<p>I think <a href="http://www.mindat.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">www.mindat.org</a> has what you are looking for but I don't know how easy it is to perform you own queries of the underlying database.</p>

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2019-11-19T07:23:54.483Z
Copyright doesn't necessarily mean they won't let you work with it. So it may still be worth the OP contacting them.
haresfur
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2019-11-19T10:10:36.283Z
@Leukocyte mindat allow access to their database if contacted and convinced.
Gimelist
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2019-11-19T22:55:17.687Z
Maybe I'll wait for them to publish the API, but if it doesn't include the pictures it won't help me very much. Otherwise, I would need to download the imagens from Google or Wikipedia.
Pedro Aguiar
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2019-11-19T01:53:39.477Z
2019-11-19T01:53:39.477Z
haresfur
<p>I'm diving into data science and I'm looking for a complete database of minerals.  I downloaded the csv file from <a href="http://rruff.info/ima/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://rruff.info/ima/</a> . It contains 5516 lines of data but it does not have images or urls. Does anyone know if there is a database of minerals with images? I'd like to find it to train a neural network.</p>

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2019-11-19T10:07:43.330Z
Do you want a neural network to do image recognition, and based on how the images look in the database try and match an unknown image to a mineral? This will not work. You are more than welcome to ask a new question and I will explain why.
Gimelist
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2019-11-19T22:40:42.820Z
Gimesist, yes it is for image recognition. I'm pretty confident it will work for common minerals with distinctive visual characteristics. I just need a good dataset and pictures from multiple angles.
Pedro Aguiar
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2019-11-19T23:43:17.873Z
@PedroAguiar visual shape and colour are two of the most misleading properties of minerals used for identification. This was one of the reasons why we banned mineral ID questions - because we had a photo and this was mostly useless. Indeed, some minerals are so distinctive (sometimes) that this might work. But I can count 10 minerals I can identify only by looking at them (out of thousands), and only when they are in that specific form.
Gimelist
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2019-11-19T23:45:03.690Z
@PedroAguiar over 10 years experience of mineral ID has taught me that it has hard to trust a visual mineral identification. Unless your neural network also takes into account hardness, lustre, density, chemical composition, geological context, it will probably not work.
Gimelist
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2019-11-19T23:46:52.443Z
@PedroAguiar finally, images posted online are usually of exceptional visually attractive specimens. Images are also commonly slightly edited to bring out some of the most visually pleasing aesthetics of a mineral specimen. This will make it useless for the unedited, unremarkable photos of specimens that will be fed into the NN as unknowns.
Gimelist
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2019-11-23T03:25:18.863Z
agreed color is useless because even slight impurities (and all rocks contain impurities) can lead to drastic changes in color without affecting any of the identifying properties of a mineral. worse because of how many rocks break, the scatter effects of the broken surface undermine the ability to even detect color.
John
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2019-11-23T13:48:07.357Z
@Gimelist, I totally see your point. As an engineering student I had trouble naming the minerals using all my senses so I guess my project's result would be too inaccurate using computer vision! Thank you, I'll move on to another project.
Pedro Aguiar
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Database of mineral with images for a neural network application
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# Database of mineral with images for a neural network application

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-18)

I'm diving into data science and I'm looking for a complete database of minerals. I downloaded the csv file from <http://rruff.info/ima/> . It contains 5516 lines of data but it does not have images or urls. Does anyone know if there is a database of minerals with images? I'd like to find it to train a neural network.

**Tags:** minerals, database

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Do you want a neural network to do image recognition, and based on how the images look in the database try and match an unknown image to a mineral? This will not work. You are more than welcome to ask a new question and I will explain why.  
> **username_0**: Gimesist, yes it is for image recognition. I'm pretty confident it will work for common minerals with distinctive visual characteristics. I just need a good dataset and pictures from multiple angles.  
> **username_1**: @username_0 visual shape and colour are two of the most misleading properties of minerals used for identification. This was one of the reasons why we banned mineral ID questions - because we had a photo and this was mostly useless. Indeed, some minerals are so distinctive (sometimes) that this might work. But I can count 10 minerals I can identify only by looking at them (out of thousands), and only when they are in that specific form.  
> **username_1**: @username_0 over 10 years experience of mineral ID has taught me that it has hard to trust a visual mineral identification. Unless your neural network also takes into account hardness, lustre, density, chemical composition, geological context, it will probably not work.  
> **username_1**: @username_0 finally, images posted online are usually of exceptional visually attractive specimens. Images are also commonly slightly edited to bring out some of the most visually pleasing aesthetics of a mineral specimen. This will make it useless for the unedited, unremarkable photos of specimens that will be fed into the NN as unknowns.  
> **username_2**: agreed color is useless because even slight impurities (and all rocks contain impurities) can lead to drastic changes in color without affecting any of the identifying properties of a mineral. worse because of how many rocks break, the scatter effects of the broken surface undermine the ability to even detect color.  
> **username_0**: @username_1, I totally see your point. As an engineering student I had trouble naming the minerals using all my senses so I guess my project's result would be too inaccurate using computer vision! Thank you, I'll move on to another project.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2019-11-19. Score: 0

I think [www.mindat.org](http://www.mindat.org) has what you are looking for but I don't know how easy it is to perform you own queries of the underlying database.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Copyright doesn't necessarily mean they won't let you work with it. So it may still be worth the OP contacting them.  
> **username_1**: @Leukocyte mindat allow access to their database if contacted and convinced.  
> **username_0**: Maybe I'll wait for them to publish the API, but if it doesn't include the pictures it won't help me very much. Otherwise, I would need to download the imagens from Google or Wikipedia.  

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