Rockhounders Award

If you have a web site worthy of note to other rockhounders, submit your site for our award. We judge sites on speed loading, useful content, web structure, graphics, and overall appeal to rockhounding enthusiasts. To submit your site, send e-mail including your name, e-mail address, site URL, and a brief description of your site. We'll visit the site and let you know. Submit My Site

If you are viewing this page, you have clicked on the award logo from rockhounders.com or a site that has received the award. This award is presented to sites that promote rockhounding related interests on the Internet through well-crafted and written web sites or pages. This award is not given to every site that applies. The purpose of this award is not to promote our site as the presenter of the award. Instead, we seek to use our site to promote other excellent web sites for rockhounders.

If you have a web site worthy of note to other rockhounders, submit your site for our award. We judge sites on speed loading, useful content, web structure, graphics, and overall appeal to rockhounding enthusiasts. To submit your site, send e-mail including your name, e-mail address, site URL, and a brief description of your site. We'll visit the site and let you know. rockhounder@nnytech.com

Award Criteria

• Site must be original in content (no plagiarism) and pertain to rock and mineral collecting, jewelry, prospecting, spiritualism and crystals, or the rockhounding industry.
• We do not judge solely on the basis of originality in graphics, but rather on the appearance and flow of the site that give it real APPEAL!
• We tend to favor sites that load quickly and get the visitor to the information they seek quickly (3 clicks or less is best).
• If your site makes us want to bookmark it, you stand a better than average chance.
• Sites may be commercial, personal, non-profit, on any server available to the general public, and should be viewable with either Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.