Writing & style guides

• Charles Darling's Guide to Grammar and Writing: possibly the best and most complete guide
• The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ: helpful for some of the more obscure rules and guidelines
• The Mineralogical Record Editing Conventions: we agree except for: the first three items, the hanging hyphen, the third person, quotation marks; we also adapt spellling and units to the target audience

Dictionaries & glossaries

• Le Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique: Quebec-based bilingual dictionary for technical terms
• Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling: indispensable!
• Mining Glossary: from Mining Life
• Dictionary of Mining, Mineral and Related Terms: from EduMine
• New York State Museum Mineral Glossary: for checking mineral descriptors
• David Darling's Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight: thorough and elegant

Acronyms & abbreviations

• Symbols for rock- and ore-forming minerals: from the Mineralogical Association of Canada (pdf)
• Abbreviations for studies on ore deposits: from Geneva University
• Common, uncommon and specialized abbreviations: also contains a list of similar sites
• The Opaui Guide to Lists of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms on the WWW: a collection of links

Author guides

• Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences: NRC Research Press
• Canadian Mineralogist: Mineralogical Association of Canada
• Geoscience Canada: Geological Association of Canada
• Geology: Geological Society of America
• Economic Geology (SEG Bulletin): Society of Economic Geologists (pdf)
• Journal of the Geological Society: Geological Society of London

Maps

• The CIA's World Fact Book: maps and stats of all types
• General geographic map of Quebec: from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife
• Interactive geographic map of Quebec: more detailed, slower to use
• Quebec's administrative regions: we use this source, although it wasn't really intended for the purpose

Conversion tools

• WWW unit converter: easy-to-use and comprehensive
• x-rates.com: simple currency conversion