Is there any use for the minerals I find?

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I'm saving them, and I have a lot of them, but never found any use for them.
Should I sell most of them and keep 2-3 from each kind?
Thanks!

[Kalvix]

Some are used in recipes, you can give 1 of each to the museum, but some you only need 1 of so can sell, you'll need to check the wiki to find out which though as I can't remember all 53 (I think) of them off the top of my head, and honestly it would be kind of weird if somebody did

[herwryness]

They make good gifts for some of the citizens iirc.

[Decent.]

But in the long run, there's no need for me to collect for example 20 pieces of some kind of a mineral, it's recommended to keep a few (2-4) in storage, and sell the rest? I won't regret selling those?

[-Na Shagul-]

The most important mineral to keep around is quartz, the rest make good gifts and can otherwise be safely sold

[CalhounMKZ]

The Gemstone minerals are great for gifts, diamonds rubys topazes and such. Quartz, earth crystals, frozen tears, and fire quartz are useful in crafting. You will likely want a lot of quartz in the long run. Any others that are more like silicates or calcites have no use outside of the museum and make for poor gifts in general.

[Decent.]

Thank you all!

[titanopteryx]

One universal love gift is diamonds. There's a machine you can craft called a crystalarium. You can put a mineral in it and periodically it'll make a copy of it. So if you were to put a diamond in it, it would continuously make diamonds. Though making diamonds takes a while. It takes a lot of resources but you can actually make a bunch of those and have them all making diamonds and combine that with the mining profession that increases the value of gems and minerals. I did that, or am working on doing that, in my hilltop farm character. Alternatively you can put any gem or mineral in them. Quartz is an example. At one point I was planning on having one crystalarium for each mineral but I changed my mind when I realized how many I'd need to make. But if you're doing a second or so on playthrough with an all mining challenge, then you might want to have a farm of those.