A museum drawer should open without a ticket
Mineral apps tend to become one of two things: an encyclopedia copied from somewhere else, or a storefront for stones someone would like to sell you. Neither is much use to a person crouched on a riverbank holding something glittering and wondering whether it is quartz or feldspar.
Kamnina is written for that person. The catalogue is photo-forward and short-worded, the essentials are explained plainly, and the whole cabinet — every specimen, both languages, the filters and your own collection — lives in the download on your phone.
Kamnina describes minerals. It does not appraise them, and it cannot tell you whether a stone is genuine or what it is worth — that takes a gemmologist with the stone in hand.
A Cabinet of Minerals & Gemstones
Some people collect stamps or coins; this is for anyone who has ever crouched down to pick up an interesting rock. At its core is a photo-forward catalogue you can browse by mineral family, sort by colour, narrow down by hardness on the Mohs scale, and search by name in seconds — built to make sense whether you are a curious beginner or already know your quartz from your feldspar.
Open any specimen and you get the full picture: a framed photo, its hardness laid out on a clear scale, its crystal system and typical lustre, a colour swatch, a rarity marker, and a short plain-language description of what it is, what makes it distinctive and where it tends to form. Then make it yours: mark the stones you own, keep a wishlist of the ones you are hunting, jot private notes on where you found something, and watch a completion ring fill as the cabinet grows.
The ten steps of Mohs are not equal steps
No catalogue here, no photos and nothing to collect — just the ten reference minerals every hardness scale is built on. Friedrich Mohs ranked them in 1812 by which scratches which, and gave them the numbers 1 to 10. Those numbers are an order, not a measurement. Switch to what an instrument actually measures and watch the scale fall apart.
Ten names and ten bars — no specimens, no photos, no lustre, no collection and nothing saved. Kamnina is the rest of the cabinet, and the drawer you fill yourself.
Who publishes it
LumenOak Studios is the app name used by AP Gorica d.o.o., a company registered in Slovenia. The code, the artwork, both language versions, this website and the Google Play account are handled from one address in Nova Gorica.
A photo that shows the wrong mineral, a hardness you would argue with, or a question about privacy — the mail reaches the person who wrote the app. Pišete lahko tudi v slovenščini.
zbirka@apgorica.living