Catalog of type specimen, Musee de mineralogie, Ecole des mines de Paris

The catalog was established by Prof. Guillemin (died April 6, 1994). It was first published in 1983, 200 years after the creation of the Ecole des Mines. The catalog can be accessed :

by authors (attention : more than 100,000 bytes) or by first letter of author's name
by minerals
by date of first publication
by atoms in chemical formula
Holotypes, Cotypes, Metatypes, joint types, Author samples, Dedicated samples

The data included in this on-line database comes essentially from the following books :

Catalogue des Espèces types et d'auteur du musée de minéralogie de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (1983)
En visitant les grandes collections minéralogiques mondiales - Claude Guillemin, Jean Mantienne (1989)
Index alphabétique de nomenclature minéralogique

These three books were edited by BRGM This data base was computerized by RM

See also :

All mineral of the world (project Euromin)
The history of the French Corps of Mining Engineers and The history of the Ecole des Mines de Paris