Robert “Rob” Lavinsky, PhD (view his biography on minrec.org) donated his complete picture database on mindat.org, as well as all his pictures from his own homepage irocks.com (collected in several galleries respectively alphabetically sorted by mineral name).

Technical part

The pictures on mindat have been uploaded to Commons in two batches

• 34,917 pictures from mindat.org
• 20,582 pictures from irocks.com

by the robot RKBot, they have been categorized and mineral names and localities have been translated to German. The pictures are in Category:Images by Rob Lavinsky

To do

Your help is needed to

• translate the remaining descriptions

More pictures needed?

The Arkenstone (www.iRocks.com) is happy to work with people who need mineral images for a variety of projects. Please contact The Arkenstone directly at info@iRocks.com with photo requests as this page is not monitored on a regular basis.

Image list

The image list is obsolete now, since the comparison with the irocks.com images will be done by the bot.

More recent images can be found on Dr. Rob Lavinsky's website, iRocks.com.

Duplicate images and bad names

These exist, and are being collected at

• Commons:Robert Lavinsky/Files to be deleted
• Commons:Robert Lavinsky/Files to be renamed

See this discussion. Thanks, PDTillman (talk) 20:47, 11 June 2010 (UTC)