MARYLAND MINERALS offers slide shows in Google's Picasa with over 100 images of a wide variety and range of spectacular mineral specimens that were collected in Maryland. Links are also provided to articles and other sites pertinent to mineral collecting in Maryland including organizations, clubs, and sources for purchasing Maryland minerals.

Slideshow in Google Picasa

Smithsonian Slideshow

Maryland Minerals for Sale

Mineral Bliss Blog

Club Links:
Baltimore Mineral Society
Chesapeake Gem & Mineral Society
Mineralogical Society of the District of Columbia
Delaware Mineralogical Society
Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore
Gem, Lapidary & Mineral Society of Montgomery Co. MD
Maryland Geological Society
Southern Maryland Rock & Mineral Club

Article Links:
The Dinning Rutile Prospect
The Bare Hills Copper Mine
A History of Chromite and Copper in Maryland
The Minerals of Frostburg
New London Mine 2008
The Minerals of Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Maryland
The Dyer Quarry
The Mountain View Lead Mine
Bob Eberle's Baltimore County Digs
Regional Collecting Guide Awaits Update
Fred Parker Maryland Collection Highlights
New Public Maryland Mineral Exhibit
Visit to Maryland Geological Survey
Fred Parker: A Maryland Mineral Perspective
Maryland MInerals at the Harvard Mineralogical Museum
Carrollite and the Cobalt Sulphides of Carroll Cy.,MD
Word from Harvard on Chromite and Magnetite from Bare HIlls
Mineral Mastery at an Early Age
Jonathan Ertman: Maryland's Mr. Garnet
Uncovering a Spectacular Maryland Specimen
Additional Maryland Minerals at Harvard Mineralogical Museum
Marylands Good Old Days Recalled in Tucson
ANSP Maryland Mineral Suite Comes Home
Some Dazzling Maryland Microminerals
Omphacite Another Hunting Hill Rarity
Gold and Anatase in Harford County Maryland
Panning for Anatase in Harford County Part II
Maryland Mineralogy Presented at Rochester Symposium
On Lessons Learned from John S.White
Deweylite Confusion
Collecting at Havre de Grace Quarry
An All But Forgotten Maryland Gypsum Find
Remembering Larry Krause
Discovering Quartz Crystals Near Burkittsville MD
Maryland's Embarrasing State Gemstone
Mr. Tyson's Chrome Pit
Recent Feat for Maryland Prodigy Jessica Simonoff
Jeff Nagy Visits John White
Chalcotrichite at Bare Hills in 2011
A Mineralogical Hike Near Baltimore
The Vug Magazine Spring, 2011 Minerals of Maryland Edition
Maryland's Geology: The Book
Maryland Minerals in the Vug Magazine
Cummingtonite, Amphibole-Anthophyllite, or Bronzite
A Staurolite Find Near Baltimore
A Maryland Native Gold Classic
Maryland Minerals in the Smithsonian Collection
Panning for gold carrollite vesuvianite in Carroll County
The Desautels Symposium and Micromounters Hall of Fame
Largest Native Maryland Faceted Gemstone in Existence
A New Old Baltimore County Locality
An humongous Maryland Collected Ruby Corundum


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