public register · mineralogical & materials specimens · est. 2007

Public catalogue of accessioned mineral and material samples

Anonymous submissions; provenance of specimens not asserted beyond what is filed at intake.

Each listing describes a real specimen or fraction that passed intake: names, chemistry, crystal system, locality as reported, and — where completed — summary spectroscopic and physical results under the limits stated in the methodology. The layout looks dull on purpose; the goal is stable citation and corrections on paper, not advertising copy.

Why this touches the same topic as verifiable systems. Publishing a table online is trivial; showing later that nobody secretly re-ordered or rewrote the rows is harder. This registry chains records with published SHA-256 links so a third party can recompute the sequence (see the proof-chain section and verification tool). That addresses the same kind of problem distributed ledgers were invented for — agreement on an ordered log — except the payload is mineralogical metadata and lab notes, not account balances. There is no asset or instrument here; the only parallel is an independently auditable archive.

Run without profit; submissions are reviewed before publication. Nothing here is an offer of goods, securities, or services.