Favorite Orange County links:

• Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
• Surfrider Foundation
• Laguna Beach Visitor's Bureau
• Festival of Arts and the Pageant of the Masters
• John Wayne Airport (YES, in Orange County John Wayne IS the father of our country)-(only 10 miles from Laguna Beach; service by all major airlines)

Pulications:

• Rock and Gem
• Mineralien-welt
• Rocks and Minerals (this one has great appeal and probably the most "user friendly")
• Lapis (the finest European publication!)
• Mineralogical Record (the best in the United States - a MUST for any serious mineral collector)
• Gems and Gemology (under the editorship of Alice Keller, the finest gem publication around!)
• Mineral News

Mineral Museums:

• American Museum of Natural History
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• Houston Museum of Natural Science
• U. S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian)
• Rice Northwest Mineral Museum
• Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
• Sterling Hill Mine and Museum
• University of Delaware
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History

We certainly have not listed all mineral museums - just some of our favorites. The most complete listing I have found is at a page from Oso Minerals entitled U.S. Mineral Museums.

Some of our favorite places to visit on the web:

• Collectors Edge - absolutely beautiful! Wish our own website was this good
• Bibliofind - search for those old, musty books or out of print books here - great fun.
• Trinity Minerals - gosh, John works so hard at this; he is one of the best people on the web!
• Sunnywood Collection - a visual delight and the mountings are something I would recommend for beautiful display
• Rocks of Ages -John and Linda Stimson are good people, with good books - have fun!
• Black Hills Institute of Geological Science - my favorite fossils guys - want a complete dinosaur? They'll have one for you!
• The Gemmary - incredible scientific instruments and so much to learn about them.
• Crystal Classics - your absolute best source for English classics as well as fine world-wide specimens- a beautiful well organized web site.

AND....probably the most important web site in mineralogy: www.mindat.org