Summary
Minerals are essential to understanding our planet's past and guiding its sustainable future. This project builds on Mindat.org, the world's largest public database of minerals and their global distributions, which receives nearly 10 million visitors per year. With previous support from the National Science Foundation, the OpenMindat project has made mineral data more accurate and accessible for scientists and the public alike. This new phase of work, called OneMineralogy, will expand these efforts into a broader open science ecosystem. OneMineralogy aims to make mineral data and tools availab