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Improving Mindat.orgSpelling and Grammar Errors on Mindat
26th Jan 2012 15:08 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Please DO NOT use this thread to post errors related to TECHNICAL or NUMERICAL DATA (e.g. crystallography etc.)
I will do my best to fix anything that is mentioned here as soon as possible.
Vik
26th Jan 2012 16:23 UTCLászló Horváth Manager
I am not sure if you have authority to correct mineral names, but remondite-(Ce) and -(La) should be changed to rémondite-(Ce) and -(La).
László
26th Jan 2012 21:57 UTCNorman King 🌟 Expert
Locality designation: Amerbach valley, Felben valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria
(mindat.org/loc-53385)–both occurrences of “valley” should be capitalized.
Ulexite page:
In Crystallography of Ulexite, Morphology: The second sentence contains the misspelled word “randoly” that should be “randomly.”
Clinozoisite page:
The word “volume” is misspelled in this Reference: “Holland, T.J.B., Redfern, S.A.T., and Pawley, A.R. (1996), Vlume behavior of hydrous minerals at high pressure and temperature: II. Compressibilities of lawsonite, zoisite, clinozoisite and epidote. American Mineralogist: 81: 341-348.”
Paranatrolite page:
Note this Reference: “Khomyakov, A.P., G.Y. Cherepivskaya, and M.G. Mikheeva (1986): First paranatrolite ¯nds in the USSR. Doklady Acad. Nauk SSSR, 288, 214-217 (in Russian).”
“¯nds” is a typo, but I don’t know what it is supposed to be.
Rutile page:
(This is in the crystallography section, but it simply relates to a word choice.) In Crystallography of Rutile, Twinning: “On {011} common. Often genticulated; also contact twins of very varied habit.”
The unfortunate choice of words here is “genticulated” for bent. It should be “geniculated,” which unequivocally means "bent." Genticulated has come to mean that one talks to himself or herself, although it may still be used as an alternative form for geniculate in anatomy. I'd change it!:-D
27th Jan 2012 16:37 UTCLászló Horváth Manager
Paranatrolite: the partially missing word should be finds
27th Jan 2012 18:56 UTCDennis Tryon
You could continue this into the individual posts. You would find people who can't even consistently spell their own name.
Dennis
27th Jan 2012 22:42 UTCToby Billing
I for one assume if there is poor spelling and sloppy sentences in a document (not talking Mindat here by the way, just general) that the author is lazy and therefore tend to disregard it, spelling is important, more so in science!
28th Jan 2012 00:36 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager
There is no need for disparaging comments for those who give up time to help correct the database.
Vik has just started up a 'good cause' here & needs encouragement & thanks goes out to anyone prepared to help.
(tu)
28th Jan 2012 01:46 UTCCraig Mercer
Regards,
Criag
Cirag
Craig....got it
28th Jan 2012 05:37 UTCNorman King 🌟 Expert
I presume you saw the information about the paranatrolite reference provided by Laszlo (Thanks, Laszlo!).
New stuff:
Galena page:
This sentence appears in the introductory comments: “Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead. Worked for its lead content as early as 3000 BC, it is found in ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, fahlore etc., skarns, and in sedimentary rocks as beds or impregnations.
OK, first, there should be a comma after “fahlore.” Second, I must confess that I had never heard of “fahlore” until I read this page. Why not say “tennantite-tetrahedrite,” a term (synonym of fahlore) that 99% of us would know? Next, there is no such thing as a “bed” of galena. “Beds” refer only to material deposited as a result of sedimentary processes. A solid mass of galena may replace limestone, however, but that is a hydrothermal event, not a sedimentary event. Finally, “impregnation” is meaningless as a geological term.
I suggest rewording the pertinent sentence thus: “Worked for its lead content as early as 3000 BC, it is found in ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and tennantite-tetrahedrite, etc., and in skarns, as well as in sedimentary rocks where it may replace carbonate beds or be deposited in pore spaces.
Cuprite page:
This appears in Physical Properties of Cuprite, Colour: “Dark red to conchineal red, . . . " Replace “conchineal” with “cochineal.”
Ferrohornblende page:
This reference is cited: “Barnes, V.E. (1930) hanges in hornblende at about 800°. American Mineralogist: 15: 393-417.” The first word of the title should be “Changes.”
Schorl page:
This reference is cited: “Aurisicchio, C., Ottolini, L., and Pezzotta, F. (1999): Electron- and on-microprobe analyses, and genetic interferences of tourmalines of the foitite-schorl solid solution, Elba Island (Italy). Eurpean Journal of Mineralogy: 11, 217-225.” The title should be “Electron- and ion-microprobe analyses . . . .“
Antigorite page:
This appears in the introduction: “The type material was collected from outcrops of the Geisspfad serpentinite, at the border between Switzerland and Italy. It is not clear, in which country the material was sampled.” In the second sentence, delete the comma after “clear.” I suggest rewording those sentences thus: “The type material was collected near the border between Switzerland and Italy from outcrops of the Geisspfad serpentinite. It is not clear in which country the material was obtained.”
28th Jan 2012 12:42 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Vik
1st Feb 2012 19:24 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
Just to tell the POTD have a misspelling, it's the Col des BagEnelles and not BagAnelles.
I hope this helps.
Take care and best regards.
Paul.
12th Feb 2012 01:21 UTCJason Evans
12th Feb 2012 12:52 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
12th Feb 2012 22:03 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Jason was referring to this: http://www.mindat.org/min-40460.html
Before i fixed it, it was spelled Irgizite (without the H).
I also added the latitude & longitude for the crater.
Vik
15th Feb 2012 00:47 UTCJason Evans
15th Feb 2012 03:09 UTCNorman King 🌟 Expert
15th Feb 2012 07:18 UTCDon Windeler
There is a rampant misuse of the term "comprise", which (on the whole) is treated better in MinDat than most places.
Good example : "The granite from Monkeyfart Knob comprises quartz, muscovite, and potassium feldspar."
Bad example: "The granite from Monkeyfart Knob is comprised of quartz, muscovite, and potassium feldspar."
The general usage I have always hewed to is as follows:
Rock A comprises minerals X, Y, and Z.
Rock A consists of minerals X, Y, and Z.
Rock A is composed of minerals X, Y, and Z.
To keep the sedimentologists happy, "Formation A comprises units X, Y, and Z."
There is at least one mineral dealer I rather (otherwise) like to whom I have pointed this out but consistently uses this in their descriptions. Argh.
One could argue that "OK, but this has become common usage in English." Bullpuckey. That's lazy -- sort of like saying that everyone screws it up, so we might as well give up and call it good. As in "The data is in favor of this proposition". No, the data are in favor. (I continue to wage guerrilla warfare against this usage by changing it and accepting my own changes in documents I send to others when I think it will make a difference.)
Yes, I probably have better things to do with my life, but every cause needs a champion.
Cheers,
D.
15th Feb 2012 11:39 UTCJason Evans
15th Feb 2012 12:28 UTCNorman King 🌟 Expert
And thank you for "data are" and "datum is." That one is even more (just as) hopeless.
* * * *
EDIT (and I bet someone out there already caught this one):
"Just as hopeless" is wrong. You are either hopeless or you have hope, so I should have written: "That one is even more (also) hopeless." It's like either being either alive or dead. There's no such thing as "slightly dead." Isn't language fun?
17th Feb 2012 03:34 UTCCraig Mercer
17th Feb 2012 14:41 UTCSteven Kittleson
Shouldn't that be "Spelling and Grammatical Errors on Mindat"...LOL. I couldn't resist. To be honest, I'm a frequent offender also, especially in punctuation.
Steve
To absent friends...in memory...still bright.
17th Feb 2012 17:03 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
this issue might be debatable. As I understand it, there are 2 possible interpretations:
1: "Spelling", "Grammar" and "Errors" are all nouns.
2: "Spelling" and "Grammar/Grammatical" are adjectives, while "Errors" is a noun.
English is not my mother tongue (Flemish/Dutch) is, so forgive me for not remembering all of its linguistic peculiarities.
In a distant past (2003) I graduated in multilingual translation (Dutch, English, French and German), and have been using all of these languages on a daily basis, so I like to think I do catch the most obvious errors here on Mindat (when I feel like looking for them that is...).
Keep the errors coming (or rather, try not to make any more :-p), I will correct them whenever I can...
Vik
17th Feb 2012 22:20 UTCNorman King 🌟 Expert
There are no rules for compound nouns. Some are normally spelled as a single word, such as housekeeper. Others are normally hyphenated, such as house-fly. Still others are two separate words, such as house detective. In these cases, however, the alternate spellings are usually acceptable. There are no general rules. You just have to know what the preferred form is. But a few compound nouns must be hyphenated, such as paper-clip, to distinguish it from paper clip, which is a clip made of paper. There are some compound nouns used in mineralogy. “Streak test” is one. In this case, it is probably clear to everyone that it isn’t spelled “streak-test” or “streaktest.”
We could say “spelling errors and grammatical errors on mindat.” Compound nouns have to stay together, so neither “spelling and grammar errors on mindat” nor “spelling and grammatical errors on mindat” is correct.
However, to be more elegant, we might say “errors in spelling and grammar on mindat.” That avoids the issue altogether, so that is the rule I would follow.
Is this silly season, or what? (silly season n: a period marked by frivolous, outlandish, or illogical activity or behavior)
17th Feb 2012 23:36 UTCMark & Linda Mahlum
27th Feb 2012 09:38 UTCOlav Revheim Manager
Olav
27th Feb 2012 09:51 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
I fixed the formula for Ferronybøite (the formula for Ferric-Ferronybøite is left untouched, is this one correct or not?)
Vik
27th Feb 2012 10:46 UTCAmir C. Akhavan Expert
This mineral should almost explode when you touch it :-D
Probably just 22 oxygen atoms missing.
27th Feb 2012 10:49 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
29th Feb 2012 16:04 UTCJeff Weissman Expert
29th Feb 2012 22:59 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Vik
10th Apr 2012 15:12 UTCHenry Minot 🌟 Expert
"Wiscassett, Lincoln County, Maine, USA"
The correct spelling is" Wiscasset" (one t at the end, not two).
Henry Minot
Seems to have been fixed - Thanks!
17th Apr 2012 16:22 UTCAndrea Sansoni
17th Apr 2012 16:48 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
I hope this helps.
Paul.
17th Apr 2012 22:26 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Col des Bagenelles has apparently already been fixed (see http://www.mindat.org/loc-230935.html).
Vik
29th Jan 2014 22:36 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
The first name in the reference should be Schlüter, not Schulter.
And "Neues Jahrbuch für ...
29th Jan 2014 23:31 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
Thank you! Fixed.
Chet Lemanski
2nd Sep 2014 13:47 UTCJyrki Autio Expert
Finnish capital shoud be Helsinki.
2nd Sep 2014 14:31 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
3rd Sep 2014 14:18 UTCIvan Vighetto
3rd Sep 2014 20:32 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager
3rd Sep 2014 22:33 UTCJason Evans
4th Nov 2014 12:07 UTCJay I. G. Roland
Just thought I would mention it in case someone might make the corrections.
Regards,
Jay.
4th Nov 2014 12:35 UTCErik Vercammen Expert
From a mineralogical point of view, the paragenesis from the whole Ana Mine area (La Cabaña, El Frondil, El Cueto L’Aspa and la Busteriza) is composed of: Fluorite, baryte, quartz, calcite as well as highly localized carbonates such as azurite and malachite, oxides such as goethite, sulfides such as üyrite and some others, much more scarce, like cinnabar and tetrahedrite.
4th Nov 2014 16:37 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager
Thanks Eric fixed
4th Nov 2014 18:21 UTCDon Windeler
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> I never did find out where Monkeyfart Knob is :-(
Sorry, Jason, as far as I know that locality exists only in the dusty and convoluted recesses of my skull. Plenty of rocks there, none worth collecting. I think a glass of wine might have been involved during the original writeup.
In a coincidence apropos of nothing, this thread popped up again today just after I finished a note to a colleague who was musing about "data is" vs. "data are". All good fun.
Cheers,
D.
4th Nov 2014 18:26 UTCJay I. G. Roland
Spin away Arthur, spin away!
Regards,
Jay.
11th Nov 2014 19:01 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
Definately "data are." (datum is)
Chet
11th Nov 2014 21:36 UTCBOB HARMAN
11th Nov 2014 22:13 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
It missed something ;-)
EDIT: Corrected a misprint of my own... ("someting")
11th Nov 2014 22:23 UTCBOB HARMAN
According to Webster, the correct spelling seems to be "throughout" or 'through-out". CHEERS……BOB
14th Dec 2014 03:14 UTCJohn Wilda (2)
14th Dec 2014 04:44 UTCWayne Corwin
17th Dec 2014 06:33 UTCRock Currier Expert
17th Dec 2014 07:49 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
The number of correct words made bad would probably exceed the number of errors made good.
17th Dec 2014 12:34 UTCPeter Nancarrow 🌟 Expert
Modern software is more context sensitive, I know, but in the earlier days of PC spell checking, where a word would only be flagged up if it wasn't in the custom dictionary, on several occasions, automatic "corrections" changed my originally intended terminology for the worse. I recall examples such as "birefringent" being substituted for "birefringence", and "refraction" for "diffraction", which unfortunately, due to time pressures on the day, slipped past my proof reading and ended up in signed reports!
In similar circumstances, one of my former colleagues also suffered the embarassment of sending out a letter to an important customer, which unfortunately began "Dead Sir, . . ." !
Pete N.
17th Dec 2014 13:18 UTCRobert Rothenberg
Bob
22nd Dec 2014 02:49 UTCRock Currier Expert
Certainly an program that would automatically correct any misspelled words it thought it had found would be disastrous. But a program that would mark questionable words for an editor and make suggestions for correct spelling and offer a choice and alternative actions like just ignoring the questionable spelling, or placing it in a list of valid spellings etc before going on to the next one would, I think be very helpful. The same list of possible actions should also include a choice to access the dictionary and edit those entries would be very desirable.
21st Apr 2015 12:27 UTCErik Vercammen Expert
21st Apr 2015 12:52 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
Fixed.
21st Apr 2015 13:34 UTCFred E. Davis
21st Apr 2015 15:10 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager
http://www.mindat.org/min-4478.html
http://www.mindat.org/min-31.html
21st Apr 2015 16:49 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
21st Apr 2015 16:58 UTCTimothy Greenland
Cheers
Tim
PS Any plans to visit us in Lyon yet (perhaps for the MineraLyon show???)
T
21st Apr 2015 20:06 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager
Thanks Tim. I'll take you up on your kind invite, but not sure when.
22nd Apr 2015 13:07 UTCFred E. Davis
I was referring to this page: http://www.mindat.org/min-4471.html . This is also where the images and text don't agree. See image below for location of spelling issue:
Best regards,
Fred
22nd Apr 2015 14:25 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
19th Nov 2015 13:30 UTCJason Evans
19th Nov 2015 14:34 UTCBob Harman
Personally, I think that infrequent postings are so bad as to diminish the "professionalism aspect" of the Mindat website. Ideally I would like to see gentle reminders sent to these folks suggesting they preview and correct their future postings. CHEERS.....BOB
19th Nov 2015 14:38 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
11th Jan 2016 02:08 UTCLeor Goldberg
Collection is spelled incorrectly and stalagtitic isn't a word. As a sidenote, I don't believe the goethite is stalactic in habit -- though I will post that in the appropriate forum.
11th Jan 2016 02:20 UTCLeor Goldberg
11th Jan 2016 02:35 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
5th Apr 2016 10:31 UTCRiccardo Modanesi
Then... color or colour? Theatre or theater? Program or programme? Gemologist or gemmologist?
What is more important is... we all understand one another when we write a message or an article!
Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.:)-D
5th Apr 2016 13:19 UTCPaul De Bondt Manager
You are probably right that " stalagtitic " is not the good word. Always happy to improve my English, which is not my native language.
Here you find 2 images of the side of the specimen. How would you describe the goethite, please ?
Thank you in advance.
Cheers from Belgium.
Paul.
5th Apr 2016 15:37 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
6th Apr 2016 00:41 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
6th Apr 2016 03:36 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
I would have used the term columnar.
Cheers
Keith
6th Apr 2016 04:05 UTCJake Harper Expert
6th Apr 2016 08:08 UTCPeter Nancarrow 🌟 Expert
On that rationale, the goethite specimen shown above is almost certainly stalctitic, not stalagmitic, (with the top to the left in the photos).
Pete N
6th Apr 2016 09:43 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalactite
6th Apr 2016 12:33 UTCRonnie Van Dommelen 🌟 Manager
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stalagmite
18th Jul 2016 12:43 UTCDon Swenson
Alpha particles (a helium nuclei He2+ captures electrons when stopped by the surrounding rock to become helium.
Captures should be changed to capture.
Also, the mineral discoverer section doesn't list who discovered it!
Overall this thread is excellent; however, everybody and his uncle knows that helium is an unreactive "noble" gas. I'm quite confident very few people have bothered to view the helium portion. Perhaps other unlikely portions could use a review.
18th Jul 2016 16:10 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager
19th Jul 2016 02:25 UTCDoug Daniels
16th Jan 2017 09:41 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
First line in text field: "Cayalsilite-1O and Cayalsilite-(Y)-1M" should be "cayalsite-(Y)-1O and cayalsite-(Y)-1M"
16th Jan 2017 11:16 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
16th Jan 2017 20:34 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
17th Jan 2017 15:31 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
(Capitalization: this is inconsistent on Mindat and I usually don't bother to change it).
17th Jan 2017 16:42 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
Colour: colourless to faint pink
Name: ...Y(ttrium)Al(uminium)Si(licon)
18th Jan 2017 17:23 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
Name fixed.
18th Jan 2017 20:46 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
> I think, "faintly pink" is grammatically correct.
Yes, you're right. My point was that pink doesn't show. I now realize that the text field for "Colour" is too small, hence the truncated text...
19th Jan 2017 10:02 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
We had complained about this issue before, but without success.
27th May 2017 17:48 UTCJeffrey Shallit
http://webmin.mindat.org/help/Luminescence.shtml ?
e.g.,
"Cathodolumiescence" -> "Cathodoluminescence"
"principle hazard" -> "principal hazard"
27th May 2017 19:07 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
"Mail, Comments, Report Errors to dbarthelmy@webmineral.com" (at bottom of page)
Thanks.
4th Jun 2017 01:51 UTCJeffrey Shallit
https://www.mindat.org/locentry-363674.html
4th Jun 2017 14:47 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
18th Oct 2017 16:29 UTCJeffrey Shallit
18th Oct 2017 16:29 UTCJeffrey Shallit
https://www.mindat.org/locentry-363674.html
18th Oct 2017 18:17 UTCRonnie Van Dommelen 🌟 Manager
Can you be more specific? I'm confused because it looks fine to me. What am I missing?
18th Oct 2017 19:48 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
This seems to have been fixed now :-)
18th Oct 2017 22:04 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Thank you Vic and I thought Jeffrey was in errror!!
Glad the problem is now fixed - at least for this rrrrrrrrr. :-)
Cheers
19th Oct 2017 00:39 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
30th Oct 2017 03:23 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
This is a Russian mineral named after the locality. Diacritical signs don't using in Russian language as they are in French or Czech. We have two different letters in alphabet - E/e (sounds as "e") and Ё/ё (sounds as "yo").
I haven't ideas at all, how the word Kësterite should to be pronounced.
Lokality Kester (Кестёр in Russian) pronounsed as "Kestyor", and mineral named after it must to be pronounced as "kestyorit".
The letter "ë" must to be eliminated from Kësterite word. >:-( The mineral must be named as it was in original paper - Kesterite.
30th Oct 2017 06:53 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
30th Oct 2017 12:12 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
Bonshtedt-Kupletskaya E M (1958) New Minerals. Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 87, 76
http://rruff.info/rruff_1.0/uploads/Zapiski_%20Vsesoiuznogo_%20mineralogicheskogo_obshchestva_%2087_1958_76.pdf
for pronunciation:
http://rruff.info/rruff_1.0/uploads/AM43_1219.pdf
3rd Dec 2017 18:36 UTCBernhardt Saini-Eidukat
On https://www.mindat.org/min-1933.html (hotsonite)
the reference should read
Beukes et al. (1984): Hotsonite, a...
3rd Dec 2017 18:48 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
25th Feb 2018 20:42 UTCGregg Little 🌟
25th Feb 2018 20:48 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
28th Mar 2018 23:10 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
The R and S in "Föreningens" are omitted.
It often spells "Föeningen" or "Föeningens" instead of "Föreningens".
Is there a way to correct this site-wide?
Vik
29th Mar 2018 09:19 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
18th Apr 2018 02:00 UTCRonnie Van Dommelen 🌟 Manager
22nd Apr 2018 12:31 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Thanks Ronnie
27th Apr 2018 14:33 UTCKevin Hean
What do my fellow rockhounds do......
or ,
What does my fellow rockhound do....
27th Apr 2018 17:30 UTCDon Saathoff Expert
Please remember that MANY Mindaters are not native English speakers but still get the ideas across!
27th Apr 2018 20:00 UTCKevin Hean
29th Apr 2018 20:09 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
> Is there a way to correct this site-wide?
Now done.
2nd May 2018 19:37 UTCGregg Little 🌟
4th May 2018 03:19 UTCDonald B Peck Expert
thanks for the heads up. That was indeed a mistake.
Don
25th May 2018 22:57 UTCMike Jensen
Named in 1982 by V. A. Kovalenka, V. S. Malov, T. L. Evstigneeva, and L. S. Vyals in honor of Günter Harald Moh (1929–1934), University of Heidelberg, Germany, who first synthesised the compound and had done numerous studies on sulphide systems.
The article also has his photo which should also be added to the page.
If you are really ambitious some of the information in the article could be added to his bio.
http://www.mineralogia.pl/texts.html
http://www.mineralogia.pl/PDFy/8%20-%20Vol.24,%20No1-2,%201993.pdf
https://www.mindat.org/min-2741.html
Mike
9th Jun 2018 13:44 UTCOwen Missen
Aguilarite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-59.html ) - the solid solution descriptions in the 'About Aguilarite' section should have subscripts for the stoichiometric ratios of elements.
Telargpalite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-3903.html ) - in the Name section, 'Greek' is misspelled as 'grek'.
9th Jun 2018 15:27 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
Mike: someone had fixed mohite in the meantime.
11th Jun 2018 17:09 UTCMike Jensen
There is an image of him in the pdf article that could be shown in his bio. Though it is not very sharp. If anyone knows someone with the Mineralogical Society of Poland they might be able to find a better photo of him.
Mike Jensen
2nd Oct 2018 14:30 UTCOwen Missen
Blue Bell Mine page ( https://www.mindat.org/loc-144880.html ), third picture caption needs a space so that it reads ‘site 2A’.
Timroseite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-39836.html ), the picture caption should be ‘Tim Rose a’.
Tlapallite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-3983.html ), in the Name section the Nahua word the mineral is named after should be ‘tlapalli’.
Yecoraite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-4358.html ) - in the Other Information section, ‘10’ is currently written using an l as ‘l0’, and HNO3 should have a subscript.
2nd Oct 2018 21:59 UTCMarek Chorazewicz
1) Both timroseite and paratimroseite pictures should have Tim's name corrected. Currently they say "Tim Rose a" and "Tim Rose b", but I assure you both Tims are the same person, even if their smiles differ a little bit ;-)
The full name should say "Timothy P. Rose" or "Timothy (Tim) P. Rose" -- the second variant is how Tony christened Tim in the timroseite article. Unless Tim tells us otherwise of course...
2) Re Blue Bell sites: many people tend to mislabel them due to slight confusion with the San Bernardino Museum write up which used "2" prefix to indicate Blue Bell mine, earlier publication used prefix 1 for Mohawk mine. So, 2A really means Blue Bell mine site A comprised of many smaller sites and adits. Most famous are A1 adit and A2 stope, also called "Glory Hole". So, on the picture in question it should actually say "site A2".
Also, the B adit should not be called Atkinson Tunnel as Atkinson was just a claim jumper for a few years on the mountain in the middle of the XX century. The rest of the famous sites are called C adit, D area, and E pit. There are many more small sites around, some have separate designations, some don't.
Best Regards,
MarekC
2nd Oct 2018 22:03 UTCMarek Chorazewicz
10th Oct 2018 04:01 UTCOwen Missen
Looks like most of the changes Marek and I have suggested have now been made, thank you to those who made the edits.
Remaining edits required:
The timroseite page has had the 'a' removed but the name is still incorrectly written as 'Time Rose'.
As Marek suggests, Tim's full name may be more appropriate, but at any rate 'Time' should definitely be corrected.
Yecoraite - the 3 in HNO3 isn't subscripted, though this is not an essential update.
10th Oct 2018 08:19 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager
12th Oct 2018 00:02 UTCOwen Missen
And while I'm at it, another edit:
Rucklidgeite page, https://www.mindat.org/min-3474.html :
In the last sentence in 'About Rucklidgeite', the mineral name is twice (!) spelt incorrectly without the d.
12th Oct 2018 05:27 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Rucklidgeite page: name corrected twice.
14th Oct 2018 10:04 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
Interestingly, the English translation of the Russian abstract for formicaite uses "β-calcium formiate" in the first sentence and "β-calcium formate" in the second-to-last sentence, so even the translators couldn't make up their mind. Nonetheless, if you search for "formiate" in Wikipedia (English), it redirects to "formate".
http://www.minsoc.ru/FilesBase/128205e.pdf
16th Oct 2018 05:39 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Vik
25th Dec 2018 07:45 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
You can set it to either British or American spelling.
It will let you know which words are spelled incorrectly.
Words it doesn't recognize can be added to a personal dictionary.
I've been using it for quite some time now and I must say, it works very well.
Vik
14th Jan 2019 00:54 UTCRonnie Van Dommelen 🌟 Manager
https://www.mindat.org/glossary/qapf_diagram
The following typos should be fixed:
abreviation -> abbreviation
grained(plutonic) -> grained (plutonic)
graned -> grained
14th Jan 2019 06:08 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
14th Jan 2019 09:19 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
In the introductory section text, SO^4 should be replaced with SO4
Additionally, it may or may not be of some usefulness to include the formal valences associated with the various S species described in the section. Unfortunately, it may not always be clear exactly what those valences are (e.g., S3 could be thiozonide, S3-, or trisulfide, S32-, or both). A more recent (2012) reference on S speciation in lazurite may also be worthwhile to add to the reference list:
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/eurjmin/article-abstract/24/1/133/69613/sulphur-speciation-in-lazurite-type-minerals-na-ca?redirectedFrom=fulltext
16th Jan 2019 00:30 UTCRonnie Van Dommelen 🌟 Manager
https://www.mindat.org/min-6810.html
but I don't have the time to check at the moment. Regardless, the current link gives an error.
16th Jan 2019 07:20 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
18th Jan 2019 18:56 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
Crystallography of Nuragheite - Morphology: "crystalss"
https://www.mindat.org/min-694.html
Crystallography of Blatterite - Morphology: "striated along the lengtht"
The formula of blatterite is missing a "3" after Sb5+, so is the reference (Cooper...)
18th Jan 2019 19:47 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
18th Jan 2019 21:49 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Crystallography of Blatterite - Morphology: "striated along the lengtht" .... Fixed
Another one in the Cooper reference for blatterite: Nn in the formula should be Mn .... Fixed
19th Jan 2019 23:38 UTCTomas Husdal Expert
20th Jan 2019 11:16 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
23rd Jan 2019 02:44 UTCRonnie Van Dommelen 🌟 Manager
23rd Jan 2019 03:34 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
I popped the bubble ((-:)
31st Jan 2019 22:47 UTCOwen Missen
1. Also on the lazurite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-2357.html ) has a couple more small errors:
a. ‘About Lazurite’, sixth paragraph: Missing space between S4,SO3
b. ‘Classification of Lazurite’, ‘Approval History’: no chemical subscripts in the formulae given in this section
2. Chromschieffelinite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-41959.html ) in the Name section: ‘Chrome’ should really be chromium (no capitals), or Cr6+. Chrome is an alloy.
3. Kostovite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-2260.html ) in ‘About Kostovite’ section: specific gravity has a needless 0 in 07.94.
4. Magnolite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-2542.html ) in ‘About Magnolite’ section: should be ‘Genth’ not ‘Genthite’.
5. Millsite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-46965.html ) has several small errors:
a. In 'About millsite' a space is missing in 'typelocality'.
b. In ‘Type occurrence of millsite’, the sentence ends abruptly with ‘and the Museu’. This is probably a typo unless there is missing detail.
c. There is also an extraneous bracket in the ‘X-ray powder diffraction’ section.
6. Mcalpineite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-7173.html ) should have subscripts in the two iterations of the bixbyite formulae in the ‘About mcalpineite’ section.
7. Ankangite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-238.html ) should have a subscript for the 2 in H2O in the ‘About ankangite’ section.
8. Herbertsmithite page ( https://www.mindat.org/min-26600.html ). Final sentence should read ‘named’ not ‘name’.
1st Feb 2019 07:04 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
5b) I did not find a reference that identified an additional location housing co-type material.
8) Someone else apparently had already fixed this.
1st Feb 2019 08:03 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Yes I had fixed Millsite (5b) and Herbertsmithite (8) - don't know what happened to my earlier message - perhaps I didn't hit "post"?
Cheers
1st Feb 2019 15:55 UTCOwen Missen
5th Feb 2019 21:09 UTCOwen Missen
As far as I can tell from online searching, the one 'm' version is correct, meaning the picture caption needs editing.
5th Feb 2019 21:24 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
18th Feb 2019 17:12 UTCOwen Missen
There is also an extra space after 'Waupaca'.
19th Feb 2019 05:27 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
21st Feb 2019 16:43 UTCOwen Missen
Next batch of small corrections:
1. Tolbachik Volcano page: (https://www.mindat.org/loc-5602.html). Two of the three pictures shown on the title page have 'Volbachik' rather than 'Tolbachik'. The v in volcano is also not capitalised in the page title but is capitalised in most of the pictures which could perhaps be edited for consistency.
2. Kamchatkite page: (https://www.mindat.org/min-2146.html). In 'about kamchatkite', 'and' is mistyped as 'an'.
3. Lammerite-beta page (https://www.mindat.org/min-29291.html). Reference list has fumaroles and Tolbachik misspelled.
4. Cu-Te mineralisation in Wallonia page: (https://www.mindat.org/loc-296398.html), LOcated has an extraneous capital O.
21st Feb 2019 21:48 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
Vik
23rd Feb 2019 20:40 UTCOwen Missen
24th Feb 2019 17:43 UTCDon Windeler
Cheers,
D.
24th Feb 2019 19:01 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
27th Feb 2019 21:43 UTCJerry Cone 🌟 Expert
27th Feb 2019 22:03 UTCVik Vanrusselt Expert
fixed "dull"
Vik
26th Mar 2019 21:31 UTCOwen Missen
Chanabayaite (https://www.mindat.org/min-43945.html). 'Name after the typelocality.' missing a space. Formula of the precursor lacks subscripts and has an overly large dot for hydration.
Gråurdfjellet (https://www.mindat.org/loc-11702.html) missing a comma between 'monazite,uraninite'.
Camérolaite (https://www.mindat.org/min-872.html) has two errors: the name of Camérola himself is missing the acute accent; the originally reported formula has the hydration dot (should be ·) as a fullstop.
26th Mar 2019 22:38 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
all fixed (including catching an additional missing é within the body of the text for camérolaite).
27th Mar 2019 20:28 UTCOwen Missen
18th Apr 2019 02:57 UTCOwen Missen
Scrutinyite (https://www.mindat.org/min-3598.html) - extra brackets at bottom of PXRD section can be removed.
Dravertite (https://www.mindat.org/min-46608.html) - missing superscript in cm2 then an unnecessary '-' in 1-cm, in the first sentence of 'Type Occurrence' section.
18th Apr 2019 03:30 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
both fixed
29th Apr 2019 06:44 UTCOwen Missen
Latest batch:
Ferrierite page (https://www.mindat.org/min-1492.html) - the NH4 lacks a subscript in the final sentence of "About".
Kojonenite page (https://www.mindat.org/min-46081.html) - the numbers in the 0.3 ≤ x ≤ 0.8 appear to be incorrectly entered as subscripts.
29th Apr 2019 10:34 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
both fixed.
28th May 2019 06:28 UTCOwen Missen
Wiklundite page (https://www.mindat.org/min-46820.html) - in the first row of the structure description, the 4 of SiO4 is not in a subscript.
Chegemite series (https://www.mindat.org/min-46188.html) - the 2 in the M(OH,F)2 formula, in 'about chegemite series' is also not in a subscript.
28th May 2019 07:17 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
both fixed.
28th May 2019 11:05 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
Please be careful. You have not edited the formula correctly. You must not use HTML subscript and superscript codes to enter a formula, they must be entered in the way that is described at the top of the edit page, with a ^ before subscript elements and a # surrounding superscript elements.
So magnetite is
Fe#2+#Fe#3+#^2O^4
If it's not done right there are various other processes including future formula search that will fail.
28th May 2019 11:07 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
28th May 2019 11:09 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
I know I've complained about this kind of thing for a long time and no-one else in the mineralogical world seems to be that bothered by it, but WHAT do we do in cases like this?
As scientists we need to be precise in what we describe, not sloppy like this!
28th May 2019 11:13 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
(OH / F)
(OH - F)
(OH and/or F)
but it can't be (OH,F) because that implies OH is always dominant over F.
How should we write this?
The only other option is to change (OH,F) to Z and have Z = OH and/or F in the formula notes.
28th May 2019 11:51 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
28th May 2019 11:56 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
I don't think it was me. The ^ and #2+# type codes only work in some of the cells (for example, in the formula cell, where the Chegemite Group formula is given as Ca^2^nSi^nO^4^n.Ca(OH,F)^2). I didn't touch that. The changes I made for both minerals were in the General Description box, which seems to require HTML code (or at least there's still a lot of code there that I didn't add or touch):
When I've used the ^ and #1-# type code in this cell type, they didn't work. The only change I made for this mineral was what Owen indicated... on the fourth line in the illustration I included, for the original M(OH,F)2 I added the HTML code around the 2.
Similarly for wiklundite, the only change I made was what Owen indicated, and is shown on the attached figure (and note all the other HTML code already there):
28th May 2019 12:23 UTCGerhard Niklasch Expert
See the manual.
Cheers, Gerhard
28th May 2019 12:37 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
28th May 2019 13:18 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
In plain text fields you can use <sub> or <f> as you prefer as that's not critical.
28th May 2019 13:19 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
If no-one has a better idea I'll change it to (OH/F)
28th May 2019 14:30 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
3rd Jun 2019 04:21 UTCOwen Missen
Didn't expect those two would lead to further discussion, but good to clear some things up!
Seems that in general superscripts and subscripts haven't always been entered according to the Mindat manual - definitely something to be aware of.
The (OH,F) and equivalent problems are certainly tricky. I like Uwe's suggestion at the bottom best, though should it be 'and/or' not just 'or'? I think the use of 'or' is standard though, and no mineralogist is going to assume that 'or' means 'all OH' or 'all F'.
The chegemite formula remains with a comma in several instances on the page - depending what is decided. I don't know how many other minerals/groups have similar issues.
The comma notation also runs into some problems when running chemical searches - depending on how the formula is recorded on Mindat.
If you are not interested in minor components, the second or third element in a bracket will come up regardless, even if it is only present in minor amounts. However, if one is interested in minor components, formulae do not always include minor components in brackets. But that is probably a discussion for another day on a different Mindat forum, and a careful search should not run into problems!
11th Jun 2019 07:51 UTCDuncan Miller
11th Jun 2019 08:01 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
23rd Jun 2019 17:49 UTCJim Daly
See official Pennsylvania road map for confirmation.
23rd Jun 2019 20:26 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
4th Aug 2019 15:17 UTCOwen Missen
Note that the formula for laitakarite on its own page is Bi4Se2S - so should this be the formula in the sentence on the ikunolite page as well?
4th Aug 2019 17:06 UTCKeith Wood
5th Aug 2019 03:40 UTCOwen Missen
5th Aug 2019 10:04 UTCPeter Nancarrow 🌟 Expert
Pete N.
10th Aug 2019 09:44 UTCOwen Missen
1. on the utahite page, https://www.mindat.org/min-7348.html , next to Empire Mine, Arizona, is a sentence which includes an incorrect spelling of 'Malcolm'. Should be corrected to this from 'Malcomb'.
2. on the carbonatecyanotrichite page, https://www.mindat.org/min-894.html , in the About section there is a link to the mineral camérolaite. However, the accent on the e is missing.
10th Aug 2019 11:45 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
also subscripted laitakarite formula on ikunolite page, but didn't change the format of the formula because the IMA version still includes the parentheses.
6th Mar 2020 19:50 UTCOwen Missen
3. On the chenite page, in 'Name' ( https://www.mindat.org/min-987.html ), CAnada should be changed to Canada.
4. On the mutinaite page (https://www.mindat.org/min-7184.html) I noticed that there are some errors in the zeolite group table.
These may be more difficult to change than simply editing a word.
NB These errors appear to persist on the pages for the other zeolite group minerals, though not all zeolite group minerals have the Relationship of [Insert name here] to other Species - others have a list of related minerals by Nickel-Strunz. So to make this all consistent would be a lot of work. In the meantime, hopefully these five things can be cleaned up:
a) Clinoptilolite - the link to the rruff page is cut off.
b) Faujasite has no information. Like the old name gmelinite, faujasite needs a comment. The faujasite page lists Faujasite-Ca, Faujasite-Mg, Faujasite-Na as synonyms of faujasite, but only faujasite-Ca is in the table (missing Faujasite-Mg and Faujasite-Na?)
c) Heulandite - same issue as clinoptilolite.
d) Phillipsite just has a link to the zeolite group page - a comment on the name might be helpful.
e) The note on the stilbite subgroup has an unfinished ellipsis.
Thanks!
6th Mar 2020 23:24 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
fixed #4a
fixed #4c
regarding #4e, I'm not sure that's an error... I think the ellipses just indicate that there's more content than will fit into this cell.
regarding the main #4, and #4b and #4d, I'll leave adding more commentary about names and relationships to someone more in the know about zeolites.
7th Mar 2020 02:24 UTCOwen Missen
I think you're right about the ellipsis, but I can't see a way to expand the ellipsis, which means either (1) the section should be shortened or (2) the ellipsis should be expandable, otherwise it's not especially helpful.
thanks!
7th Mar 2020 03:07 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
I looked at a few of the series and groups among the zeolites, and apparently the text in the formula table specifically for series and groups is taken from the first sentence of the "general description" (as long as that first sentence isn't too long... otherwise we get part of it and then ellipsis). So whatever is written there gets reproduced in the table, where for species we'd see (and expect) a formula. If you want to see what the missing part of the text for the stilbite subgroup looks like, click on the stilbite subgroup link and you'll see the full text.
This may be a bug, since that choice seems like a rather arbitrary place to pull information from for the related-minerals table, unless it were originally intended that the first sentence of groups and series be a short and succinct description of series end-members (though it still would fail for groups with more than 2 or 3 members, still necessitating ellipsis).
Unfortunately, this is a programming issue (where the table contents are taken from, and how much space is allowed) and not a one that can be easily fixed by just editing the series or group pages (that is, unless we purposely add-in short, succinct and essentially low-value "there are X members in this group" first sentences that will then get reproduced in the table).
edit: I brought this issue up with the management team and will see what others there have to say about this.
7th Mar 2020 18:33 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
(that is, unless we purposely add-in short, succinct and essentially low-value "there are X members in this group" first sentences that will then get reproduced in the table).
7th Mar 2020 04:53 UTCMichael J Pabst 🌟
This might be the smallest correction ever: Sarkinite was named from the Greek σάρκινός (sarkinos) meaning flesh, due to its color. Mindat misspells it in Greek, wrongly substituting an upsilon (looks like u) for the nu (looks like v).
7th Mar 2020 05:12 UTCFrank K. Mazdab 🌟 Manager
10th Mar 2020 09:58 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
10th Mar 2020 22:20 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager
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