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Welcome to 3DVOL – Minerals.
This website contains a three-dimensional virtual object library of the most important rock-forming minerals making up planet Earth. You will find information on:
Which are the most common minerals on Earth?
What are their most important physical and chemical properties?
Where in the Earth and under which physical conditions do they form?
How can they be identified in hand specimen?
A mineral is typically defined as an inorganic solid with a particular chemical composition and a characteristic, periodic atomic structure.
This characteristic atomic make-up is often reflected in the macroscopic crystalline structure of a mineral.
The 3D models presented on this website will help you to visualise, study, and memorise these beautiful and often
complex crystal structures as well as other diagnostic features of minerals.
We hope that you enjoy using 3DVOL.
Your 3DVOL team
Acknowledgements
3DVOL is funded by the QUT Teaching and Learning Unit and the School of Earth, Environmental, and Biological Sciences. QUT High Performance Computing provides technical support.
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