Mindat Mineralogy Messageboard - Best Minerals - General

Best Minerals (1 reply)

KC Dalby — Sun, 05 May 2013 04:12:30 +0000

To Rock Currier:

Am attempting to get into mineral photography for the pupose of making my own collection catalog complete.

Noticed you had some great Kuiu Island photos of fluorite but little about Zarembo Island, Alaska, which I understand must be collected at low tide. Mine is a small handheld with several botryoidal crstals on it-will get you a pic in due time.

KC Dalby

Best Minerals - Hemimorphite (no replies)

Rudolf Hasler — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:38:54 +0000

First draft of Best Minerals - Hemimorphite is finished.

Hemimorphite

Rudolf

Link to Best Minerals articles (12 replies)

Rudolf Hasler — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:54:41 +0000

Hello,
I have noticed that most of my friends have difficulties in finding the Best Minerals articles.
Why not fixing a link on the left side of the mindat home page that everyone can see?
I remember when I coincidentally found Rock's Best Minerals Wulfenite article in March this year.
This phantastic article actually was the reason for me to become a member of mindat instantly.

Rudolf

References for Best Minerals Articles (no replies)

Rock Currier — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:19:58 +0000

This list is under construction.

Below are references for works sited in the Best Minerals Articles.

Handbook of Mineralogy v.1 = Anthony, Bideaux, Bladh and Nichols (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, v. I; Elements, Sulfides, Sulphosalts.

Oxford 2nt = The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition 1989, Claredon Press, Oxford

Writing "Best Minerals" text entries (no replies)

Olav Revheim — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:21:13 +0000

A “Best Minerals” article will normally be based on the combined effort from the article author/editor, input from the Mindat community, information found in magazines and papers as well as direct personal communication with other individuals. The task of preparing an article may seem overwhelming at the beginning, and it is apparent that the entry level threshold for getting started as a “Best Minerals” author is high, possibly higher than necessary. In this text I will present my approach on writing the text entries for an article, and I will refer to Harjo Neutkens excellent text A guide to the lay-out for the Best Minerals articles for creating an article and preparing the layout.

The intention behind this text is to show that anyone with some interest and general geology and mineralogy knowledge can write Best mineral articles based on a structured search for information even with very little or no specific knowledge of the mineral or the locality in advance.

I am starting by reviewing all photos for the specific mineral in the database, selecting those I think may be relevant for the “Best Minerals” article. I create a “under construction” article in the “Best Minerals” message board listing all the localities and photos I think will be relevant, following Harjo’s guidelines and advice for the layout to the best of my patience and abilities. This will create a number of information “blocks”, or localities to be included in the article. The screen shot below illustrates one of these initial “blocks”.


© Olav Revheim

In order to prepare the text for these blocks, I use the following method:
1- Search for and store information from various sources
2- Skim through information and check for relevance- delete non-relevant information
3- Read the reminding documentation and paste the most relevant sections into a word document.
4- If necessary, contact photo uploaders, Mindat experts or paper authors directly for more specific information.
5- Prepare a “cut and paste” draft text
6- Write the text and update the best mineral article block with a text entry.
7- Move on to the next block.
8- When all blocks are filled, writing the article introduction is very much straight forward.

Normally, I will have little or no knowledge of the locality and the occurrence of the mineral from a locality, I have used riebeckite from Quincy, Massachusetts as an example. If I am lucky, someone with a detailed knowledge on the locality will step forward and share information in a post in the forum, if not, I start looking for information.

The best place to start is the photo caption and the locality description on Mindat, including the detailed mineral report. This will sometimes provide valuable information on the mineral and the locality, either directly or by listing references. In this specific case not much appeared. See locality page and Detailed mineral report

Then there is the internet. The wealth of information available amazes me. There are some default sources I check out first. Rruff.info is one of them. I look up riebeckite and find at the bottom of the page a list of references, often available as a downloadable pdf. Rruff.info also has a searchable archive of older volumes of the Mineralogical magazine. Needless to say, the archive is bookmarked as a favorite in my web browser. Quite often, something will appear from there.


rruff.info riebeckite references	© Olav Revheim


Mineralogial Magazine archive	© Olav Revheim

General searches will also be helpful. I often start with a wide search, such as “riebeckite Massachusetts”. I am in particular looking for pdf’s, google books, archive.org or similar sites where full documents can be read or downloaded. Many sites presents only the abstracts, but these may occationaly be helpful. In this case the general search was helpful, but for more remote localities with less information published even more general searches exemplified with “Quincy geology”, “Massachusetts amphibole”, “ petrology, Massachusetts” etc. may be necessary.


Internet search results, Cape Ann granite	© Olav Revheim

After browsing through the information gathered by general searches, more detailed searches my reveal addition information. In this case I used searches like “granite new England history” and “Cape Ann granite riebeckite” gave even more information.
For this Quincy granite riebeckite block I downloaded 14 documents and links representing articles, books, thesis’, papers etc. ranging in content from petrology, analysis of riebeckites, early 20th century field observations, a guidebook and an online book on the history of the New England granite industry. All very interesting reading.

Web information formats:


pdf's	© Olav Revheim


online book	© Olav Revheim


google books	© Olav Revheim

From this information I prepare a “cut and paste” word document with bits and pieces from different sources. These cut and paste text blocks of 1-2 pages forms the draft text for the article entry. At this stage I will have a good overview of the locality, and can easily identify if I there are some issues that need clarification. For the New England riebeckites, I’ve had a very pleasant e-mail correspondence with Van King to discuss the occurrence of riebeckite, arfvedsonite and other amphiboles in these granites.
I then write the text entry, and add to the article, I try to include information on

• How the mineral occurs and how large crystals that has been found
• Some geological/petrological background and associated minerals
• The significance of the locality
• Any site descriptions as relevant
• Any use of the material
• Any good stories that may be available

I tend to include more text on the significant occurences, may be as much as 20 lines of text, and less, may be only a couple of lines on the less significant or really obscure/remote localities.
The final result can be found here: riebeckite series article.

Construction signs (no replies)

Rock Currier — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:36:23 +0000

Possible temporary construction signs for our articles.


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A guide to the lay-out for the Best Minerals articles (3 replies)

Harjo Neutkens — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:33:45 +0000

Some advice about the lay-out of the Best Minerals articles

All the articles start with the Best Minerals navigation options, followed by a blank line. This is followed by our standard introduction text (Can you help etc....)
Then leave two blank lines followed by the mineral name in bold letters, linked to the mineral's Mindat page.
On a new line will come the mineral formula in bold immediately followed on the same line by the crystal structure (in normal letters)
Then two blank lines followed by a large photo showing an exceptional specimen for the mineral.
This photo should be followed by one blank line followed by the introduction text for the mineral.
After this text block another two blank lines should follow before the first locality entry.
For the introduction section it will look like the following example:

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Click here to view Best Minerals E and here for Best Minerals A to Z and here for Fast Navigation of completed Best Minerals articles.

Can you help make this a better article? What good localities have we missed? Can you supply pictures of better specimens than those we show here? Can you give us more and better information about the specimens from these localities? Can you supply better geological or historical information on these localities?

Epidote
{Ca₂}{Al₂Fe³⁺}[O|OH|SiO₄|SiO₇] Monoclinic


Epidote from the Knappenwand, Austria	© Harjo

Epidote is a common mineral found in low to moderately regionally metamorphosed rocks. Epidote also occurs in contact metamorph limestone, especially near ore deposits. In granitic rocks Epidote is found in small fissures.
Until the advent of the discovery of the Knappenwand Epidote was not a popular collectors mineral.
When the first Knappenwand specimens saw the daylight the Strahlers didn't know what they found, only that the crystals were extremely beautiful. Some specimens were then handed over to a dealer who got them analysed. From then on the news travelled fast, spreading over Europe and soon arriving in the USA.
Most of the early specimens consequently landed in the USA where many still reside.
For a long time the Knappenwand remained the only locality delivering outstanding specimens.
The first locality since the Knappenwand that delivered very good specimens was Green monster Mountain in Alaska, followed by localities in Pakistan and Iran in recent years.
Outstanding specimens from either of the top localities command very high prices with the Knappenwand ranking first, for the amount of money needed to buy a really top class Knappenwand specimen one can also buy a house......or two..

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In code it will look like this (on the XX places you fill in mineral name, size, locality, mineral id, locality id, etc)


© Harjo

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For the individual locality entries you start with the mineral name in bold letters. On the next line comes the country name in bold. Then on the next line the locality name linked to the locality page, also in bold letters. The hierarchy in the locality name should be from large to small i.e. County or province, mountain range, valley, municipality, village, quarry, mine or deposit.
Then one blank line followed by the photos. For the different possibilities for making a nice photo block see the next message.
Below the photo block will follow one blank line, followed by the description of the locality and its minerals.
This in turn will be followed by two blank lines before the next locality.
It will look like this:

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Anatase
Austria
Salzburg, Hohe Tauern Mts, Habach valley, Gamseck Mt. area, Leffler Brunnen


Anatase, Adularia FOV 0,8cm	© Harjo


Anatase, Adularia FOV 0,8cm	© Harjo


Anatase, Quartz FOV 0,6cm	© Harjo


Anatase, Adularia FOV 0,6cm	© Harjo

In 2005 a very interesting and prolific Anatase locality was discovered near the Leffler source in the lower Habach valley. Several Quartz fissures in black Phylite (Schwarzphylit, a grey to black Schist) were encountered holding hundreds of Anatase accompanied by Brookite, Rutile, Ilmenite, Apatite, Synchysite, Calcite, Aragonite, Adularia and Quartz crystals. Most of the Anatase crystals show a tabular habit and have an almost opaque black colour although blue Anatase crystals showing a double pyramidal habit have also been found in 2007. Two other noteworthy Anatase localities in the lower Habach valley close to the Leffler source are the Windbach and the Schönbach valleys, it is said that in the early 1900s or late 1800s an Anatase crystal has been found in the Schönbach area measuring 4 cm. Nowadays it is still quite easy to find nice blue Anatase in the Schönbach up to 0,5 cm in length. The best locality for Anatase in the upper Habach valley is the Teufelsmüle area, an area most famous for fantastic finds of electric green Sphene.
[Harjo Neutkens 2009]

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In code it will look like this (on the XX places you fill in mineral name, size, locality, mineral id, locality id, etc)


© Harjo

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Best Minerals: lay-out (11 replies)

Harjo Neutkens — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:54:09 +0000

For those eager to participate in the Best Minerals project... here's a lay-out proposition for the introduction:


Introduction	© Harjo

100!!!!!!! (2 replies)

Harjo Neutkens — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:25:04 +0000

May I bring to your attention that the Best Minerals project recently past the 100 articles!!!!! :)-D
We're now at 101 articles...and counting ;-)

Cheers,

Harjo

Topaz, split the atrticle? (11 replies)

Harjo Neutkens — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:45:57 +0000

Hi,

The Topaz article will become extremely large so....
Shall we split the (yet to be made...) Topaz article, f.i. have one article for each continent.
Topaz-Europe, Topaz-Asia, Topaz-Africa, Topaz-America, Topaz-Australasia.
I think the articles will be much better loadable and legible this way.
I can do Europe.
Maybe Ralph is interested in doing Australasia, Rock for the Americas ;-)
Anyone interested in doing Africa or Asia (Bill ;-) ?

Cheers

Harjo

Best - links (11 replies)

David Von Bargen — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:23:06 +0000

I wrote a report on the articles that have been linked from their main mineral page. [www.mindat.org] When you get to the point where you are satisfied that things are complete, the mineral page should be edited to show the link.

Some very helpful information on type localities (1 reply)

Sebastian Möller — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:21:56 +0000

Hello.

Here is a link to the English Version of the type mineral catalogue of the Hamburg University, including all minerals of which the tyoe material is in Germany. Maybe helpful to all who want to write an article in Best Minerals.

Look here.

Best Regards and a Happy New Year!!

Sebastian Möller

Fast navigation list for species that have had a first draft completed. (no replies)

Rock Currier — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:27:40 +0000

Here is a list of minerals where we have completed a first draft on an article about them or at least taken a pretty good whack at it. Just click on the mineral that is of interest to you and you will be taken to that article. Moderators, when you or a non moderator finishes a first draft on an article, please place it here in alphabetical order with a link to that article.

All the rest of the minerals have yet to be written about or the images to represent them selected and are just waiting for someone like you to come along and write the article. This project is scheduled for completion in June, 2384. (Rock, I thought we agreed on 2383.......)

Acanthite Rock Currier
Actinolite Rock Currier
Adamite Rock Currier
Aegirine Rock Currier
Aeschynite-(Ce), (Nd), (Y) Rock Currier
Agardite-(Ce), (Dy?) (La) & (Y) Rock Currier
Ajoite Rock Currier
Alabandite Rock Currier
Aluminium Rock Currier
Amphibole group part 1 Olav Revheim
Amphibole group part 2 Olav Revheim
Andalusite Olav Revheim
Annabergite Rock Currier
Anatase Harjo Neutkens
Andradite A to M Rock Currier
Andradite N to Z Rock Currier
Anglesite Rock Currier
Anthophyllite Olav Revheim
Apuanite Rock Currier
Arfvedsonite Olav Revheim
Arsenic Rock Currier
Arsenolamprite Rock Currier
Astrocyanite-(Ce) Rock Currier
Atacamite Ralph Bottrill
Atelestite Rock Currier
Azurite Rock Currier
Azurite, Tsumeb Rock Currier
Azurite, Bisbee Rock Currier
Baryte-Australia Ralph Bottrill
Baryte, Belgium Harjo Neutkens
Benitoite Rock Currier
Beryl Harjo Neutkens
Beryl var. Emerald Harjo Neutkens
Beryl var. Red Beryl Harjo Neutkens
Boracite Alfredo Petrov
Borax Rock Currier
Brannerite Rock Currier
Buergerite Rock Currier
Bustamite Ralph Bottrill
Calcite, Austria Rudolf Hasler
Calcite, Belgium Harjo Neutkens
Calcite, USA, Nevada to Wyoming Rock Currier
Calcite, USA, Alabama to Montana Rock Currier
Cassiterite (started with Australian locations) Ralph Bottrill
Cerussite David von Bargen
Chalcopyrite Rock Currier
Chloro-potassicpargasite Olav Revheim
Chromium-dravite Rock Currier
Chromo-alumino-povondraite Rock Currier
Cordierite Olav Revheim
Colemanite Rock Currier
Copper David Von Bargen
Covellite David Von Bargen
Cronstedtite Rock Currier
Crocoite (nearly complete) Ralph Bottrill
Cummingtonite Olav Revheim
Cuprite Rock Currier
Datolite Rock Currier
Davidite-(Ce) Rock Currier
Davidite-(La) Rock Currier
Dravite Rock Currier
Dreyerite Roger Lang
Edenite Olav Revheim
Elbaite, Afghanistan to Nigeria Rock Currier
Elbaite, Pakistan to Zambia Rock Currier
Epidote Harjo Neutkens
Ferri-ferrowinchite Olav Revheim
Ferrikatophorite Olav Revheim
Ferriwinchite Olav Revheim
Ferristrunzite Harjo Neutkens
Ferro-anthophyllite Olav Revheim
Ferro-edenite Olav Revheim
Ferroglaucophane Olav Revheim
Ferrohornblende Olav Revheim
Ferrokaersutite Olav Revheim
Ferropargasite Olav Revheim
Ferrorichterite Olav Revheim
Ferrowinchite Olav Revheim
Feruvite Rock Currier
Fluor-dravite Rock Currier
Fluor-elbaite Rock Currier
Fluor-feruvite Rock Currier
Fluor-liddicoatite Rock Currier
Fluor-schorl Rock Currier
Fluoro-edenite Olav Revheim
Fluoro-magnesioarfvedsonite Olav Revheim
Fluor-magnesiokatophorite Olav Revheim
Fluoropargasite Olav Revheim
Fluoro-potassic-magnesioarfvedsonite Olav Revheim
Fluoro-potassic-pargasite Olav Revheim
Fluoro-potassicrichterite Olav Revheim
Fluororichterite Olav Revheim
Fluorite, Australia Ralph Bottrill
Fluorite, Austria Rudolf Hasler
Fluorite, Belgium Harjo Neutkens
Fluorite, Germany Rock Currier
Fluorite, United Kingdon Jesse Fisher
Fluorite, United States, Alaska to Kentucky David Von Bargen & Rock Currier
Fluorite, United States, Missouri to Wyoming David Von Bargen & Rock Currier
Fluormagnesiohornblende Olav Revheim
Gadolinite-(Ce) Olav Revheim
Gadolinite-(Y) Olav Revheim
Galena David Von Bargen
Glaucophane Olav Revheim
Gold Rock Currier
Grunerite Olav Revheim
Gypsum, Australia Ralph Bottrill
Hematite, Argentina to Morocco Rock Currier
Hematite, Namibia to USA Rock Currier
Hemimorphite Rudolf Hasler
Hydroboracite Rock Currier
Inderite Rock Currier
Inyoite Rock Currier
Kaersutite Olav Revheim
Kanonaite Olav Revheim
Katophorite Olav Revheim
Kamotoite Rock Currier
Kermesite Rock Currier
Kernite Rock Currier
Kurnakovite Rock Currier
Lawsonite Olav Revheim
Luinaite-(OH) Rock Currier
Magnesioarfvedsonite Olav Revheim
Magnesiofoitite Rock Currier
Magnesiohornblende Olav Revheim
Magnesioferrikatophorite Olav Revheim
Magnesiokatophorite Olav Revheim
Magnesioriebeckite Olav Revheim
Magnetite Rock Currier
Manganocummingtonite Olav Revheim
Manganogrunerite Olav Revheim
Meyerhofferite Rock Currier
Millerite Harjo Neutkens
Mirabilite Rock Currier
Muscovite David Von Bargen
Nobleite Rock Currier
Olenite Rock Currier
Oxy-dravite Rock Currier
Oxy-rossmanite Rock Currier
Oxy-schorl Rock Currier
Pääkkönenite Rock Currier
Pargasite Olav Revheim
Parvomanganoedenite Olav Revheim
Parvowinchite Olav Revheim
Permanganogrunerite Olav Revheim
Polybasite Rob Woodside
Potassicarfvedsonite Olav Revheim
Potassicpargasite Olav Revheim
Potassic-ferropargasite Olav Revheim
Potassicrichterite Olav Revheim
Povondraite Rock Currier
Prehnite - Australia to United Kingdom Rock Currier
Prehnite - United States of America Rock Currier
Probertite Rock Currier
Protoanthophyllite Olav Revheim
Protoferro-anthophyllite Olav Revheim
Protomangano-ferro-anthophyllite Olav Revheim
Pseudomalachite (startup is made) Roger Lang
Pseudomorphs & Replacements A & B Rock Currier
Pseudomorphs & Replacements C Rock Currier
Pseudomorphs & Replacements D to I Rock Currier
Pseudomorphs & Replacements J to M Rock Currier
Pseudomorphs & Replacements N to P Rock Currier
Pseudomorphs & Replacements Q Rock Currier
Pseudomorphs & Replacements R to Z Rock Currier
Pyrite, Angola to Luxembourg
Pyrite, Mexico to Turkey
Pyrite, United Kingdom to Zimbabwe
Pyromorphite other than Germany Ralph Bottrill
Pyromorphite, Germany Roger Lang
Quartz, Australia Ralph Bottrill
Quartz, Austria Harjo Neutkens
Quartz, Belgium Harjo Neutkens
Quartz, Canada Philippe M. Belley
Quartz, Germany Rock Currier
Quartz,USA, Alabama to California Rock Currier
Quartz, USA, Colorado to Montana Rock Currier
Quartz, USA, Nebraska to Oklahoma Rock Currier
Quartz, Oregon to Wyoming Rock Currier
Rhodochrosite Rock Currier
Rhodonite Ralph Bottrill
Richterite Olav Revheim
Riebeckite Olav Revheim
Rossmanite Rock Currier
Ruthenium Rock Currier
Rutile Rock Currier
Sampleite Rock Currier
Santafeite Rock Currier
Schalenblende Harjo Neutkens
Schorl Rock Currier
Sekaninaite Olav Revheim
Silver David Von Bargen
Stichtite Ralph Bottrill
Smithsonite Rock Currier
Sodicanthophyllite Olav Revheim
Sodicferroanthophyllite Olav Revheim
Spencerite Rock Currier
Sulfur David Von Bargen
Szenicsite Rock Currier
Tailaisite Rock Currier
Thenardite Rock Currier
Thortvetite Olav Revheim
Tincalconite Rock Currier
Titanite Rudolf Hasler
Topaz Harjo Neutkens
Tremolite Olav Revheim
Tunellite Rock Currier
Turquoise Harjo Neutkens
Tungsten Rob Woodside
Ulexite Rock Currier
Vajdakite Rock Currier
Vantasselite Harjo Neutkens
Weddellite Rock Currier
Winchite Olav Revheim
Wulfenite Rock Currier
Xenotime-(Y) Harjo Neutkens
Zunyite Rock Currier

Best Minerals - An Organizational and Editorial Quagmire (19 replies)

Anonymous User — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:05:20 +0000

Rock,

I would like to see mediawiki software employed, as is currently used for the mindat user manual, in order to better organize the information going into the Best Minerals. The project would displayed more effectively using more hyperlinks to individual pages organized by country and region etc. Dynamic editorial controls and notations on individual pages would really improve things. For the encyclopedia of best minerals, I think this improvement would be both mentally stimulating and visually appealing!

Scott

Scope of subject (10 replies)

malcolm chapman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:09:10 +0000

This subject has been going some time but has up to now escaped my attention due to me not going down the message board far enough. I can see a lot of work has been done and it is a bit late for my pennysworth. As far as I can see no-one has expressed a view identical to my thinking and I apologise if I have missed it.

The dangers are already evident. How many best minerals can there be for any particular type? What variations should be taken into account? What locations should be included? and so on.Then there is a question of expertise. No single person or even group will know all of even the most important information on a subject.

Members in their time will have contributed many excellent thesis or articles on various subjects and no doubt many of those overlap. So you get the potential for diversity of opinion between well versed people as it has ever been in the history of science.

To bring this all into one database and expect agreement is asking for the impossible. It will therefore be a moving feast, and there is nothing wrong with that.

It all comes back to the scope of the subject. I think the range being discussed at present is far too wide. Too much is to be taken into account. Take any rocks and minerals book and generally there will be only one picture of a mineral or rock. It will not be the very best but almost certainly it will be better than one is likely to find.

Mindat has far better resources but in my view the scope of this subject should not go too much further. Perhaps each main subject should be limited to the top ten specimens including variants. That will be hard to do but achievable. Perhaps a vote from a group of moderators could decide each original group? Any suggested change from the original to be dealt with in a similar fashion.

Nothing else should be taken into account. The ten visually best with all relevant information will be the reference work. Perhaps addendas could be added where regarded necessary but they could be decided individually.

The idea is to make it relatively easy to prepare and relatively easy to take in the information.

Having being completed a separate work could be setup in turn for variations excluded from the first work. eg best sites: rarities: etc. perhaps these can be broken down into countries or continents? There is no limit except data space available. After all one would expect all items to be in the main database, It is just a way of extracting interesting groups.

At the end of the day what is needed with an existing database is an interrogation program. There is already such a program being used for identity. What would be needed is another group of markers to enable extraction. That would save database space. The extracted list would not need to be saved. It would be done by adding the different distinguishing markers only for those chosen to be on a particular list.

Scrolling new topic (1 reply)

David Von Bargen — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:37:56 +0000

One tip for those who just want to look at the new posts and have trouble with the last post constantly scrolling off the bottom of the page.

You can view the posts in reverse order from the RSS feed. The new ones are at the top and won't go scrolling off as the photos are being downloaded. Once through reading them, you will also have to go in and click on the "mark Forum read" button.

What we should be working on (4 replies)

Rock Currier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:09:53 +0000

A while ago I asked Dave to generate a list of what minerals got the most queries here on Mindat. He provided me with a long list in order of most hits down to a few hits of the things people were trying to look up on mindat. I thought that this might provide us a with a guide of where we might want to spend our time. Here are the top 100 or so most asked about minerals here on mindat. the first number after the html number are the number of people hitting on that mineral.

Quartz= /min-3337.html 5844 49.68 KB 1883 235
Gold= /min-1720.html 4138 74.50 KB 983 227
Calcite= /min-859.html 3454 105.83 KB 867 114
Pyrite= /min-3314.html 3272 57.10 KB 1017 127
Hematite= /min-1856.html 2976 59.27 KB 1000 103
Galena= /min-1641.html 2756 38.10 KB 609 95
Fluorite= /min-1576.html 2546 48.03 KB 656 75
Gypsum= /min-1784.html 2268 57.11 KB 814 88
Magnetite= /min-2538.html 2108 56.53 KB 645 80
Malachite= /min-2550.html 1667 46.86 KB 546 59
Tourmaline= /min-4003.html 1650 55.28 KB 371 72
Diamond= /min-1282.html 1629 64.96 KB 429 92
Copper= /min-1209.html 1606 54.79 KB 509 92
Muscovite= /min-2815.html 1512 109.14 KB 378 45
Topaz= /min-3996.html 1450 59.68 KB 385 44
Dolomite= /min-1304.html 1413 52.71 KB 405 59
Chalcopytiet= /min-955.html 1373 67.95 KB 253 30
Baryte= /min-549.html 1349 60.83 KB 228 111
Sphalerite= /min-3727.html 1309 58.63 KB 214 38
Corundum= /min-1136.html 1260 55.02 KB 322 33
Azurite= /min-447.html 1239 47.85 KB 298 38
Corderite= /min-1128.html 1238 65.27 KB 628 74
Zircon= /min-4421.html 1235 74.69 KB 325 52
Opal= /min-3004.html 1208 31.92 KB 430 61
Talc= /min-3875.html 1203 103.87 KB 451 46
Rutile= /min-3486.html 1199 61.60 KB 254 56
agate= /min-51.html 1143 16.00 KB 400 50
emerald= /min-1375.html 1135 71.10 KB 382 66
Silver= /min-3664.html 1097 60.20 KB 339 50
Graphite= /min-1740.html 1096 59.14 KB 426 58
Beryl= /min-819.html 1087 54.54 KB 168 24
Garnet= /min-1651.html 1069 38.67 KB 135 33
Aragonite= /min-307.html 1061 58.96 KB 217 25
Turquoise= /min-4060.html 1052 54.19 KB 366 63
limonite= /min-2402.html 980 19.65 KB 317 52
Goethite= /min-1719.html 960 39.42 KB 196 29
amethyst= /min-198.html 953 17.54 KB 278 51
biotite= /min-677.html 925 96.30 KB 136 24
Olivine= /min-2983.html 914 36.58 KB 241 44
Halite= /min-1804.html 899 36.02 KB 257 37
tiff= /min-27269.html 893 7.86 KB 383 239
Albite= /min-96.html 871 56.88 KB 130 20
Cassiterite= /min-917.html 864 60.66 KB 189 10
Epidote= /min-1389.html 852 83.59 KB 155 28
chalcedony= /min-960.html 852 19.94 KB 242 38
bauxite/min-575.html 834 74.68 KB 378 64
Cinnabar= /min-1052.html 817 37.57 KB 226 40
ruby= /min-3473.html 810 63.61 KB 294 42
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sapphire= /min-3529.html 603 16.28 KB 213 28
blue quartz= /min-26723.html 600 35.33 KB 257 33
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Covellite= /min-1144.html 569 42.63 KB 108 26
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apatite= /min-29229.html 508 27.37 KB 54 4
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Titanite= /min-3977.html 502 75.84 KB 39 9
Arsenopyrite= /min-305.html 499 47.49 KB 62 13
Spodumene= /min-3733.html 499 45.23 KB 101 17
Cerussite= /min-934.html 494 50.07 KB 30 2
Wolframite= /min-4305.html 484 37.85 KB 106 22
rose quartz= /min-3456.html 482 14.06 KB 149 27
Chalcocite= /min-962.html 482 52.83 KB 50 9

Does anyone have any idea why "tiff" and Lindackerite should show up in the first hundred? I can almost see school teachers asking their kids to look up stuff on mindat or something for tiff, but Lindackerite? I don't know what this all means but it is interesting. The number of hits were only for part of the month as of the time of Dave's query to the system, but he did go back and confirm that tiff and Lindackerite were not a flash in the pan but appeared in the top one hundred queries on other months as well.

I have the entire list stashed over in a management thread and Ill post it here if there is any interest in seeing the entire list. However, it lists only the /min-xxxxno.html and to find what mineral it refers to you will have to go and enter each number and call up that species page. If someone would like to undertake that task Ill be more than glad to post the list here.

It might make sense to focus our efforts on minerals that appear to me the most popular. I don't know, what do you think?

Minerals most view on mindat (no replies)

Rock Currier — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:02:25 +0000

The following list of minerals and the number of times they were viewed by users on Mindat in May 08 was prepared by Davis Van Bargen. They probably represent a good gage of what minerals people are most interested in and as such may be a good guide for us to follow in writing about minerals.

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jasper= /min-2082.html 685 14.84 KB 259 38
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onyx= /min-2999.html 671 27.74 KB 363 41
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Marcasite= /min-2571.html 664 48.32 KB 181 40
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Pyrrhotite= /min-3328.html 561 38.04 KB 83 19
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lignite= /min-9354.html 520 40.42 KB 130 89
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apatite= /min-29229.html 508 27.37 KB 54 4
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Spodumene= /min-3733.html 499 45.23 KB 101 17
Cerussite= /min-934.html 494 50.07 KB 30 2
Wolframite= /min-4305.html 484 37.85 KB 106 22
rose quartz= /min-3456.html 482 14.06 KB 149 27
Chalcocite= /min-962.html 482 52.83 KB 50 9

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Work in progress in Best Minerals (81 replies)

Rock Currier — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:55:20 +0000

Here is the work currently in progress in the Best Minerals project: Moderators of the Best Minerals Project are encouraged to edit this post and tell us all what they are working on.

Rock Currier
Long term goals:
1. Finish scanning my locality images and upload them to Mindat.
2. Take advantage of good information as it appears add to the Best Minerals articles.
3. Try and ride herd on others who would like to help with the project and keep the formatting of the articles as consistent as possible.

Under Construction
Cuprite

Rob Woodside
Polybasite

Ralph Bottrill
Axinite
Rhodonite
Fluorite, Australia
Baryte-Australia
Atacamite (nearly complete)
Cassiterite (started with Australian locations)

Roger Lang
Pseudomalachite (startup is made)

Harjo Neutkens
Finished first draft of Topaz
Finished first draft of Xenotime-(Y)
Finished first draft Quartz, Austria
Started Aquamarine
Starting Morganite
Starting Heliodor
Starting Goshenite
Writing a Best Minerals lay-out guide

Olav Revheim
Finished first draft of Tremolite
Starting the Amphiboles

Philippe M. Belley
Quartz, Canada

Alfredo Petrov
Chambersite

Jolyon Ralph
Gypsum, United Kingdom.

David Joice
Cubanite

Rudolf Hasler
Finished first draft Fluorite, Austria
Finished first draft Titanite
Finished first draft Calcite, Austria
Starting Hemimorphite

Linking species and localities to their data pages (1 reply)

Rock Currier — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:10:58 +0000

It was recommended that in the articles we generate that we link the species name with its data page. I think this is a good idea. It also occurred to me that we could do the same for each locality mentioned. This would be a fair amount of extra work to create all the extra links and when the user can click on any picture or caption and be taken to the full size image with the full caption and other data and can from there click on the species name or the locality and be taken to their pages it will probably not be worth the trouble for us to do it. There is the situation however where some of our articles will not have any pictures because there are no pictures on mindat to link to. In these situations, I think we should definitely link the species name and the localities to their pages on mindat. Does everyone know hot to do this? Insert the code string [ url=http://www.mindat.org/xxxxxx etc] selected mineral name or locality goes here[ /url]. I have added an extra space after the right facing brackets so that the code string will be visible here. When you create the code string, you will omit those spaces.

Photos offered by Jordi Fabre (2 replies)

Rock Currier — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:30:37 +0000

Because of a complaint letter I sent out on one of Jordi Fabre's images that he had uploaded here on mindat and subsequent communication with him, he has offered to let us use any of the images he has placed on [www.mineralienatlas.de]. We may look to this as an additional resource for pictures when we think those in the mindat galleries area bit thin. Thank you Jordi.

General comments about the Best Minerals forum (29 replies)

Rock Currier — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:29:38 +0000

If you have comments or suggestions about the Best Minerals forum, this thread is a good place to put them. If you have comments or suggestions about specific minerals or minerals from specific localities you might better place them in the particular thread that deals with them or start a thread of your own. Initially this forum is only available to managers on Mindat, but in time it is hoped that it will be opened to all Mindat users.

Welcome to the Best Minerals Forums (no replies)

Rock Currier — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:35:46 +0000

Welcome to the Best Minerals Forums

The minerals have been divided up into different forms. All the minerals beginning with the letter A are placed in the A Best Minerals forum. The B minerals in the B forum and so on. Each mineral has its own thread in the forums. In a few cases, where the minerals are very common and they are known from very many localities, those minerals have their own forum. These minerals so far are Calcite, Barite, Fluorite, Gypsum and Quartz. For these "large" minerals, each country that produces notable calcite or quartz for example will have its own thread.

What we are trying to do.
The most commonly asked question about a mineral specimen is “What is this thing?” The application of mineralogy will usually provide the answer to this question. The next thing they/we want to know is “Is this thing any good?” The question can take many forms. “What is this specimen worth?” How good is it compared to others of its kind?” Can I get one like it or better? Those are the questions that we want to answer in this forum. No science, including mineralogy can provide us with answers because the answers are subjective. Many of us spend our lives trying to find the answers to these questions. The information is scattered though out the literature on minerals but is mostly in the heads of those of us who are interested in such things. Many of the people active on Mindat spend their lives handling, studying, digging and collecting minerals. In the process we handle large quantities of specimens, sometimes as a business, and in the process we naturally form ideas about the value and rarity of mineral specimens. There is no one place where one can go to find this information, but now there is the growing resource we know as Mindat.

Now, if we want to find out about how good a mineral specimen of dioptase is, we can go to Mindat and look at large numbers of dioptase specimens. Currently that is as about as good as you can get unless you want to spend a lifetime running around the world learning about such things. The purpose of this forum is to provide a means to capture the wisdom and knowledge of Mindat users about how good mineral specimens are and to put it in a convenient format that allow the users to form their own opinions as to what a good mineral specimen its value. We also want this format to be accessible and malleable to the needs of future generations. It is an endeavor very much like that of Wikipedia where everyone who wishes can contribute. This is not a one man show, all who contribute will be required to spend a lot of their time listening to the suggestions of other knowledgeable people and where it makes sense, change what they are writing here.

Scroll now to the bottom of this article and take a look at the article on the mineral Aluminium. This will give you a brief idea of what we are trying to do. Then come back and read about the ten questions we are trying to answer for each significant mineral at a locality.

1. What is the largest crystal of the mineral that the locality has produced?
2. What do the best specimens from this locality look like and where can one be seen?
3. Does the locality produce a variety of different kinds of specimens of this species, and what do the best of each type look like and how many of them were found etc.
4. How abundant are these specimens and when were they found? A type locality? In other words, how rare are they.
5. What are the associated minerals found on specimens from this locality.
6. How do they compare to other specimens of the same mineral from other localities?
7. How much is it worth. This should probably be optional, but in cases where specimens are worth thousands of dollars we should probably say something of the value of these things.
8. What kind of care and feeding do these specimens require? Are they delicate, radioactive, unstable, color changeable etc.?
9. Are the specimens commonly faked, and if so, how to tell if they are?
10. Are there any interesting stories relating to the collecting of these specimens or their discovery as a new mineral?

OK, so what is a significant mineral at a locality? We are not trying to describe all the minerals from every known locality, just the better ones. A general rule of thumb is that if someone has gone to the trouble of taking a picture of a specimen from a particular locality, it may be worth our efforts to include in Best Minerals. If a mineral comes from only one or a very few (<6) localities, even though we may not have a picture of it available, then we will probably want to describe all occurrences of that mineral. At the other end of the spectrum lies calcite. Mindat lists ~16,000 localities for calcite. In the Mindat calcite picture gallery however, there are only ~7500 pictures of calcite specimens representing those localities including many calcites from the same locality. In total there are only several hundred calcite localities represented and we may not want to write about them all. For those more valuable to society, science and collectors we will want to lavish more attention and or show more pictures. If we error in what we exclude or short change in our efforts, there is a very good chance that people who venerate calcite from a particular locality will let us know and we can modify or add to what we have written.

Image selection for Best Minerals.

There has been some confusion about what kind of images we select for The Best Minerals and misconceptions have lead some people to do unnecessary work and submit their images for hoped for inclusion in the project. It seems appropriate at this time to set fourth some guidelines or suggestions about what images are and should be included in this project and hopefully reduce misunderstandings.

The goal of the project is to show people the images of the best specimens we can in hope that these will give the user some standards against they can compare other specimens. At the same time, and perhaps more importantly we want to teach them some mineralogy, geology, mining, history and something about the specimens that they are found of.

Originally the criterion for image selection for The Best Minerals was very simple. Did I want to use a particular image(s) of a species on not. This was fine as long as I was the only one working on the project. However as others became involved, a more detailed set of criterion was needed so that we could all work “on the same page” in harmony. So the criterion sort of became: If you write the article, you select the best images available and those that you find congenial.

Now that even more people are becoming involved almost to the level of the general population, we seem to be need further guidelines for image selection. The few people who are currently involved in generating the articles for this project are all very knowledgeable people with many years of mineralogical and or collecting experience and to a great extent think remarkably alike when it comes to selecting images of good specimens for the project. Some people, who we have encouraged directly or indirectly, to help with this project, do not have the years of experience that the authors have and therefore their ideas about what could or should be shown in our articles are sometimes strikingly different than those of the authors.

This is perhaps best exampled by enthusiastic new comers who have done a little field or silver pick collecting and have encountered a specimen they consider to be a treasure and their enthusiasm for the specimen compels them to wish it recognized by others for the treasure they think they have found. After all they have found the equivalent of gold and diamonds and to them it is very much like they have had the rare privilege of pillaging King Tut’s tomb. How could this specimen(s) not be worthy of inclusion? All experienced collectors have experienced this kind of discovery and self induced euphoria, but after many more years of experience they are able to put it in perspective, though they will always have a soft spot in their heart for their first found treasures. Rarely, very rarely, they may have found something worthy of inclusion here, but most of the time these specimens are rather pedestrian in nature and probably are not worthy of inclusion. As authors we need to understand where they are coming from and let them down as easily as possible.

Another well meaning type of person that we occasionally encounter, who wants to see “his children succeed” are the people that have become fixated on a particular species or group of minerals or specimens from a particular locality. In my case I was afflicted by a bad case of borate on the brain as one of my not very charitable friends liked to call it. In others it may take the form of micro rutile crystals or a particular type of agate or concretions that that they have dug up on a local beach. It often takes years to get over these kinds of obsessions and put your specimens in perspective with the real world, and even if we do manage to put these once overly cherished specimens in to perspective we in all honesty always have a soft place in our hearts for them. Initially we feel that if we can sufficiently educate others, they too will appreciate our cherished specimens, and will appreciate them as much as we do. But in time, lots of time, we have learned that others, in fact most others, do not and will never share our enthusiasm and we reign in our enthusiasm enough so that we don’t make other people uncomfortable. It’s a little bit like someone pushing a political or religious agenda and just don’t know when to stop. Sometimes however, these people just can’t be reasoned with. They are sort of like people trying to sell you stuff over the phone. Sometimes, though you try to be polite to them, you just have to hang up. Allowing well meaning people to brow beat us into including their somewhat less than wonderful images into Best Minerals will not be a service to the users of these articles who are trying to make informed, balanced decisions based on the content of our articles.

In general we pick the best images available to us from the huge Mindat image gallery. We almost always restrict the images we select to those that have been uploaded to the Mindat Gallery. This is because it is convenient and that the copyright of the images have been settled. This is the main reason that we do not select images that are sent to us as an attachments to an email or a thread posting. In those cases where the image is good and of a fine specimen and possibly worthy of inclusion we request that the person who attached the image formally upload it to Mindat. We are sometimes pointed to or are sent images by specimen dealers, of specimens that they have for sale in hopes that we will include them in Best Minerals and therefore put a sort of seal of approval on their specimen. They hope that this will enhance its value and their reputation as a dealer. We view such submissions with a cynical eye and usually hold these images to a somewhat higher standard than we might of others.

For very rare minerals we sometimes can’t find any images of them to include in an article and in these cases we will accept almost any image. Often the images are meaningless because the mineral can’t been seen in the picture or is often so small that it must be carefully pointed out which is the mineral of interest and what the other more obvious minerals are in the picture. Sometimes the mineral or mineral grain is so small that it can only be seen in highly magnified photomicrograph as a tiny blip in a black and white image. If that is all we can get for a particularly small and rare mineral, we will take it.

At the far other end of the scale we encounter minerals like quartz and calcite that are so abundant that we can’t hope to show examples of them from all localities. Every country in the world has quartz and or calcite though fewer than half the countries of the world are represented by images of quartz and calcite in the Mindat image gallery. Should we endeavor to show images of quartz sand grains from every beach or streambed that contains quartz sand? Obviously this is not practical or desirable. Should we then try and show pictures of quartz crystals from every locality that produces quartz crystals? Probably not even all of those. What I would propose is that we try and show examples of all quartz specimens that are commonly found in mineral collections. At least those, and that includes images of agates, opals and other quartz family minerals. At least those. I think we should also show any other rare and strange and wonderful quartz stuff that we think collectors in general will find interesting, but to a great extent this will be left up to the authors to select. The more important the locality, the more images of specimens from that locality should be shown. How many pictures should be shown for a particular locality? There is no limit, but probably more than fifteen or twenty will get us into an area that we don’t want to go, but there may be situations where more will be desirable, we will just have to see how it works out.

I would argue that we should when possible show only images where the entire specimen can be seen and show closeup images of specimens only when the larger specimen is also shown. If someone shows you a picture of just a part of a specimen and asks you "How much is this specimen worth?", what would you tell them. You would say, show me a picture of the entire specimen because I can't make a judgement bases on a view of only a part of the specimen. Since a major part of the purpose of this project is to allow people to make their own value judgments, it is essential that we only use close up images if they are accompanied by a whole specimen image.

What about pictures of micro crystals? If the species is not found in larger crystals, then pictures of microscopic crystals are what we should show. Even if the species does come in larger crystals we still can show photomicrographs of that mineral, but I would argue that the quality bar that those images must surmount will have to be pretty high before we include them along with the images of their larger cousins. Or that there must be something really unusual or compelling about the images of these micro crystals if they are to be included.

Sometimes when we are selecting images for localities that we know little about, we need to keep in mind that the images of the specimens that we have to choose from in Mindat's image gallery may not be very good. In such cases we have to make a decision about whether to include the locality in our articles and some of the not very outstanding images. If I know that the locality has produced much better specimens that we have to show, I will usually include the locality and a picture or two and note in the text below the picture that there are better specimens and we will show them when we have better images available. Sometimes localities are suggested to us for inclusion and sometimes images are sent along with the suggested locality. Often the suggestions are really good. In such cases I don’t automatically include them in the article, but will try and engage the party that makes the suggestion in helping with the project by asking questions about the image(s) and or the locality. Usually if they know enough to suggest the locality, they have more than average, and sometimes expert knowledge of the locality. We should make every effort to tap into this knowledge and to capture it in our articles.

Is this the final word about what images should and should not be included? Almost certainly not. Undoubtedly this text will be modified in the future as the project develops.