Fluorite octahedrons at the Clement Mineral Museum.

The fruits of a day of collecting geodes.

The Lily Pad Room in Onondaga Cave.

Mars Rover, from above; Wash U Planetary Sciences Bldg

Yellow with purple fluorite.

Mount Saint Helens

Dolomite

The Tully Monster, Illinois State Fossil

Fluorite on fluorite, from Kentucky.

Basalt columns at the Giant's Causeway, Ireland

Saint Louis, Missouri



Links of Interest

This page has some links from all over the world of interest to Rockhounds. Most of them are in the United States, but not all. The St. Louis Mineral & Gem Society hopes you enjoy "mining the web" for ideas on that next big collecting trip! Will it be to De Soto, or to Coober Pedy?


Museums


Mount St. Helens live webcam

A static image (updated every five minutes) of Mount St. Helens, Washington USA, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The summit of Mount St. Helens is at an elevation of 2,549 Meters (8,364 feet), at 46.20 N, 122.18 W. The summit stood at 9,677 feet before the May 18, 1980, eruption. The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet, about five miles from the volcano. You are looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley. The Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam is brought to you by the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Vancouver, Washington, and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Amboy, Washington USA.

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