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.
Nerd Stuff: This is the fourth interation of Digital Rockhound's Companion (DRC) which I have created. DRC 4.0 is specifically designed for Windows 10 using Sqlite database backend using a modern user interface design approach: WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) using M-V-VM model, view, view model pattern. The user interface is a simple single window design that can easily be used with mouse or touch screen.
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
- Catalog and manage your personal mineral, fossil, and rock collections.
- Print Labels
- Import images
- Capture or import digital micrscope images.
- Document specimen storage locations.
- Easier to use data search feature.
- Search minerals from the Periodic Table.
- Links to Online Mineral databases like Athena, Mindat, and WebMineral.
- 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.
- Mineral collection catalog to organize your collection.
- Print labels and index report for your mineral specimens.
- Manage the location where specimens are stored.
- Create digital street maps of mine locations.
- Display mine locations on various mapservers: Bing, Google, and Open Street Maps.
