VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY AND PHOTO ATLAS OF MINERALS

 

THEO KLOPROGGE

     

© Tom Loomis and Piet Stemvers

A NEW BEGINNING!

This website was started while I was working as an academic at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and QUT offered free hosting on one of their servers during tis period. However, when my disability increased in early 2008 and I was forced to retire it became impossible for me to maintain and update the site. Recently the website has been moved to a private server fully under my control again and from now on regular updates will be made.

There is however a but. Having the site privately hosted means that I am now forced to pay for the hosting of the website from my disability pension and that might become too much of a burden. If you wish to support/sponsor to keep this website not only on the internet but keep it growing please contact me via my email at the bottom of this page.

Thanks for all your support!

Theo

This database provides information about mineralogy and is  dedicated to providing  access to physical and chemical data, photos, electron microscopy images, images of thin sections and analytical data such as Mineral Vibrational Spectra in the near-, far- and mid- infrared regions of the spectrum, infrared emission spectra and Raman spectra of minerals.

Mineral Data: thousands of pages with information, photos and spectra

This is the ever growing list of physical, chemical (more than 3650 minerals) and optical data (1000 minerals), photos (more than 60,000 colour photos of around 2200 minerals, thin sections, more than 100 scanning electron microscope images of more than 50 minerals and transmission electron microscope images) and vibrational spectra of the minerals available in this database.  Data are on the web only available as images of the spectra.

Alphabetical list of minerals

including IMA status

 

Special topic galleries

(new pages added 1-7-07)

Mineral synonyms

 

Minerals of Australia and New Zealand

 

 

Raman spectra of minerals

 

Glossary of terms

All colour photos are reproduced with permission of their owners and are copy right protected © 2003. Nothing from this website can be reproduced without written permission of the owners.

 

THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION TO MINERALOGY AND VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY

 

 

Links (under construction)

 

Developed in collaboration with

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County/Photo-Atlas of Minerals

(Dr. Anthony Kampf, Lou Perloff, Milton Speckels )

 

National Museum of Natural History, Paris (France)

 

Queensland Museum, Brisbane (Queensland, Australia)

The Queensland Resources Council

 

Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas, United States)

 

Thomas Witzke (Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre, Aachen, Germany)

 

Queensland Mineralogical Society

 

 

Piet Stemvers (Stichting Gea, The Netherlands)

 

Rik Dillen and Axel Emmermann (Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen, Belgium)

 

 

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

Tom Loomis (South Dakota, USA)

 

 

Rob Lavinsky (The Arkenstone, USA)

 

Steve Rust (United Kingdom)

 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co, Trinityminerals.com

 

Dan Weinrich

Vic Cloete

Sue and Phil Ericksson

 

 

 

For any information, comments, errors, or inactive links please contact: Theo Kloprogge

theo@mineralatlas.com

 

Last updated 05/07/2012