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r/Minerals

103.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.3K upvotes, which works out to 13 per 1,000 members.

13peak upvotes per 1,000 members
103.5Kmembers
1.3Kbest post
105most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

50% 24% 22%
Gallery 50% Video 24% Image 22% Text 3% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Picture/Video 138 ID Request 122 Discussion 29 ID Request - Solved 11

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Vivianite

↑ 1.3K 💬 26 video 2026

Found this while prospecting in the alps , it’s unusual shape and the pyramidal growth on top has made a bit confusing to identify

↑ 1.3K 💬 105 video 2026

Rubellite Tourmaline from California

↑ 1.2K 💬 26 video 2026

"Alien" Amethyst

↑ 1.1K 💬 32 video 2026

Brookite on smoky quartz. Magnet Cove, Arkansas

↑ 670 💬 28 video 2026

Okorusu Fluorote

↑ 658 💬 20 video 2026

Malachite on unrefined copper

↑ 653 💬 24 image 2026

Museum Grade Topaz

↑ 574 💬 7 video 2026

Indicolite Tourmaline Bunch

↑ 549 💬 11 video 2026

What’s this black mineral purchased in Namibia?

↑ 505 💬 51 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Minerals, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/Minerals have?
r/Minerals has about 103.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.3K upvotes, which is 13 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Minerals?
"Vivianite" reached 1.3K upvotes and 26 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Minerals.
What subreddits are similar to r/Minerals?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/Minerals?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are gallery posts and 24% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Minerals?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (465 avg upvotes), Sunday at 16:00 UTC (381 avg upvotes), Sunday at 02:00 UTC (231 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Minerals?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Minerals has 322 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Minerals, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.