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Hi. The streak of the mineral I discussed is most likely white, and any cleavage may be thin and roughly rhombus-shaped, and I have replied to the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2011 post. Any idea what it might be? I am unable to do further testing at this time. Thanks. ~ A H 1( T C U) 02:35, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
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I'm trying to, posibly, put togethor a template to organize that confused mess that volcano info is. I've made a draft in my sandbox. Feel free to add anything or edit it as appropriate (read: fix it up and we can use it as a scaffold). Res Mar 05:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. In Timeline of the development of tectonophysics#CITEREFWilson1966 ("Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?") http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/huerta/g501/pdf/Wilson1966.pdf is a dead link. Do you know some copy of the article? Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 21:10, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Chris for the hint about wikipedians in CH. If I'm at home, I'll attend the meeting of the suisse romand in Nyon on Aug 20th. Maxwyss ( talk) 11:16, 30 March 2011 (UTC)MaxWyss
The comment was made by a different user which made it hard to tell. Sorry! Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ( Shout!) 20:22, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Chris, Sir/Mrs Vsmith made an accusation of spam and deleted a serious scientific information under this ad hoc accusation. I understand this is not spam, this is an attempt to share a knowledge shared within a serious network, Nature Connotea. Why this behaviour, blocking the page under a such agressive accusation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.162.246.170 ( talk) 14:03, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Chris.urs-o!
I put an answer on Vsmith's talk page. I am a solid state chemist and not a geologist and I am much more used to thinking in terms of space groups as descriptors of solid phases than the H-M point group/crystal classes. Imho point groups should be used to describe things like local symmetries like atoms or so, not for materials that have lots of translation symmetry. Of course that presupposes that the structure be known... Otherwise we can not always give the right space group. In that case giving the crystal class or the unit cell is all we can do. For known structures however I think the space group should be given. Jcwf ( talk) 00:18, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
I've modified the IUPAC listings on List of minerals P-R (complete) (P and Q so far) to remove the numbering break as we don't need each IUPAC name preceded by a 1 - by using a <br/> and removing the newline for each. Put 'em in parens too. Ok? Vsmith ( talk) 14:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
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I'm going to try and restart this old project, and your comments would be highly appreciated. Thanks =), Res Mar 02:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Chris.urs-o, why do you keep taking Siberian traps off the tasks list? RockMagnetist ( talk) 15:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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In this you changed an image caption from Tabebuia donnell-smithii to Roseodendron donnell-smithii. That image is identified (at this site) as Tabebuia donnell-smithii by the photographers, Forrest and Kim Starr, who work as biologists in Hawaii. I am inclined to accept their designation as authoritative. Could you explain your basis for changing the species name? -- Donald Albury 00:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I thank you your help in tropical flora. I hope your help again in the future. Best regards Curritocurrito ( talk) 09:29, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
I just removed the Commons Explorer Ridge category on two photos ( File:Expl2366 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg and File:Tubeworm community) that you added in January. Be aware that the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Explorer Ridge are not the same thing. They are separated by the Nootka Fault between the Explorer and Juan de Fuca plates. Volcano guy 15:35, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chris, I recently started Silicate perovskite as a companion to Ferropericlase, but I'm not sure whether it has a place in the List of Minerals - what do you think? Mikenorton ( talk) 15:48, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chris. Just saw your edits in the plate tectonics section of the List of important publications in geology. I had no idea of the book by Pepper, so I thought I'd read up. But now I'm not sure it is appropriate for the list. Sure enough, it does predate the Wegener, but I also found this by Bullard (who should know): http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ea.03.050175.000245 (I hope you can get that).
Bullard points out that 1. this was a children's book, 2. it was recycling Snyder's ideas, and wasn't original, and 3. wasn't actually trying to advance a theory of continental drift, just noting the closeness of the fit of the coastlines. I'm not sure this should be on the list, but wanted to get your thoughts before just taking it out again. The Snyder is apparently a crackpot book (according to Bullard) as well, not trying to actually advance a cogent plate tectonic theory, so I don't think we should sub that in either. My money remains on the Wegener. This would be interesting info to put into Timeline of the development of tectonophysics, though.
Thanks! I'd like to hear your thoughts! DanHobley ( talk) 18:08, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for your kind comment on the Levee talk page EdwardLane ( talk) 18:15, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for taking long to reply. In regards to your question, the quote from the book is as follows:
(...) choosing the minerals to be included in a field guide poses certain problems. Almost all experts will agree on the first 150 or so species, but beyond that point the choice becomes extermely personal. Some species are very beautiful but also very rare. Others are more widespread, but are not often collected because they rarely make attractive speciments. (...)
The book describes 232 mineral species. I'm not keen on transcribing the full list out, but I can say that most of them are the common rock-forming minerals, or the ones that are less common but popular among collectors. For examples, about 20 minerals of the 232 are inosilicates, of which a bit over half are common (think augite, hornblende, etc.), and the remainder are pretty or have interesting chemistry. Then there are cases like crocoite, which is only there because of its bright red colour.
Hope this helps. Maxim (talk) 19:56, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Was this supposed to be a sandbox edit as the edit summary said? I've undone it for now. Vsmith ( talk) 21:35, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Chris,
Many thanks for your help with my request at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rocks_and_minerals#Category:Meteorite_minerals.
Two questions:
Thanks again.
-Arb. ( talk) 11:19, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for you help, and wow that was fast :) -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 12:32, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Just a note, specific gravity is unitless as a ratio of densities. Cheers, Vsmith ( talk) 16:42, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for that decimal point on combeite, SG of 2844 - must've been neutron star stuff :) Vsmith ( talk) 02:34, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
In case you don't have them:
-cheers :) -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 20:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you helped me with some geology articles. They led to a Chinese geology company, and another topic company associated with editors of those articles. I added a Controversy section edit with reliable sources, but my edit was reverted [2]. It was replaced with WP:OR stuff without reliable sources. Could you check my sources and restore my edit if I did not make a mistake? I am asking another editor who also helped me before. Thanks. KatieBoundary ( talk) 15:25, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for working on the Ashio mine and Sado mine articles. I am not an expert on mines and appreciate the expertise. I responded on the talk pages of both in case you want to continue the discussion. Michitaro ( talk) 05:54, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm interested in improving the style guide for wiki project mining. I left a suggestion on the talk page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mining#An_addition_to_the_style_guide. I was wondering what you thought about it. thanks. John Mortimore Message Me 23:13, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I see you have been playing with the articles named "list of minerals" :-). I have made the {{ List of minerals}} which contains the introduction to the articles. I have put it on the first few articles, and I intend to put it on the rest, if you (and others) like the idea. Christian75 ( talk) 23:31, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, This paper could insterrest you, I think.
Blair Schoene, Kyle M. Samperton, Michael P. Eddy, Gerta Keller, Thierry Adatte, Samuel A. Bowring, Syed F. R. Khadri & Brian Gertsch (2014) U-Pb geochronology of the Deccan Traps and relation to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction ; Revue Science ; en ligne le 11 Décembre 2014 (
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Hello, I would be interested to discover if you have any comments about my questions about this timeline at Talk:Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals. Thanks. GeoWriter ( talk) 14:04, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I've answered you at my talk page. Eudialytos ( talk) 17:32, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Chris. I have one more question. I sometimes put informations like "this mineral is chemically similar to other minerals, like..."; these informations come from Mindat CHEMICAL SEARCH, thus I provide the link to the search results; however, the Wiki-help page on "External links" says that such links should "generally be avoided". May I leave them as they are? Thanks. Eudialytos ( talk) 22:30, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
I have started a rather rogue stub kalgoorlieite which is legit
BUT although I have been a geological field assistant in the deep dark past, I cannot for the likes of me work out how to transpose the info available into a meaningful table on the right hand side... is that something you are good at ? JarrahTree 13:34, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for what you have done already! In the wp article on arsenic it seems to deny the existence of As Te minerals, is there any reason for a sort of claim for that - when the material on kalgoorlieite has three others that are specifically identified as such ? JarrahTree 13:38, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
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fougèrite seems to be exclusively a French language spelling. The mineral's name seems to be invariably spelled "fougerite" in all English literature.
While articles about persons and place names should try to use the spelling of the name in the original language (when feasible, and when it has not been Anglicized by tradition), thre is no reason to extend that regard to things that were named after them. The use of original diacritics would be extremely impractical, given that there are literally hundreds of variants of the Latin alphabet with idiosyncratic markings: Polish, Czech, Vietnamese, Turkish, Hungarian, Guarany, ... --
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Hi, Chris! You've been really helpful with your edits to widgiemoolthalite. I was thinking of nominating the article to GA, since there are perilously few Good Articles about minerals ( vanadinite, on which I based the widgiemoolthalite article, is presently the only other one, I think). Since you seem to know mineralogy better than I do, do you see any glaring errors or holes in coverage you think would need to be fixed in order to reach GA? Thanks in advance for your advice and help! Best, BobAmnertiopsis ∴ ChatMe! 19:49, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hallo, I notice that you've added the category Category:Geological type localities which isn't supported by anything in the text. I removed the unsourced wording "The gcwihaba caves are formed in the state of the carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate known as the dolomite, ideally CaMg(CO3)2. The caves are formed when the wetter conditions together with acidulous water flowing from underground dissolved the rocks." in the course of a major cleanup, but even that doesn't suggest a type locality. Could you add something sourced to the article to justify the category, and to improve the article? Thanks. Pam D 08:37, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
I was wondering if you're interested in or knowledgeable about crystal structures, and even if not, if you can direct me to any active users who are? I'm asking you because you seem to be involved with stuff regarding minerals. OrganoMetallurgy ( talk) 18:47, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Greetings, Chris.urs-o! It's RockMagnetist under a slightly different name. I'm wondering if you'd be o.k. with my moving Organic compounds (minerals) to Classification of organic minerals. This would better describe its current contents and conform with titles like Classification of non-silicate minerals. I would like to create a page titled either Organic compound (mineral) or Organic mineral that is organized as an article rather than a list; you can see the current draft at User:RockMagnetist (DCO visiting scholar)/Drafts/Organic mineral. I want to create it as a reasonably complete article so I can promote it with DYK. RockMagnetist (DCO visiting scholar) ( talk) 23:12, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. You are mixing English and Portuguese here [5], and at a few other mineral lists. Christian75 ( talk) 13:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. The streak of the mineral I discussed is most likely white, and any cleavage may be thin and roughly rhombus-shaped, and I have replied to the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2011 post. Any idea what it might be? I am unable to do further testing at this time. Thanks. ~ A H 1( T C U) 02:35, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Because I have noticed you commenting at the current RfC regarding Pending Changes, I wanted to invite you to the IRC channel for pending changes. If you are not customarily logged into the IRC, use this link. This under used resource can allow real time discussion at this particularly timely venture of the trial known as Pending Changes. Even if nothing can come from debating points there, at least this invitation is delivered with the best of intentions and good faith expectations. Kind regards. My76 Strat 08:31, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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I'm trying to, posibly, put togethor a template to organize that confused mess that volcano info is. I've made a draft in my sandbox. Feel free to add anything or edit it as appropriate (read: fix it up and we can use it as a scaffold). Res Mar 05:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello. In Timeline of the development of tectonophysics#CITEREFWilson1966 ("Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?") http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/huerta/g501/pdf/Wilson1966.pdf is a dead link. Do you know some copy of the article? Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 21:10, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Chris for the hint about wikipedians in CH. If I'm at home, I'll attend the meeting of the suisse romand in Nyon on Aug 20th. Maxwyss ( talk) 11:16, 30 March 2011 (UTC)MaxWyss
The comment was made by a different user which made it hard to tell. Sorry! Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ( Shout!) 20:22, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Chris, Sir/Mrs Vsmith made an accusation of spam and deleted a serious scientific information under this ad hoc accusation. I understand this is not spam, this is an attempt to share a knowledge shared within a serious network, Nature Connotea. Why this behaviour, blocking the page under a such agressive accusation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.162.246.170 ( talk) 14:03, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Chris.urs-o!
I put an answer on Vsmith's talk page. I am a solid state chemist and not a geologist and I am much more used to thinking in terms of space groups as descriptors of solid phases than the H-M point group/crystal classes. Imho point groups should be used to describe things like local symmetries like atoms or so, not for materials that have lots of translation symmetry. Of course that presupposes that the structure be known... Otherwise we can not always give the right space group. In that case giving the crystal class or the unit cell is all we can do. For known structures however I think the space group should be given. Jcwf ( talk) 00:18, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
I've modified the IUPAC listings on List of minerals P-R (complete) (P and Q so far) to remove the numbering break as we don't need each IUPAC name preceded by a 1 - by using a <br/> and removing the newline for each. Put 'em in parens too. Ok? Vsmith ( talk) 14:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Chris! Thanks for your interest in becoming in joining the ambassador program. The next step to officially apply to become an Online Ambassador, and then you can sign on to support that geology class. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 15:12, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm going to try and restart this old project, and your comments would be highly appreciated. Thanks =), Res Mar 02:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Chris.urs-o, why do you keep taking Siberian traps off the tasks list? RockMagnetist ( talk) 15:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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In this you changed an image caption from Tabebuia donnell-smithii to Roseodendron donnell-smithii. That image is identified (at this site) as Tabebuia donnell-smithii by the photographers, Forrest and Kim Starr, who work as biologists in Hawaii. I am inclined to accept their designation as authoritative. Could you explain your basis for changing the species name? -- Donald Albury 00:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I thank you your help in tropical flora. I hope your help again in the future. Best regards Curritocurrito ( talk) 09:29, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
I just removed the Commons Explorer Ridge category on two photos ( File:Expl2366 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg and File:Tubeworm community) that you added in January. Be aware that the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Explorer Ridge are not the same thing. They are separated by the Nootka Fault between the Explorer and Juan de Fuca plates. Volcano guy 15:35, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chris, I recently started Silicate perovskite as a companion to Ferropericlase, but I'm not sure whether it has a place in the List of Minerals - what do you think? Mikenorton ( talk) 15:48, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chris. Just saw your edits in the plate tectonics section of the List of important publications in geology. I had no idea of the book by Pepper, so I thought I'd read up. But now I'm not sure it is appropriate for the list. Sure enough, it does predate the Wegener, but I also found this by Bullard (who should know): http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ea.03.050175.000245 (I hope you can get that).
Bullard points out that 1. this was a children's book, 2. it was recycling Snyder's ideas, and wasn't original, and 3. wasn't actually trying to advance a theory of continental drift, just noting the closeness of the fit of the coastlines. I'm not sure this should be on the list, but wanted to get your thoughts before just taking it out again. The Snyder is apparently a crackpot book (according to Bullard) as well, not trying to actually advance a cogent plate tectonic theory, so I don't think we should sub that in either. My money remains on the Wegener. This would be interesting info to put into Timeline of the development of tectonophysics, though.
Thanks! I'd like to hear your thoughts! DanHobley ( talk) 18:08, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for your kind comment on the Levee talk page EdwardLane ( talk) 18:15, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for taking long to reply. In regards to your question, the quote from the book is as follows:
(...) choosing the minerals to be included in a field guide poses certain problems. Almost all experts will agree on the first 150 or so species, but beyond that point the choice becomes extermely personal. Some species are very beautiful but also very rare. Others are more widespread, but are not often collected because they rarely make attractive speciments. (...)
The book describes 232 mineral species. I'm not keen on transcribing the full list out, but I can say that most of them are the common rock-forming minerals, or the ones that are less common but popular among collectors. For examples, about 20 minerals of the 232 are inosilicates, of which a bit over half are common (think augite, hornblende, etc.), and the remainder are pretty or have interesting chemistry. Then there are cases like crocoite, which is only there because of its bright red colour.
Hope this helps. Maxim (talk) 19:56, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
Was this supposed to be a sandbox edit as the edit summary said? I've undone it for now. Vsmith ( talk) 21:35, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Chris,
Many thanks for your help with my request at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rocks_and_minerals#Category:Meteorite_minerals.
Two questions:
Thanks again.
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Thank you for you help, and wow that was fast :) -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 12:32, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Just a note, specific gravity is unitless as a ratio of densities. Cheers, Vsmith ( talk) 16:42, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for that decimal point on combeite, SG of 2844 - must've been neutron star stuff :) Vsmith ( talk) 02:34, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
In case you don't have them:
-cheers :) -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 20:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you helped me with some geology articles. They led to a Chinese geology company, and another topic company associated with editors of those articles. I added a Controversy section edit with reliable sources, but my edit was reverted [2]. It was replaced with WP:OR stuff without reliable sources. Could you check my sources and restore my edit if I did not make a mistake? I am asking another editor who also helped me before. Thanks. KatieBoundary ( talk) 15:25, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for working on the Ashio mine and Sado mine articles. I am not an expert on mines and appreciate the expertise. I responded on the talk pages of both in case you want to continue the discussion. Michitaro ( talk) 05:54, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm interested in improving the style guide for wiki project mining. I left a suggestion on the talk page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mining#An_addition_to_the_style_guide. I was wondering what you thought about it. thanks. John Mortimore Message Me 23:13, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I see you have been playing with the articles named "list of minerals" :-). I have made the {{ List of minerals}} which contains the introduction to the articles. I have put it on the first few articles, and I intend to put it on the rest, if you (and others) like the idea. Christian75 ( talk) 23:31, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, This paper could insterrest you, I think.
Blair Schoene, Kyle M. Samperton, Michael P. Eddy, Gerta Keller, Thierry Adatte, Samuel A. Bowring, Syed F. R. Khadri & Brian Gertsch (2014) U-Pb geochronology of the Deccan Traps and relation to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction ; Revue Science ; en ligne le 11 Décembre 2014 (
abstract)
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Hello, I would be interested to discover if you have any comments about my questions about this timeline at Talk:Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals. Thanks. GeoWriter ( talk) 14:04, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I've answered you at my talk page. Eudialytos ( talk) 17:32, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Chris. I have one more question. I sometimes put informations like "this mineral is chemically similar to other minerals, like..."; these informations come from Mindat CHEMICAL SEARCH, thus I provide the link to the search results; however, the Wiki-help page on "External links" says that such links should "generally be avoided". May I leave them as they are? Thanks. Eudialytos ( talk) 22:30, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
I have started a rather rogue stub kalgoorlieite which is legit
BUT although I have been a geological field assistant in the deep dark past, I cannot for the likes of me work out how to transpose the info available into a meaningful table on the right hand side... is that something you are good at ? JarrahTree 13:34, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for what you have done already! In the wp article on arsenic it seems to deny the existence of As Te minerals, is there any reason for a sort of claim for that - when the material on kalgoorlieite has three others that are specifically identified as such ? JarrahTree 13:38, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
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The name
fougèrite seems to be exclusively a French language spelling. The mineral's name seems to be invariably spelled "fougerite" in all English literature.
While articles about persons and place names should try to use the spelling of the name in the original language (when feasible, and when it has not been Anglicized by tradition), thre is no reason to extend that regard to things that were named after them. The use of original diacritics would be extremely impractical, given that there are literally hundreds of variants of the Latin alphabet with idiosyncratic markings: Polish, Czech, Vietnamese, Turkish, Hungarian, Guarany, ... --
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Hi Chris.urs-o. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 13:32, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Chris! You've been really helpful with your edits to widgiemoolthalite. I was thinking of nominating the article to GA, since there are perilously few Good Articles about minerals ( vanadinite, on which I based the widgiemoolthalite article, is presently the only other one, I think). Since you seem to know mineralogy better than I do, do you see any glaring errors or holes in coverage you think would need to be fixed in order to reach GA? Thanks in advance for your advice and help! Best, BobAmnertiopsis ∴ ChatMe! 19:49, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hallo, I notice that you've added the category Category:Geological type localities which isn't supported by anything in the text. I removed the unsourced wording "The gcwihaba caves are formed in the state of the carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate known as the dolomite, ideally CaMg(CO3)2. The caves are formed when the wetter conditions together with acidulous water flowing from underground dissolved the rocks." in the course of a major cleanup, but even that doesn't suggest a type locality. Could you add something sourced to the article to justify the category, and to improve the article? Thanks. Pam D 08:37, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
I was wondering if you're interested in or knowledgeable about crystal structures, and even if not, if you can direct me to any active users who are? I'm asking you because you seem to be involved with stuff regarding minerals. OrganoMetallurgy ( talk) 18:47, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Greetings, Chris.urs-o! It's RockMagnetist under a slightly different name. I'm wondering if you'd be o.k. with my moving Organic compounds (minerals) to Classification of organic minerals. This would better describe its current contents and conform with titles like Classification of non-silicate minerals. I would like to create a page titled either Organic compound (mineral) or Organic mineral that is organized as an article rather than a list; you can see the current draft at User:RockMagnetist (DCO visiting scholar)/Drafts/Organic mineral. I want to create it as a reasonably complete article so I can promote it with DYK. RockMagnetist (DCO visiting scholar) ( talk) 23:12, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. You are mixing English and Portuguese here [5], and at a few other mineral lists. Christian75 ( talk) 13:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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