and is also going to bring along one of his new microEYE ARGUS videoscopes
to the Symposium. It was interesting to read in "Rocks and Minerals" that our NZ Symposium is one of the longest at four days, so this year we should get a
special mention for our seven day event.
We have 31 people registered of which 29 are coming on the pre-Symposium field trips. All looks well for the Mayor Is trip with all parties giving the OK, all we
need now is good weather.  I've also just received an E-mail from Carl von Blaramberg wanting to pass on his best wishes to all back here in NZ. He had hoped
to travel from the US for the Symposium but the horrific events on the 9/11 has disrupted his travel plans.
On a sadder note we learnt of the sudden death last week of the NZ Rockhounds Club President and Micromineral member Noel Pawson. We send our deepest
sympathy to his wife and children.

I've been fairly busy on Symposium business but have managed to come up with a few good links.
Firstly we have a few links for the symposium:
Mayor Is - diagram showing collapse caldera.  Collecting localities are - Taratimi Bay on the narrowest point of the caldera rim (lower centre), Opo bay at the end
of the track (left hand side) below the headland, Omapu Bay above the same headland
 http://tour.thepeninsula.co.nz/mayorisland.htm
Two links for the optional trips on the Tues after the Symposium - note that Owharoa is the type locality for ignimbrite
 http://tour.thepeninsula.co.nz/karangahake.htm#top
 http://tour.thepeninsula.co.nz/waikino.htm#top

Pages devoted to Deccan Trap zeolites
 http://www.nvo.com/indianminerals/articlesandinformation/

Free web-based databases which are worthwhile for amateur mineralogists looking for mineral data:

http://uncweb.carl.org (will find articles in major mineralogical  journals)

http://www.agiweb.org/georef/preview.html (articles which are about to
be incorporated into GEOREF)

http://database.iem.ac.ru/mincryst/descript.htm (crystal-structure
database, including references)

Several good photo-microscopy articles published recently by "Mic-UK Newsletter:"
Carl Zeiss Photo Microscope
 http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul01/photomic.html
Three ways to take micrographs
 http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug01/wyuphoto.html
Photomicroscopy with a Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera
 http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug01/vrcoolpix.html
A design for using an enlarger stand for photomicrography
 http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug01/tcenlarger.html
nb Ted Clarke recommends the book John Delly's 'Photography Through The Microscope', Kodak Publication P-2, Ninth Edition 1988
Extending the macro capabilities of an Olympus C-2040z digicam
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artaug01/dyoung8.html
Low-cost digital microphotography
 http://ultimobarbaro.tripod.com/en/microphoto.html

Meteorites for sale
 http://www.alaska.net/~meteor/buyint.htm

Links for items in the Jun 2001 Micro-Scope.

Winter project??
Build your own stereo microscope
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/uster/uster.htm

For NZ'ers (note that the trinoc' has been sold to Evan)
Micro-imaging sale
 http://www.microimaging.co.nz:8080/news_links/saleoverview.asp

Micro-mounting articles
 http://www.mineralcollecting.org/articles/

An oldie but a goodie - Evan and I have almost all of the postings for Mineralogy 101 and can supply them as
word docs or PDF files if people want them
 http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/scripts/rocknet/rocknet.shtml
 

Links for items in the Mar 2001
Homepage for the Northern California Mineralogical Association, includes nice image of galkhaite from Getchell mine
on the NCMA info page
http://www.geocities.com/yedlinite/index.htm
Photomicroscopy primer
 http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html
Atlas der Krystallformen - Goldschmidt. Drawings now available online, the site also has free mineral collection software (Minerdat) although appears to only have a German version
 http://www.meinemineraliensammlung.de/Lexikon/Allge-A/Mine-A/Goldschmidt/goldschmidt.html
Rutile
 http://www.mineralminers.com/html/rutminfo.htm
Mineral collecting trips to China and Mexico - As taken by Ron and Sara Keen.
 http://mineralsearch.com/index.html
plus some new micro-images at
 http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~pincha/minerals.html
more micro-images
 http://content.communities.msn.com/PerryPetaliteProspect/PhotoAlbum

Links for  Dec 2000
Stamp showing getchellite
http://stampmin.home.att.net/getchellite.htm
Minerals of Getchell Mine
http://members.fortunecity.com/druss99/getchell.htm
Cavansite
 http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/silicate/cavansit/cavansit.htm
Deccan traps, cavansite and other Indian minerals
 http://www.nvo.com/indianminerals/deccantraps/
Cavansite postcard
 http://romlx6.rom.on.ca/postcards/dyn-earth.html
Radioactive rocks info
 http://www.atomicrocks.com/
Mineral photo index
 http://www.mineralnews.com/PhotoIndex.html

The decision is made, the 2001 Micromineral Symposium will be held at the Christian Camp in the Kauraeranga Valley, Coromandel Peninsula over theweekend 19-23 October. The camp has accommodation for 80 along with conference room and canteen all set on 16 acres of land. I have added some links here to various sites dealing with the Coromandel. The Field trip is hoped to be held on the 309 Road in the north of the Peninsula. Planning is still underway but we hope to be able to offer some small field trips before or after the Symposium for those who wish to stay a little longer

309 Road
 http://www.webtrails.co.nz/coromandel/coromandeltown/309road/
Coromandel Peninsula
 http://tour.thepeninsula.co.nz/index_thepeninsula.htm
Kauaeranga Valley
 http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Geyser/1475/fun/corommandel/kae001.html
Coromandel introduction
 http://www.nzencounters.co.nz/coromandel.html
Kauaeranga activities
 http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~richard/Misc/CoromandelTrip/CoromandelTripOptions.htm
Hiking in the Kauaeranga Valley
 http://www.waikato.ac.nz/geog/rep/ecotourism/tramping/!coromandel.htm
 

I've been updating my bookmarks list and came across a couple of good pages on zeolites
The zeolite homepage of Volker Betz
 http://members.aol.com/vbetz/Zeolites.html
Zeolites corner
 http://users.skynet.be/zeocorner/Welcome2.htm

Everything you could possibly want to know about microscopy esp digital imaging
 http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/micron/microscope/links1.htm
 

AUGUST 2000

Another handy list of references from the people at Micscape
Microscope reviews and buying guidelines
http://www.micscape.simplenet.com/microscopes.html

Useful pieces of advice from the French Micro-mineralogical Society - a mix of normal and on-line references
http://www.micromineral.org/debutant-uk.html
Two articles and a link from this site are
Adhesives
http://www.micromineral.org/afm-uk/Debutant_uk/adhesif_uk.html
Making a mineral cutter (trimmer)
http://www.micromineral.org/afm-uk/Debutant_uk/cisailles-uk.html
Search for mineral locations (and more!)
http://www.zampano.com/minmax/fogeores.php3?lang=US

Mineralogical database - Links to 6000+ webpages, includes XRPD data for minerals and also audio clips for mineral name prononciation.
http://www.webmineral.com

After my trip across to the Austalian Mineralogical Societys Conference at Broken Hill, a couple of plugs
Mineralogy and Petrology at Museum Victoria
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/mineralogy/welcome.html
The Australian Mineral Collector
http://www.mineral.org.au
And Steve Sorrell has moved his “Main Adit” to
http://www.crocoite.com

After featuring in both “Mineralogical Record” and “Rocks and Minerals”, the source for the sceptres and “Herkimer diamonds”
http://treasuremt.com

Jocelyn excerped this paper recently but the whole paper is now available for free download from the “American Mineralogist” site
Recommended nomenclature for zeolite minerals
http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/AmMineral.html

Articles on minerals and collecting from “Ososoft Mineral Connection”
http://www.osomin.com/articles.htm

A handy ref for anyone heading up to Copper country (Keweenaw) - a list of mines, locations and associated minerals
http://www.portup.com/~swhelan/ccrmc/KewWeek/KWmnl.html

And just to finish - some more digital photography links
http://equip.zdnet.com/digitalimaging/cameras/feature/169aa/
http://www.osomin.com/microsco.htm
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun00/dyoung2.html

ps
Just in, a new site run out of Victoria University  in Wellington on geology related field trips in New Zealand. Possibly even some jobs available!
http://www.nzrocks.com/index.htm
--
MAY 2000

1.Possible venue for a symposium at Coromandel     http://www.whitianga.co.nz/riverglen/
2.Chinese microscopes   http://www.beijingtech.net/m_stereo.htm
                                    http://www.chinamarket.com.cn/E/Showdetail/1292.html
                                    http://phenix.asia4sale.com/
3.Reconditioned fibre-optic lights             http://www.mcbinst.com/recon02.htm
4.Volcano trekking story           http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/stories/volcano
5.Fibre-optic illumination and digital cameras   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar00/rboptics.html
6.Video microscope/macroscope project       http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr00/abvideo.html
7.Better depth of focus in digital microscopy      http://www.rmcain.com/pageserver.mv?MCAMAAdv10
8.Digital microscopy forum                      http://www.rmcain.com/forum/bbs.mv
9.Mineral news online       http://www.mineralnews.com/MinNews/Sample15-4.html
10.US mineralogical literature list online      http://home.bluemarble.net/~hbarwood/minerals/minpgelem/minlitlist.html
     mailto:GeoliterarySociety-subscribe@egroups.com
11.White Island images      http://www.gns.cri.nz/earthact/volcanoes/wiphot.htm
12.Mont Saint-Hilaire (Alkali-Nuts)    http://www.ssc.on.ca/mandm/mshhome.html
13.Tucson Show                               http://www.tucsonshow.com/index.shtml
14.Minerals of Ruatapu Cave     http://www.minersoc.org/MinM2000641.htm
15.2000 NZ Micro-mineral Symposium   http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~pincha/minerals2.htm

Most of the above have been gathered from info posted on various newsgroups

FEB 2000

Links for this issue are

 Intel's QX3 video microscope                              http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec99/rbqx3.html

 Microscopy UK - Video and digital still cameras       http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec99/dwdigi.html

 Secret weapons for mineral collectors                   http://www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com/jhbnyc/articles/tools.htm

 References for mineral collectors                         http://www.johnbetts-fineminerals.com/jhbnyc/articles/refernc1.htm

 Aust. and NZ mineral collectors site                     http://www.homestead.com/mainadit/

 Home built fibre optic light source                       http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan00/rbfiber.html

Build your own Van Leeuwenhoek microscope     http://www.sirius.com/~alshinn/Leeuwenhoekplans.html

Quartz                                                               http://www.galleries.com/minerals/silicate/quartz.htm

Many of you may not be aware that most Geology related journals now allow free downloading of articles via the internet. How long this will continue is unsure but it is worth a trawl through some of the articles. A listing of on-line journals is at
     http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/geol/geoljnl.htm  and
     http://pinti.geol.u-psud.fr/Homepage/Journal.htm
A good page of links for geology is at
     http://www.geocities.com/geoseek/
and a micro-mineral link site is at
     http://www.element51.com/links.htm