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Statistics

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Minerals
Total IMA valid species6,239
Total synonyms48,181
Total varieties1,944
Total rock names3,300
Total commodity names128
Other5,278
Total entries65,070
Localities
Total localities419,363
Total localities (excluding regions)347,622
Mapped (coordinates added)267,476
Mapped (estimated coordinates)50,888
Total Mapped318,364
Mapped (coordinates added, excluding regions)245,141
Mapped (estimated coordinates, excluding regions)37,757
Total Mapped (excluding regions)282,898
Percentage of localities mapped75.92%
Percentage of localities mapped (excluding estimates)70.52%
Percentage of localities mapped (excluding regions)81.38%
Distinct users who have added/edited localities1,701
Languages
Number of languages used442
Number of translated localities99585
References
Total reference items18,161,816
Total PDFs available506,564
Total PDF pages11,305,203
Locality Coordinates Margin of Error (excluding regions)
Up 3 km254,814 (73.30%)
Up 5 km257,084 (73.96%)
Up 10 km261,282 (75.16%)
Up 20 km265,082 (76.26%)
Up 50 km272,953 (78.52%)
Up 100 km278,394 (80.09%)
Up 500 km282,898 (81.38%)
Mineral occurrence at Localities
Total records1,692,970
Unique localities with minerals recorded268,519
Average number of minerals per locality6.30
Photos
Total number of specimen photos1,235,755
Total number of locality photos131,139
Total number of other photos56,236
Total photos1,423,130
Distinct users uploading photos4,128
Photo of the Day photos7,481
Average image size (Mpix)4.96 Mpix
Total megapixels7,557,946 Mpix
Average image file size (KBytes)2,150.75 KB
Total image file size (GBytes)3,127.56 GB
Tiled photos (deep zoom)670,773
Images unable to tile2
Articles
Total articles2,013
Distinct article authors189
Galleries (User Edited)
Total galleries2,003
Glossary
Total glossary entries25,875
minID
Total minIDs allocated10,542,447
With data recorded10,542,447
Forum
Number of public messages701,713
Number of threads96,839
Distinct authors10,792
Life
Taxonomic pages3,614,187
Taxonomic pages with fossil data283,962
Fossil occurrences1,418,770
Fossil localities86,924
Fossil collections200,254
Users
Total94,293
With contributor rights10,737
Management team42
Misc
Estimated number of pages on mindat.org37,564,487
Database storage (GBytes)540.23 GB
Total disk space used, including caches (TBytes)79.79 TB
 
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