Mineral Evolution Database
Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.
Mineral locality data provided by
mindat.org
This page is intended to act as a "frontpage" for the MED project, which is currently under development.
General Links
IMA page
Mindat homepage
Mineral Evolution Synopsis
Original Mineral Evolution paper
All age data currently used by MED
GEOROC
NAVDAT
USGS Mineral Resource Data
MED summary page
(takes about a minute to load)
CSV with the counts of mineral/locality combos, organized by element
Cache files directory
MED Links
MED locality page:
Mineral First Occurrences by Element:
Select an Element
H
Li
Be
B
C
N
O
F
Na
Mg
Al
Si
P
S
Cl
K
Ca
Sc
Ti
V
Cr
Mn
Fe
Co
Ni
Cu
Zn
Ga
Ge
As
Se
Br
Rb
Sr
Y
Zr
Nb
Mo
Ru
Rh
Pd
Ag
Cd
In
Sn
Sb
Te
I
Cs
Ba
La
Ce
Nd
Sm
Gd
Dy
Er
Yb
Hf
Ta
W
Re
Os
Ir
Pt
Au
Hg
Tl
Pb
Bi
Th
U
Mineral Last Occurrences by Element:
Select an Element
H
Li
Be
B
C
N
O
F
Na
Mg
Al
Si
P
S
Cl
K
Ca
Sc
Ti
V
Cr
Mn
Fe
Co
Ni
Cu
Zn
Ga
Ge
As
Se
Br
Rb
Sr
Y
Zr
Nb
Mo
Ru
Rh
Pd
Ag
Cd
In
Sn
Sb
Te
I
Cs
Ba
La
Ce
Nd
Sm
Gd
Dy
Er
Yb
Hf
Ta
W
Re
Os
Ir
Pt
Au
Hg
Tl
Pb
Bi
Th
U
First Occurrence for all Minerals
(slow)
Last Occurrence for all Minerals
(slow)
Visualizations
Deep time Redox Analysis of the Geobiology Ontology Network (Dragon)
Co-Evolution of Geo- and Biosphere Network Diagrams
3D Klee Diagram Visualizations
Klee Diagram Data Links
Elements in IMA Minerals:
Select an Element
H
Li
Be
B
C
N
O
F
Na
Mg
Al
Si
P
S
Cl
K
Ca
Sc
Ti
V
Cr
Mn
Fe
Co
Ni
Cu
Zn
Ga
Ge
As
Se
Br
Rb
Sr
Y
Zr
Nb
Mo
Ru
Rh
Pd
Ag
Cd
In
Sn
Sb
Te
I
Cs
Ba
La
Ce
Nd
Sm
Gd
Dy
Er
Yb
Hf
Ta
W
Re
Os
Ir
Pt
Au
Hg
Tl
Pb
Bi
Th
U
Elements at MED localities:
Select an Element
H
Li
Be
B
C
N
O
F
Na
Mg
Al
Si
P
S
Cl
K
Ca
Sc
Ti
V
Cr
Mn
Fe
Co
Ni
Cu
Zn
Ga
Ge
As
Se
Br
Rb
Sr
Y
Zr
Nb
Mo
Ru
Rh
Pd
Ag
Cd
In
Sn
Sb
Te
I
Cs
Ba
La
Ce
Nd
Sm
Gd
Dy
Er
Yb
Hf
Ta
W
Re
Os
Ir
Pt
Au
Hg
Tl
Pb
Bi
Th
U
Links to Lists
MED localities with an Element (aka Locality Registrar):
Select an Element
H
Li
Be
B
C
N
O
F
Na
Mg
Al
Si
P
S
Cl
K
Ca
Sc
Ti
V
Cr
Mn
Fe
Co
Ni
Cu
Zn
Ga
Ge
As
Se
Br
Rb
Sr
Y
Zr
Nb
Mo
Ru
Rh
Pd
Ag
Cd
In
Sn
Sb
Te
I
Cs
Ba
La
Ce
Nd
Sm
Gd
Dy
Er
Yb
Hf
Ta
W
Re
Os
Ir
Pt
Au
Hg
Tl
Pb
Bi
Th
U
Quick display of MED locality counts for IMA minerals
-- like above, but with slightly more info for rare minerals
List of Anthropocene Minerals
List of Meteorite Localities in MED
IMA Minerals without Localities in MED
RRUFF samples that are listed at localities
List of Tectonic settings and the localities they occur at
(very incomplete)
Other Links
Map of dated localities, has several options to filter displayed localities
Debugging Links
List of ages that are affecting multiple top-level localities
List of Localities affected by an Age:
List of Ages gathered from a Reference:
dated_locality_list.php
(slow)
minerals_unique_to_tect_set.php
(very incomplete tectonic setting data makes this effectively useless)
MED_reference_self_check.php
MED_reference_self_check_by_ref_id.php
MED_reference_self_check_table.php
All locality data graciously provided by
mindat.org
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