Smithsonian Rock Ranger

The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History's Mineral Sciences collection consists of hundreds of thousands of gems and minerals. The museum's digital archives provided geolocation points and other data for the 656 items found in the interactive map to the right.


Click on each point to learn more about what you've found.


The visualization below portions out the collection into a set of common colors, and allows you to explore the material accordingly.


Happy hunting.


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