Mailing lists and discussion groups |
Join the ECA-SIG5 Mailing List!
SDPD Mailing list (Structure Determination by Powder Diffraction)
X-Ray diffraction users discussion list
Crystal Growth discussion list
X-ray instrumentation and software
MSA-Talk - Mineralogical Society of America Discussion List (no archives)
Mineralogy-Petrology-Geochemistry Community Discussion Board
Clays Minerals Society Discussion List (no archives)
Mindat forum - Discussion board of Mindat.org
Dutch language discussion list (Antwerpen mineral collectors)
Newsgroup: techniques/crystallography (needs a newsreader) - and its home page
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Newsgroup: mineralogy (needs a newsreader)
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Newsgroup: spectroscopy (needs a newsreader)
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Organizations |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
CIMS - Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures
European Crystallographic Association (ECA)
British Crystallographic Association (BCA)
German Crystallographic Association (DGK)
Czech and Slovak Crystallographic Association (CSCA)
American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
Swiss Society of Crystallography
Crystallographic Society of Japan (CRJ)
Egyptian Society of Crystallography
Moroccan Society of Crystallography (in French)
Association Française de Cristallographie (in French)
AIC - Italian Crystallographic Association (in Italian)
International Mineralogical Association (IMA)
European Mineralogical Union (EMU)
European Union of Geosciences (EUG)
International Council for Applied Mineralogy
Mineralogical Association of Canada
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Russian Mineralogical Society (RMS)
Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology
Mineralogical Society of Finland
Mineralogical Society of Poland
Mineralogical Society of Japan (MSJ)
Bulgarian Mineralogical Society (BMS)
Mineralogical Association of South Africa
Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG) (in German)
Österreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft (in German)
Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie (SFMC) (in French)
Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP) (in Italian)
Sociedad Mexicana de Mineralogía (in Spanish)
Sociedad Española de Mineralogía (in Spanish)
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Other SIGs of the ECA |
SIG#1 - Macromolecular Crystallography
SIG#2 - Charge, Spin and Momentum Density
SIG#4 - Electron Crystallography
SIG#6 - Instrumentation and Experimental Techniques
SIG#7 - Molecular Interaction and Recognition
SIG#9 - Crystallographic Computing
SIG#10 - X-ray diffraction physics and optics
SIG#11 - Crystallography under Extreme Conditions and Optics
SIG#13 - Molecular structure and chemical properties
Resources |
Forthcoming Schools, workshops, meetings
IUCr Online Dictionary of Crystallography
The IMA Nomenclature of Minerals
Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of IMA
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Mineral database - computerized mineral reference book containing data for more than 4800 mineral species, now available from Materials Data at reduced cost.
MinAbs - a database derived from the Mineralogical Abstracts. A personal password is needed for running the full version (the password is provided free of charge for bona fide academics and students). If the link doesn't work, see the mirror server here.
ICSD - Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
ICSD for WWW - Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
Atlas of crystallographic forms (in French)
Space groups (in French)
Crystallographic programs in Visual Basic and Java Applets (in French)
Handbook of Mineralogy - Volume II - Silicates (provided by MSA)
Geometry of crystals - with nice animations, but only for high-symmetry polyhedra!
DRWAxtl - display crystal structrues in VRML, POV-RAY and openGL formats
Elements - an International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrology
The Virtual Museum of the History of Mineralogy
Crystallographic Software |
Bilbao Crystallographic Server
OBLIQUE Home Page - DEAD LINK - if you know the new address let us know!
The k-vector type of space groups
Crystallographic programs in Visual Basic and Java Applets (in French)
Crystallographic Computer Programs by Prof. Mario Nardelli
Optical properties of minerals
Browsers and utilities |
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