Data Sources

MineralWild uses data and images from the following sources. We are grateful to these organizations and individuals for making their work available.

Image Sources

Rob Lavinsky / iRocks.com

CC-BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Most mineral atlas images in this app were photographed by mineralogist Rob Lavinsky (The Arkenstone), published via Wikimedia Commons.

Smithsonian Open Access

CC0 Public Domain

Mineral specimen images from the Smithsonian Institution's Open Access initiative.

RRUFF Database

CC-BY 4.0

Mineral photos and data from the University of Arizona's RRUFF mineral database.

Openverse

Various CC Licenses

Mineral images collected by Creative Commons' Openverse open media search engine.

Pixabay

Pixabay License

Free commercial-use mineral photos contributed by Pixabay community photographers.

USGS

Public Domain

Mineral and geological images published by the U.S. Geological Survey.

CarlesMillan · Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 3.0

The app login screen hero photo — a cassiterite specimen (File:4447M-cassiterite.jpg) by CarlesMillan, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and scaled for full-bleed display.

Mineral Data Sources

IMA — CNMNC Master List

CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Official mineral names, formulae, IMA status, and type localities of IMA-approved minerals, compiled, with modifications, from The New IMA List of Minerals – A Work in Progress (IMA–CNMNC), licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported.

Wikidata

CC0 Public Domain

Chinese mineral names, crystal systems, Strunz classifications, and external links.

Other Data Sources

MaxMind GeoLite2

GeoLite2 End User License Agreement

Country-level IP geolocation data. This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com.

OpenStreetMap · LocationIQ

ODbL 1.0 · © OpenStreetMap contributors

Place-name search and reverse-geocoding of specimen localities. Geographic data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), served via LocationIQ (Unwired Labs); your device never contacts LocationIQ directly.

Academic Citation

Warr, L.N. (2021) IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols. Mineralogical Magazine, 85(3), 291–320.

Homepage Photos

The mineral-atlas photos listed below appear on the MineralWild homepage. Each entry links to the photo’s Wikimedia Commons file page and gives its license and, where recorded, its author. Each photo was cropped, resized and tone-adjusted for display; on the atlas wall, most photos appear darkened and desaturated.

The homepage link-preview image /assets/og-home.png is adapted from the cassiterite photo (CC BY-SA 3.0); the example share cards in /assets/home/cards/ that show a photo are adapted from the rhodochrosite photo (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each of these adaptations is licensed under the same license as the photo it is based on.