Agates Australia.  Like Australian agates from Agate Creek, Queensland? Here's a site specializing in them.

Agates Argentina. A great new website with a wonderful gallery of pictures of many beautiful and colorful banded agate specimens. Also pictures of some of the wild, uninhabited lands these agates come from--which remind me visually of areas in Arizona, Utah, and other localities in the North American West.

Amazing Agates. A website run by Julie Charbonneau from Sioux Falls, SD. Fairburns, Lagunas, Lakers, and other agates for sale.

Beautiful Agates. Another nice site specializing in fine agates.

Collector's Edge Minerals. Bryan and Kathryn Lees, Collectors Edge. Bryan mines beautiful rhodochrosite specimens at the world-famous Sweethome Mine in Alma, CO. He is an expert at mineral removal, cleaning, and preparation, and has many other world-wide mineral specimens for sale as well. They also do major mineral shows such as Tucson and Denver. 

Colorado Nuggets. A hobby turned business for Steve & Beverly Rice of Evergreen, Colorado. They offer an impressive array of gold nuggets and specimens, commemorative coins, and Colorado diamonds.

Diamond-Gemstone-Jewelry.com. Diamonds Gemstones Jewelry is your guide to diamonds, gemstones and other fine jewelry products.

Fairburn Agates.com If you love agates, be sure to check out Lou Anagnostopulus's new site. His gallery features some mind-blowing agate pictures, as well as buying and selling information.

Glacier Peak Minerals/Pinnacle 5 Minerals Joe Dorris owns claims at Crystal Peak and offers a fine variety of smoky quartz, amazonite, and many other minerals of the area, as well as world-wide locales. Joe also offers a selection of faceting rough, cut stones, and original art work. He recently added some nice pictures of new crystal pockets found on his Crystal Peak workings, with a lot of informative text of interest to the collector.

High Desert Gems and Minerals. A gemstone mining company that offers sales of rough and cut gems, and collecting tours of their mining sites. Includes a free collecting site at an Oregon sunstone mine, and fee digging at the world-famous Himalaya Mine for tourmalines and other goodies. Other gems they mine include variscite, turquoise, opal, blue chalcedony, lavender chalcedony, purple chalcedony, smoky quartz and amethyst scepters, fire agate, California vesuvianite, and gold. Check it out!

Hop-Scotch Minerals, East Portland, Maine. If you're a tourmaline lover like me, this site by Stephen Welch will blow you away! Lots of pictures and stories about the exciting finds of gem tourmalines and other pegmatite minerals at the old Berry Mine, Androscoggin County, Maine.

Iteco Inc., Columbus, Ohio. Paul Cory's site. Paul handles virtually all of the gemstone output from the world famous Sweethome Mine at Alma, CO., now shut down. He also handles a great deal of the production from the equally famous  benitoite mine in California. If you are interested in seeing the gemstone production from the Sweethome Mine and other world-wide locales, visit with Paul at Tucson, Denver, or one of the other major shows.

Lakota Fairburns  An excellent site run by Native American collectors. Home of the "Wotawe" (Lakota for Fairburn agate)

Lapidary Journal. Lap Journal's web page.

Lundell Rock & Tackle. Eric Lundell's agate site.

Mapmuse This internet mapping program has added a database list of rock shops and gem and mineral clubs. Handy for planning trips or when you're traveling. The list is updateable too, if you know of a place that should be added.

Mineralogical Record. The site for the best minerals publication around.

Chad Parker's Silversmithing site. Chad teaches silversmithing classes in the Ft. Collins, CO area, and has other pertinent information on his site.

Recreational Gold Prospecting Information and stories on gold prospecting in our area, sponsored by Rocky Mt. Tourism LLC in Gunnison, CO.

Rough and Ready Gems. Steve and Marcia Green of Denver specialize in gem briolettes as well as other gems and minerals. Check out their web page here.

Scenic Buena Vista.  If you're planning to visit out area, check this site out, it contains all sorts of information and links.

 Other interesting links...

Navigation, mapping, outdoors:

DeLorme Map Co. Publishers of Street Atlas U.S.A. Has updated accuracy and detail, new route planning capabilities,etc., plus ability to interface directly into GPS systems for real-time navigation. In fact, they sell one especially designed for use in a laptop computer for about $100. If you have a laptop and do much prospecting or other traveling you owe it to yourself to check into this super product. New product! Topo USA. Contains topo maps covering the whole USA on CD rom!

GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages). Information on national parks, forests, wilderness, biking, hiking, paddling, gear, and just about anything else you can think of.

High Country Jeep Tours If you are planning a trip to our area and wish to get in on some sight-seeing tours, mine tours and other recreational activities, check out this site. They will even take you up Mt. Antero if you're up to it!

Topo maps comparison page. Compare all the features and prices of topo maps on CD rom sold by different companys.

...and to our Web Mistress:

Megalith Communications. Web design and development, specializing in e-commerce and database applications and informational sites. She also is an avowed gem lover!