This
WikiProject's goal is to define a standard
infobox for using in rock and mineral entries. Eventually, after general agreement, project's focus will change to facilitating the conversion of the existing
rock and
mineral articles to the agreed upon format discussed in
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rocks and minerals.
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Tobias1984 Currently working with metamorphic and igneous rocks and will help out where I can. --
Tobias1984 (
talk) 15:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)reply
User:Chris857 - writing and expanding mineral articles
User:Utopes - Will help primarily with the igneous rocks and crystals.
user:Licks-rocks - grad student earth science, for now mostly working on fixing errors in articles.
User:Epsilon.Prota - Working mainly in mineralogy, with some focus on structural geology
User:Vivian S Zitek - Mindat.org contributor and mineralogy enthusiast. Will primarily focus on mineral species, filling in missing data and carrying out maintenance.
Vivian S Zitek 00:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)reply
There's much discussion about colors in the infobox discussion. I don't see that, in this topic, more than one color adds any significant or obvious information. (E.g., we could do one for metamorphic rocks, one for sedimentary rocks, etc., but I don't know that it's particularly useful to do so.)
Elf
The compounds table doesn't have a title with the name of the compound; instead it's listed as a small item under General. I think it's clearer to have the name at the top, as with animals and several other table categories.
Elf
Comment history from original location
Good choice of colour. It really stands out. Is it possible to condense it a bit? Maybe this should be moved to a Project space.
mydogategodshat 09:45, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
University of Houston, Department of Geosciences, 'adopt-a-mineral' term paper for the course Geology 3370 - Introduction to Mineralogy, prof. Jonathan E. Snow, instructor
July 2014: The entry for Fullers Earth
[1] discusses only the cosmetic product. I don't have the expertise to edit this, but perhaps the British Geological Survey article at
[2] is a good start if somebody has the time and inclination
Note,
critical mineral raw materials: most important mineral groups were known at the end of the XIX Century. Many U and uranyl minerals came later with the nuclear technology.
Monazite,
bastnäsite and
loparite-(Ce) became important REE sources with the widespread use of electronics (monazite is not used because of the production of thorium waste as by-product). Rhodium and titanium is important too. --
Chris.urs-o (
talk) 07:36, 13 August 2016 (UTC)reply