Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

Important Update News

The RRUFF Project is being updated to improve its interface and content. The beta version of the update is accessible to the public at RRUFF.net. New data is only being added to the beta site. Please note that it is in development, and some components are not functional. Existing RRUFF.info links will resolve to the new site after RRUFF.net is officially released.

We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.

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

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

Links to Lists

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)