• General Minerals Links:
  History of the Minerals Industry in Australia
  The Chamber of Minerals & Energy (WA) Fact Sheets
  Commodities in Australia
  Minerals Downunder
  What Minerals Mean to Australians Part 1
  What Minerals Mean to Australians Part 2
  Western Australian Mineral & Petroleum Statistics Digest 06-07
  Common Minerals and Their Uses
  Australian Student Mineral Venture (12-day, fully residential vacation programs that run each year for senior high school students: visit universities offering minerals-related courses, visit mines and find out about the huge variety of careers in the minerals industry)
  Mining Glossary
  
  
• Aluminium/Alumina Links:
  Aluminium Fact Sheet
  About Aluminium
  Rock Files - Aluminium
  Aluminium - History, Applications, Benefits, Production
  Making Aluminium (Mining, Refining, Smelting, Recycling
  It All Starts With Dirt
  Alumina - the Bayer Process
  Minerals Education - Aluminium
  Aluminium Information
  
  
• Gold Links:
  Facts About Gold
  Gold Fever - History of Extraction & Uses
  Minerals Education - Gold
  Rock Files - Gold
  Gold Information - History, Uses, Extraction
  Gold Fact Sheet
  Gold Downunder
  Gold Production
  About Gold
  Gold Facts for Kids
  About Gold
  Gold - Information Cartoons
  Gold Knowledge
  Gold - Society, Science, Money & Production
  Cadia Hill Gold Mine Virtual Tour 1
  Cadia Hill Gold Mine Virtual Tour 2
  
  
• Base Metals (Copper, Nickel & Zinc) Links:
  
  Copper Downunder
  Copper Fact Sheet
  Rock Files - Copper
  Minerals Education - Copper
  Copper Information
  Copper: The Mighty Metal
  Copper: Mine to Market
  Copper as Commodity
  Copper Facts
  60 Centuries of Copper
  
  Rock Files - Nickel
  Nickel Fact Sheet
  Nickel Information
  About Nickel
  Minerals Education - Nickel
  Nickel - Information Cartoons
  Facts About Nickel
  
  Zinc Fact Sheet
  Zinc Information
  Facts About Zinc
  Rock Files - Zinc
  Minerals Education - Zinc
  Zinc - Information Cartoons
  All Things Zinc
  World of Zinc
  
  
• Mineral Related Magazines:
  Process Magazine (CSIRO Minerals)
  Prospect Magazine (Department of Industry and Resources, WA)
  
  
• Popular Science Magazines:
  The Helix Magazine (for kids aged 10+)
  Scientriffic Magazine (for kids aged 7+)
  Odyssey Magazine (US magazine for kids aged 10-16)
  Yes Mag (Canadian magazine for kids aged 9-14)
  Australasian Science
  New Scientist
  Science News
  Discover Magazine
  Popular Science Magazine
  Scientific American
  National Geographic
  Nature
  
  
• Other Useful Links:
  The Lab (ABC's Online Science)
  Science Network Western Australia (includes science news, science events, careers in science)
  BBC News Sci/Tech
  Double Helix Science Club (CSIRO)
  Nova - Science in the News (articles on the science behind the headlines)
  Nature News
  National Geographic Kids
  Questacon (The National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra, Australia)
  Scitech Discovery Centre
  Western Australian Museum
  Australian Museum
  The Science Museum, London
  The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
  
  Periodic Tables:
  Chemical Elements.com
  WebElements
  It's Elemental: The Periodic Table
  

Disclaimer: These links are provided for your convenience only and should not be considered as endorsement of these sites by the Parker Centre. The Centre takes no responsibility for the content of these sites.