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How to Contributehelp with photo mineral naming, I've read the manual!

25th Jun 2014 18:00 UTCBryan Lynch

Help, I'm trying to add photo to Brandberg Complex, Brandberg Area, Erongo Region or Namibia or http://www.mindat.org/loc-158053.html

The annoying system won't let me enter Quartz (Var: Amethyst) I can only enter quartz. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I've been working with it and just don't get it! What am I doing wrong?

25th Jun 2014 19:08 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager

Why do you want to add quartz to this locality ? Surely it's a sub-locality the quartz is from ? What is the photo ?

25th Jun 2014 19:19 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Did you try typing in just "amethyst" in the box with the "Find" button?

25th Jun 2014 21:14 UTCBryan Lynch

No, just amethyst worked! In a half of an hour, I didn't try that. Hmmmmm

Thank you

25th Jun 2014 21:23 UTCBryan Lynch

I know you guys have worked endlessly on this site. That said this is the most persnickety search engine I've dealt with anywhere.

25th Jun 2014 21:46 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager

But the specimen is not strictly amethyst but are amethyst phantoms so surely quartz will do at this locality.

25th Jun 2014 21:47 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

It's easy if the mineral is on the Quick Pick list. All you need is one click to enter the mineral.

25th Jun 2014 22:59 UTCBryan Lynch

it wasn't on the quick pick list.

And I disagree, calling that quartz would not be a good description.

But thanks David for the help.

25th Jun 2014 23:38 UTCBryan Lynch

28th Jun 2014 13:09 UTCBryan Lynch

Ok the actual location of the original "Brandberg Amethyst" is not even on the map. It is the dolomite directly under the west side of the mountain, but east of the road. Next time I am there, I will sneak in there and take pictures of the old beat up vugs of amethyst there, and give them to you. If you ask any miner at the operating mines they will happily tell you where they used to dig.

And until then I will call all of my rocks silicate.