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Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-4455-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-4455-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 14
Model description paper
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23 Jul 2025
Model description paper |  | 23 Jul 2025

The OpenMindat v1.0.0 R package: a machine interface to Mindat open data to facilitate data-intensive geoscience discoveries

Xiang Que, Jiyin Zhang, Weilin Chen, Jolyon Ralph, and Xiaogang Ma

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This paper describes an R package as the machine interface to the open data of Mindat.org, one of the world's most widely used databases of mineral species and their distribution. In the past decades, many geoscientists have been using Mindat data, but an open data service has never been fully established. The machine interface described in this paper will be an efficient way to meet the overwhelming data needs.
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