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PhotosTerlinguacreekite - McDermitt Mine, Opalite District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA

24th Sep 2016 04:14 UTCJohn Sobolewski 🌟 Expert

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Terlinguacreekite, Kleinite
McDermitt Mine, Opalite Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Copyright © Stephan Wolfsried 6/2015
This is a picture of 2 mineral species - terlinguacreekite and kleinite - that will not help a user not familiar with the species to determine which is which by looking at it and its caption. Mindat makes it very clear that if a picture includes 2 or more species, the caption should provide information for a user to help determine which species is which. Unfortunately there are many instances where this important information is missing. Mindat could help improve the situation by providing more of an incentive to include that information by putting pictures in the "user gallery only" if it is missing, no matter how great a picture it is. That would make Mindat even more useful than it already is.

Stephan, I love your specimens and your fantastic pictures, and do not mean to "pick on you". I just used your picture as a good example to make the above point in the hope that it will help us all in improving the usefulness of Mindat. John.

24th Sep 2016 06:10 UTCStephan Wolfsried Expert

No Problem. I thought if 80% of the material is Terlinguacreekite and some minor Kleinite crystals are around it is quite clear but You are right.

Fixed.


Stephan

24th Sep 2016 20:09 UTCŁukasz Kruszewski Expert

Great photo, btw

26th Sep 2016 13:43 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

Thank you John for bringing that up and thank you Stephan for fixing it. I agree with Lukasz it is a great photo.
 
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