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Identity HelpNeed Perfect Name for this quartz
16th Mar 2012 18:37 UTCSajjad Shakir
16th Mar 2012 18:49 UTCPeter Andresen Expert
16th Mar 2012 19:43 UTCSajjad Shakir
quartzpage.de/gro_text.html
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16th Mar 2012 20:04 UTCSajjad Shakir
16th Mar 2012 20:09 UTCTrevor Dart
16th Mar 2012 20:29 UTCSajjad Shakir
I just checked that and though i got some extra knowledge. but here i got it..
16th Mar 2012 21:09 UTCLiam Schofield
That's a nice name for any specimen of Quartz.
17th Mar 2012 09:12 UTCRock Currier Expert
17th Mar 2012 19:47 UTCSajjad Shakir
so its quartz for me.. only quartz..
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18th Mar 2012 04:08 UTCRock Currier Expert
The IMA, (International Mineralogical Association), with the approval of its various national mineralogical association members, has undertaken the thankless task of trying to ride heard on the can of worms that is often referred to a "mineralogical nomenclature". The general public couldn't care less about the pronouncements or the IMA and has been making up mineral names for centuries to describe all sorts or real and imagined minerals and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Thats the nature of language. About the best Mindat can do is to try and act as one of many mineral dictionaries to try to more or less standardize mineral names. The advantage that Mindat and other on line forums have is that we can discuss these terms and come to some kind of agreement on the meaning or meanings of various names. How wide spread does a new name have to be before it is worthy of inclusion here in mindat, or other dictionaries? Well, that depends on the editors and the publishers of the dictionary. Here on mindat, which is more or less oriented to the scientific method, we are fairly strict and a new metaphysical name has to be pretty wide spread before we will include it here and then the definition will usually be unflattering and try and relate it back to a known and accepted IMA name. The commercial market place is always trying to steal names with a "high value" like diamond to make up names that will hopefully add value to their goods. Herkimer Diamonds anyone?(Quartz). But Herkimer Diamonds is still a usefully name that mineral collectors can use and we all know exactly what kind of quartz it refers to. There are countless other similar examples.
18th Mar 2012 16:25 UTCSajjad Shakir
know i am laughing at my self that i believe that person from who i buy ...
thanks sir thank you so so much for very sincere msg...thats why i like mindat...
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