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LocalitiesUpper Auluta River, Malaita Island, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands

26th Apr 2024 21:45 UTCThe Evje og Hornnes geomuseum, Fennefoss Expert

I have read Allen & Deans, and I see no justification for the existence of this locality. A&D do not describe a "Upper Auluta River" locality as a separate locality, but they describe the nr. 1 and nr. 2 localities as shown on the map at page 3 of their publication (https://rruff.info/doclib/MinMag/Volume_34/34-268-16.pdf) located at tributaries of the Upper Auluta River. I propose to delete this locality.

27th Apr 2024 00:20 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager

I disagree the text states:

"In a small tributary of the Upper Auluta River (locality 1) a trail of ilmenite led to the outcrop of the ankaratrite, which appeared to be fairly extensive".

I suppose you could change the No. 2 locality to read something like: Unnamed locality, Unnamed tributary of Kwaifa River, Upper Auluta River, Malaita Island .. etc.

To delete it altogether would be inaccurate.

The No. 1 locality is in the Hohomela River which is a tributary of the upper Auluta River

28th Apr 2024 10:33 UTCThe Evje og Hornnes geomuseum, Fennefoss Expert

Yes, locality 1 on the map is located in a tributary of the Upper Auluta River, but NOT in the Upper Auluta River itself.

Nowhere in the text it is suggested that the Upper Auluta River itself is a locality where samples have been taken, and therefore it should be deleted as a locality.

Or, alternatively, the Upper Auluta River could become the parent locality, with the Alnöite and Ankaratrite localities as child localities.

It would anyway be more correct to register these as separate localities.

But to have 3 localities, of which 2 are true localities where samples have been taken, and 1 with only geograpical relevance, seems a bit redundant.

I would personally prefer to drop the Upper Auluta locality altogether. I do not see that any relevant/important data is contained/preserved in having such a locality registered at Mindat.