Description
A webring that linked 170 hobbyist sites about mineral collecting, and the member sites that could still be recovered.
Provenance
Deposited by Marridge Heritage Trust. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
26e0a25c9a4d3f3879ca83f6e4696e8bbf5629dca367bf7fcf5d3cf38e04f279- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WEB1-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the web.
Cite as: Omar Halloran, The Mineral Collecting Ring (2001–2007). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08050.