wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals

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:::*WikiProject Rocks and minerals

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• Also see the various discussions on infoboxes, currently broken into at least two areas: infobox and the infobox talk page.

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• Carbonite09 - Well,Carbon is my thing
• ebe123
• elf
• Hadal - naturally.
• puggo (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2019 (UTC), as I learn
• User:Ktsquare (Chemist in the making and amateur geologist)
• Vsmith 01:40, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC) I have been working on mineral, rock & geology entries. Just found this project. Geologist and chemistry teacher.
• Ixfd64 - as noted on my user page, geology has always been one of my interests, so count me in! (on hiatus)
• {{User|LadyofShalott}} - particularly interested in igneous & metmorphic rocks
• User:GeoWriter
• User:Kevmin A contributer to Mindat.org from a number of years and a mineral collector
• User:tharikrish Geologist
• User:Presidentman
• 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:Reconrabbit - there's a lot of overlap in mineralogy and inorganic chemistry!
• I₂Overcome ^talk — My initial focus will be on bringing this mostly defunct project up to date, improving the formatting and implementation of Template:Infobox mineral, cleaning up the articles for silicate minerals, and writing new content in some needy areas.

• User:Chris857 - writing and expanding mineral articles
• 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)
• Tobias1984 Currently working with metamorphic and igneous rocks and will help out where I can. --Tobias1984 (talk) 15:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
• User:Qfl247 - Sed geo who considers himself very well rounded...
• User:Abridged Physician, I like rocks! Abridged ^talk 20:49, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
• Belovedfreakand adam really like chicken
• AstroHurricane001 - I'll try working on pages related to rocks and minerals, etc.
• Riffsyphon1024, geology student, also working on geologic formations and planetary geology articles.
• DanielCD
• Jll, periodically
• A.Grace - Amature collector
• mav (amateur geologist)
• Greudin, sporadically.
• chd, most of the time at the german wikipedia.
• fiveless Sometimes, when I'm not doing something else on Wikipedia.
• Ballista I enjoy adding geological info to articles and editing geological articles, so I join here, despite lack of time and special expertise.
• Afrotrance
• - Iotha, sporadically
• Linnell, geology student
• User:Jmpenzone, geoscientist/geologist
• User:fossiliferous Geochemist
• AlexNebraska (talk) 22:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• User:Razorflame I love rocks and minerals and will help write and/or help any articles that need to be created or helped.
• User:MED usgswrd -(MEDegnan) Geologist by training, interested in sedimentary and hydrothermal minerals
• User:John Mortimore
• User:Duanuys
• User:FinkyOfNalanja vague interest in obscure mineralogy

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• /Infobox discussion
• /Worklist
• /Draft on mineral notability
• /Main page archive

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For minerals, mineral groups, and mineral varieties:

• Infobox mineral

For all rocks:

• Infobox rock

For rock units:

• Infobox rockunit

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{{maincat|Mineral stub templates}}

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For recognition of contributions to the Rocks and Minerals Wikiproject, place {{tlsx|The Mineralogy Barnstar|message|~~~~}} on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

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• University of Houston, Department of Geosciences, 'adopt-a-mineral' term paper for the course Geology 3370 - Introduction to Mineralogy, prof. Jonathan E. Snow, instructor
• Fall 2007: pabstite, atheneite, lawsonite, tschermakite, covellite, moissanite, wadsleyite, afwillite, wollastonite, iddingsite, penroseite, scheelite, sperrylite, santabarbaraite, celsian, julgoldite, krutovite, jerrygibbsite
• Wikipedia:School and university projects/2003-2008 past projects#University of Houston, Houston, TX – Mineralogy Project (Fall 2007)
• Fall 2009: chambersite, alacránite, coyoteite, balangeroite, calumetite, bursaite, cleusonite, colimaite, creedite, clearcreekite, campigliaite, changbaiite, cesanite, cervandonite, coconinoite, boleite, chaidamuite, ashburtonite, bilinite, baotite, bararite, athabascaite, coloradoite, bonaccordite, bystrite, bastnäsite, chamosite, bukovite, beraunite, ashoverite, bityite, cyrilovite, bergenite
• Wikipedia:School and university projects/2009 past projects#University of Houston, Houston, TX – Mineralogy Project (Fall 2009)
• Fall 2011: garnierite, perhamite, geigerite, partheite, chrisstanleyite, schreyerite, carnallite, ullmannite, jarosewichite, murdochite, delafossite, maricite, lorandite, warikahnite, donnayite-(Y), satterlyite, dollaseite-(Ce), baddeleyite, alforsite, bornite, perovskite, coffinite, dickite, zanazziite, hübnerite, penikisite, braggite, huttonite?, kankite?
• Wikipedia:School and university projects/2011 past projects#University of Houston, Houston, TX – Mineralogy Project (Fall 2011)
• Fall 2013: brazilianite, chalveticeite, hidalgoite, natromontebrasite, guyanaite, eveslogite, ephesite, hubeite, hiärneite, gordaite, greifensteinite, gugiaite, farneseite, ferrogedrite, ferronigerite-2N1S, franklinphilite, chatkalite, bicchulite
• Univ. Houston, Earth Materials, Mrs. Catlos: eveite (Fall 2010)
• Newbies: User talk:Tony00345 (pseudowollastonite, 2009), User talk:Friedshrimp007 (ericssonite, 2010), User talk:Rshah1018 (raspite and roselite, 2010), User talk:Jburke430 (chesterite, 2010), User talk:Kelhansard (cymrite, 2010), User talk:Molyru (grandreefite, 2010), User talk:Skibo112 (schäferite, 2010)

• July 2014: The entry for Fullers Earth[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller%27s_earth] discusses only the cosmetic product. I don't have the expertise to edit this, but perhaps the British Geological Survey article at [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=FE] is a good start if somebody has the time and inclination
• October 2020: Category talk:Bismuth minerals, :Category:Radioactive minerals - a comment is needed about the radioactivity of bismuth minerals (to prevent edition warring)

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• Add {{reqphoto|mineralogy}} to the talk-page of articles that require a picture. View the requests: :Category:Wikipedia requested images of mineralogy

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• 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)
• Wikipedia:Requested articles/Natural sciences/Environment and geology#Minerals

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