The Digital Rockhound’s Companion 2.0 is a database application that is the compilation of a lifetime’s interest in rock hounding. I designed this application for my personal use and I actively use the application to maintain my mineral collection.
The focus of the application is provide location information for mineral collecting sites and mines and cross-reference against reported mineral occurrences and also against specimens in your mineral collection. Having more specific information about a mineral location adds interest and value to a specimen.
and now blog your mineral collection on Blogger!
Databases include:
- Mining database with over 400,000 locations for North America and the world
- Mineralogy database with over 3800 species.
- Geographic Place Names database for the United states
- Mineral Collection database allowing you to store your personal collection.
- Search minerals from the Periodic Table.
- Links to Online Mineral databases like Athena, Mindat, and WebMineral.
Add/ModifyData:
- Add your own mineral occurrences to mining locations.
- Add online URL links to online mine resources.
- Add your personal mineral collecting locations.
- Add Images to mineral specimen data.
- Find and organize mineral images from the Internet
- Find and download mine Images from Google.com.
Manage your Personal Mineral Collection:
- Mineral collection catalog to organize your collection. Screen
- Print labels and index report for your mineral specimens.
- Manage the location where specimens are stored.
- Catalog your Mineralogical Record and Rock and Mineral Magazine collections.
Digital Mapping:
- Includes digital street maps for all of the United States circa 1995.
- Create digital street maps of mine locations.
- Display mine locations on Google Maps and Terra Server.
Blog using Blogger:
- Integrated Blogger publisher.
- Post your Mineral Collection to Blogger blog
- Post your favorite mine to your Blogger blog
- Post your mine search to your Blogger blog
- Post your mineral search to your Blogger blog
- Post your place name search to your Blogger blog