Buscamin: um aplicativo de busca mineral

Abstract

Knowledge of mineralogy is now well developed, but often applied wrongly, unfounded. It is known that mineral identification task is not simple and involves many factors that only people with experience can recognize and associate with each rock that is desired features; thus the BuscaMin application is a broadcasting project of the mineralogy of knowledge through a tool to be used on mobile devices. With this application the user is able to identify a wide range of minerals, from the known to the less common, as they are registered more than 70 minerals in this program. This tool is organized into six folders containing minerals that have similar chemical compositions grouped. The options offer lists of minerals, which are selected to reveal the color, stroke color, hardness, density, brightness, cleavage fracture and use of each mineral, as well as a photo of the respective rock formation. Searches can be made by anyone, simply is connected to the internet with a device that contains Android or IOS system.