Description
A hobbyist site about mineral collecting, with guides, photographs and a guestbook, kept from 1994 to 2005.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Read in four drives; every sector was recovered by at least one. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
13ab0e75294aaf8159816d370810672a6e07869e64e555a3bdb2dbf4f2811045- Last verified
- Sep 29, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Malik Ruiz, The Mineral Collecting Pages (1994–2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35767.