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Our Scientific Work


Mindat.org has been used as a scientific reference resource since the beginning, but our data has also been essential for brand new scientific research, especially in the new fields of mineral evolution and mineral ecology.

Jolyon Ralph has contributed to multiple scientific papers on these subjects, including:

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2024Que, Xiang, Huang, Jingyi, Ralph, Jolyon, Zhang, Jiyin, Prabhu, Anirudh, Morrison, Shaunna, Hazen, Robert, Ma, Xiaogang (2024) Using adjacency matrix to explore remarkable associations in big and small mineral data. Geoscience Frontiers, 15 (5) 101823 doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101823 Science Direct
2024Zhang, Jiyin, Que, Xiang, Madhikarmi, Bhuwan, Hazen, Robert M., Ralph, Jolyon, Prabhu, Anirudh, Morrison, Shaunna M., Ma, Xiaogang (2024) Using a 3D heat map to explore the diverse correlations among elements and mineral species. Applied Computing and Geosciences, 21. 100154 doi:10.1016/j.acags.2024.100154Science Direct
2023Prabhu, Anirudh, Morrison, Shaunna M., Fox, Peter, Ma, Xiaogang, Wong, Michael L., Williams, Jason R., McGuinness, Kenneth N., Krivovichev, Sergey V., Lehnert, Kerstin, Ralph, Jolyon, et al. (2023) What is mineral informatics? American Mineralogist, 108 (7). 1242-1257 doi:10.2138/am-2022-8613
2022Liu, Chao, Ralph, Jolyon, Morrison, Shaunna M., Meyer, Michael B., Hazen, Robert M., Hummer, Daniel R., Golden, Joshua J., Hystad, Grethe, Downs, Robert T., Eleish, Ahmed (2022) Evidence for the oxidation of Earth’s crust from the evolution of manganese minerals. Nature Communications, 13 (1) doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28589-xNature Communications
2020Morrison, Shaunna M., Buongiorno, Joy, Downs, Robert T., Eleish, Ahmed, Fox, Peter, Giovannelli, Donato, Golden, Joshua J., Hummer, Daniel R., Hystad, Grethe, Kellogg, Louise H., Kreylos, Oliver, Krivovichev, Sergey V., Liu, Chao, Merdith, Andrew, Prabhu, Anirudh, Ralph, Jolyon, Runyon, Simone E., Zahirovic, Sabin, Hazen, Robert M. (2020) Exploring Carbon Mineral Systems: Recent Advances in C Mineral Evolution, Mineral Ecology, and Network Analysis. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8. doi:10.3389/feart.2020.00208
2018Liu, Chao, Eleish, Ahmed, Hystad, Grethe, Golden, Joshua J., Downs, Robert T., Morrison, Shaunna M., Hummer, Daniel R., Ralph, Jolyon P., Fox, Peter, Hazen, Robert M. (2018) Analysis and visualization of vanadium mineral diversity and distribution. American Mineralogist, 103 (7) 1080-1086 doi:10.2138/am-2018-6274
2017Hazen, Robert M., Hystad, Grethe, Golden, Joshua J., Hummer, Daniel R., Liu, Chao, Downs, Robert T., Morrison, Shaunna M., Ralph, Jolyon, Grew, Edward S. (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology. American Mineralogist, 102 (1) 108-116 doi:10.2138/am-2017-5798minsocam.org
2017Liu, Chao, Hystad, Grethe, Golden, Joshua J., Hummer, Daniel R., Downs, Robert T., Morrison, Shaunna M., Ralph, Jolyon P., Hazen, Robert M. (2017) Chromium mineral ecology. American Mineralogist, 102 (3) 612-619 doi:10.2138/am-2017-5900arizona.edu
2017Morrison, Shaunna M., Liu, Chao, Eleish, Ahmed, Prabhu, Anirudh, Li, Congrui, Ralph, Jolyon, Downs, Robert T., Golden, Joshua J., Fox, Peter, Hummer, Daniel R., Meyer, Michael B., Hazen, Robert M. (2017) Network analysis of mineralogical systems. American Mineralogist, 102 (8) 1588-1596 doi:10.2138/am-2017-6104ccbyncndAmerican Mineralogist
2016Golden, J.J., Pires, A.J., Hazen, R.M., Downs, R.T., Ralph, J.P. and Meyer, M.B. 2016, January. Building the Mineral Evolution Database: Implications for future Big Data Analysis Conference paper GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.researchgate.net
2016Morrison, S.M., Downs, R.T., Golden, J.J., Pires, A.J., Fox, P., Ma, X., Zednik, S., Eleish, A., Kolankowski, S., Liu, C., Hummer, D.R., Meyer, M.B., Ralph, J.P, Hystad, G. and Hazen, R.M. 2016, January. Analysis and Sociograms of Mineral Connections, Distributions, and Segmentation Conference paper GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.researchgate.net
2016Morrison, S.M., Downs, R.T., Golden, J.J., Pires, A., Fox, P.A., Ma, X., Zednik, S., Eleish, A., Prabhu, A., Hummer, D.R., Ralph, J.P. and Liu, C., 2016, February. Exploiting mineral data: applications to the diversity, distribution, and social networks of copper minerals. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
2016Liu, C., Hazen, R.M., Hystad, G., Golden, J.J., Hummer, D.R., Downs, R.T., Morrison, S.M. and Ralph, J.P. 2016, January. Chromium and Vanadium Mineral Ecology. Conference paper GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.researchgate.net
2012Ralph, Jolyon (2012) Did life change Earth's geology?. Astronomy, 40 (11) 44-49
2011Hazen, R. M., Bekker, A., Bish, D. L., Bleeker, W., Downs, R. T., Farquhar, J., Ferry, J. M., Grew, E. S., Knoll, A. H., Papineau, D., Ralph, J. P., Sverjensky, D. A., Valley, J. W. (2011) Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research. American Mineralogist, 96 (7) 953-963 doi:10.2138/am.2011.3725 harvard.edu


 
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To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844. doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
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