What is Lithos?

Lithos is a tool too keep track of your mineral collection. It is available for Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000. The current version is 2.3.

The current version of Lithos offers the following features:
 

• integrated Database with all IMA acknowleged mineral species up to december 2000. The information available for each species include name, crystal system, crystal class, hardness, density, color, streak color, cleavage, fracture and crystal grid parameters.
• links from over 1000 trade names, old or obsolete names, and mineral groups to the real acknowleged species.
• quick identification of mineral species after physical properties with powerfull search capabilities.
• over 1000 crystal drawings of approx. 600 species.
• database for your own collection. Keep track of the specimen in your collection and where they come from.
• search facillities for your own collection allow: extracting all localities that you have azurite from, listing all specimen from a locality or region, listing all specimen in a storage space. All of this of course only works after you have catalogued your collection using Lithos, but the effort pays off the first time you're asked for a locality where you can find pyromorphite (or something else for that matter, but I happen to like pyromorphite).
• printing out on numerous label formats.
• Wherever you need to enter a mineral name (even those nasty german ones :-) ) inside Lithos there is a assistent that helps to prevent the casual spelling error that happens too easily with names like Tuperssuatsiait (anyone knowing how this is pronounced?).

Available here is:
 

•  Lithos full bilangual Version.

  To install the version of Lithos please unzip the file lithos2000.zip into a subdirectory (or as windows calls it: folder) and create a shortcut to the program lithos_en.exe. If you want to try out the german language version create a shortcut to lithos_de.exe

• Lithos update. At the moment Lithos 2.3 is the current version. The previously available versions 2.1 and 2.2 are missing special adaptations to more modern computers and windows versions and are no longer supported. Please use this package to upgrade your previous version for free.

If you have suggestions of questions regarding Lithos you can contact  kgw@mineralien-verkauf.de