About RRUFF

The RRUFF project provides empirical analyses of minerals, including cell parameters, chemistry, Raman and IR spectroscopy, as well as photos and a large set of references and open access pdfs from supporting mineralogical societies and other journals.

Meet our Team

Bob Downs

Director, UofA

Barbara Lafuente

Project Scientist, SETI

Nate Stone

Founder/System Architect, ODR

Alex Pires

Programmer, UofA

Thomas Bristow

Scientist, NASA ARC

Hexiong Yang

Project Scientist, UofA (retired)

George Rossman

Prof. of Mineralogy , Caltech

IMA

Outreach

How to cite data from RRUFF​

The RRUFF database includes data collected both by the RRUFF Project and by external contributors. We highly recommend that you cite both the original reference source and the RRUFF Project when using this data. Full citation details can be found in the “Reference” section.

To reference the RRUFF Project please use the following citation (Link to publication).

Lafuente, B., Downs, R. T., Yang, H., & Stone, N. (2015). The power of databases: the RRUFF project. Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, Eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter, 1–30.
Lafuente, B., Downs, R. T., Yang, H., & Stone, N. (2015). The power of databases: the RRUFF project. Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, Eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter, 1–30.
Lafuente, Barbara, et al. “The Power of Databases: The RRUFF Project.” Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, Eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter, 30 Nov. 2015, pp. 1–30.
Lafuente, Barbara, et al. “The Power of Databases: The RRUFF Project.” Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, Eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter, Nov. 2015, pp. 1–30.
Lafuente B, Downs RT, Yang H, Stone N. The power of databases: the RRUFF project. Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, eds, Berlin, Germany, W De Gruyter. Published online November 30, 2015:1-30.
Lafuente, B.; Downs, R. T.; Yang, H.; Stone, N. The Power of Databases: The RRUFF Project. Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter 2015, 1–30.
Lafuente, Barbara, R T Downs, H Yang, and N Stone. “The Power of Databases: The RRUFF Project.” Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, Eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter, November 30, 2015, 1–30.
Lafuente, Barbara, R T Downs, H Yang, and N Stone. 2015. “The Power of Databases: The RRUFF Project.” Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, Eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter, November, 1–30.
Lafuente, B., Downs, R.T., Yang, H. and Stone, N. (2015). The power of databases: the RRUFF project. Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, T Armbruster and R M Danisi, eds., Berlin, Germany, W. De Gruyter, pp.1–30.
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Contributing journals and mineral societies
MAC
MAC
MSA
MSA
JAM
JAM
RMO
RMO
SIMP
SIMP

Data Metric

6,148

IMA approved Minerals

4,061

Public RRUFF Sample

9,858

Total RRUFF Samples

Download

All RRUFF data files can be downloaded as zip files.

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Funding

Funding has been provided by our generous founding sponsor Michael Scott, and the many individuals & corporations who have donated samples to the project including the Newmont Corporation, Freeport-McMoRan Inc, and the Feinglos Family Trust.

Additional funding has been provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EAR-0622371 and by NASA/JPL through the Strategic University Research Partnership program and the Mars Science Laboratory mission under Grant No. NNX11AN75A, NNX17AK78A, and 80NSSC19M0241.

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