Societies & Organizations

Journals (technical mineral-related publications)

Magazines (broad interest mineral-related publications)

Community of Interest websites - 

List of mineralogical, lapidary and fossil clubs in the USA - 

List of mineralogical, lapidary and fossil clubs in Canada - 

List of mineralogical, lapidary and fossil clubs in Europe (and elsewhere) -

Societies & Organizations

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -
American Ceramic Society -
American Chemical Societies' Geochemistry Division -
American Crystallographic Association (ACA) - 
American Federation of Mineralogical Societies (AFMS) - 
American Geological Institute (AGI) - 
American Geophysical Union (AGU) - 
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) (AIME) - 
American Rock Mechanics Association (AGU) - 
Association Française de Microminéralogie (AFM) - 
Association of Italian Micromounters (AMI) - 
Asociacion Cordobesa de Mineralogia y Paleontologia -  
Association of Applied Geochemists - (AAG)
Association of Exploration Geochemists (AEG) -
Australian Clay Minerals Society (AEG) -
British Crystallographic Association (BCA) -
Bulgarian Mineralogical Society (BMS) -
Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW) -
Clay Minerals Society (CMS) -
Collaborative Computational Project Number 14 (CCP 14) -
Commission on Powder Diffraction (CPD) - 
Croatian Mineralogical Association -
Crystallographic Society of Japan (CSJ) -
Deutsche Gemmologische Gesellschaft - 
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kristallwachstum und Kristallzuchtung - 
Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG) - 
Deutsche Ton- und Tonmineralgruppe - 
European Association for Geochemistry (EAG) - 
European Ceramic Society - 
European Crystallographic Association (ECA) -
European Mineralogical Union (EMU) - 
Fluorescent Mineral Society (FMS) -
Friends of Mineralogy (FM) - 
Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain (GAGTL) -
Gemological Association of Australia (GAA) - 
Gemological Institute of America (GIA) - 
Geochemical Society (GS) - 
Geological Society (GS - London) -
Geological Society of America (GSA) -
Gruppo Mineralogico Cremonese -
Gruppo Nationale di Petrografia (GNP)-
Hudson Institute of Mineralogy (HIM)
International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (IAGC) -
International Association for the study of Clays (IAPEA) -
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) -
International Calcite Collectors Association (ICCA) -
International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) - 
International Fluorite Collectors Association (IFCA) -
International Colored Gem Association -
International Marine Minerals Society (IMMS) - 
International Mineralogical Association (IMA) -
IMA's Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) -
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) -
International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) -
International X-ray Analaysis Society (IXAS) - 
International Natural Zeolite Association (IZA) -
Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) -
Materials Research Society (MRS) -
Metamorphic Studies Group (MSG) -
Meteoritical Society (MS) -
Mexican Mineralogical Society () -
Microscopy Society of America (MS) -
Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) - 
Mineralogical Society of Finland
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland - 
Mineralogical Society of Japan - 
Mineralogical Society of Poland -
Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen - Mineralogy Club of Antwerp -
Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)-
National Speleological Society (NSS) -
Osterreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft (OMG) -
Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands (KNGMG) -
Russell Society - UK society specialising in topographical mineralogy
Russian Mineralogical Society (VMO) -
Societe Francaise de Mineralogie et de Cristallographie (SFMC) -
Society of Crystallogaphers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ) -
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) -
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) -
Society for Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy (SLMS) - 
Society of Mineral Museum Professionals (SMMP) - 
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) - 
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) - 
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) - 
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) - 
Structure Commission of the International Zeolite Association (IZA-SC) -
Schweizerische Gesellschaft fur Kirstallographie (SSCR) - 
Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrologische Gesellschaft (SSMP) - 
Sociedad Espanola de Mineralogia (SEM) -
Societa Geochimica Italiana (So.Ge.I.) -
Societa Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia (SIMP) -
Society for Applied Spectroscopy -
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc (SME) -
Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) -
Society of Economic Geologists/A> (SEG) -
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) -
Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) -
Svenska Mineralogiska Sallskapet -
Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology -
Tucson Gem & Mineral Society (TGMS) -
Ukrainskie Mineralogichne Tovaristvo -
Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie (VFMG) - 
Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) -
Volcanological Society of Japan -

Journals

American Journal of Science (AJS) - 
American Mineralogist (AM) - 
Annual Review, Publisher of Earth and Planetary Sciences - 
Australian Clay Minerals Society (ACMS) -
Australian Gemologist -
Boletín de Mineralogía -
Bulletin of Volcanology - 
Canadian Mineralogist - 
Chemical Geology - 
Clay and Clay Minerals -
Clay Minerals -
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (CMP) -
Earth & Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) -
Economic Geology -
Electronic Geoscience - 
European Journal of Mineralogy - 
Experimental Earth - Virtual Journal - 
Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences (Ganseki Kobutsu Kagaku) -
Gems & Gemology -
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-cubed e-journal) -
Geochimica et Cosmochimica (GC) - 
Geological Materials Research (GMR) - 
Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) - 
Geochemical Transactions -
Geochemistry International (Geokhimiya) -
Geological Magazine -
Geology -
Geological Society of America Bulletin -
Geophysical Research Letters - 
European Journal of Mineralogy - 
Handbook of Mineralogy -
Journal of Geochemical Exploration -
Journal of Geology -
Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth) (red) -
Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets) (green) -
Journal of Geoscience Education - 
Journal of Metamorphic Geology (JMP) -
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences (JMPS) - 
Journal of Petrology (JP) - 
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research - 
Lithos -
Meteoritics & Planetary Science (MAPS) - 
Mineralium Deposita - 
MINABS Online (formerly Mineralogical Abstracts) (MA) -
Mineralogical Journal (Japan) - 
Mineralogical Magazine (MM) -
Mineralogy and Petrology - 
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) - 
Nature - 
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth -
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals -
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors -
Precambrian Research - 
Powder Diffraction - 
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering   -
Science -
Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology (SMPM, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen) -
Tectonics -
Virtual Journal - Experimental Earth - 

Magazines

Australian Journal of Mineralogy -
Australian and New Zealand Minerals webzine -
Bob's Rock Shop webzine -
Canadian Rockhound -
Der Aufschluss - (in German) -
Gems & Gemology -
Handbook of Mineralogy -
Lapidary Journal -
Lapis - (in German) -
extraLapis English - English version of extraLapis
La Revista de Minerales -
Le Monde des minéraux -
Le Regne Mineral -
Matrix: A Journal of the History of Minerals - no longer published
Micro Periodica dell'AmI - 
Mineral News -
Mineral Webzine -
Mineralogical Almanac (MA) -
Mineralien Welt - (in German) -
Mineralogical Record (MR) -
Revista Mineralogica Italiana - (in Italian on mineralogy, geology and paleontology)
Rock & Gem -
Rocks & Minerals (RM) - articles on mineralogy, geology, and paleontology since 1926. -
Stein -
UK Journal of Mines and Minerals -
World of Stones - (published as Mineralogical Almanac, but list of contents are available) 

Community of Interest Websites
 

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