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Improving Mindat.org"Ochre" Mineral Page - photo error
6th Feb 2012 14:44 UTCPeter Cristofono
http://www.mindat.org/min-27440.html
17th Feb 2012 01:26 UTCReiner Mielke Expert
21st Feb 2012 11:21 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
22nd Feb 2012 18:10 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
26th Feb 2012 06:51 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
But there is still a disturbing issue with having the locations for eg. iron ochres showing every known occurrences of hematite, goethite etc, whether as an ochre or not (26,000). There probably are thousands of occurrences of ochre worldwide, but nobody photographs them, and I could only fine one picture labelled as such, so added that to the iron ochre page. Similarly not every massicot is earthy, so its not an ochre, etc.
Some ochres are already listed as mixtures rather than synonyms. I have tried to edit iron and lead ochres to mixtures, but it does not cooperate!
Until we get rid of multi-synonyms we keep presenting people with badly misleading images and data!
26th Feb 2012 08:52 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
They can be set as mixtures, or simply a plain mineral with the list of possible identities in the description.
As we remember from basic Mindat Lesson number 1.
A synonym is only the case where A = B (or A = B, C and D) and B is also always = A (or B, C and D are always = A)
So this is simply a matter of something that has not been categorized correctly.
Edit it (as I have for 'ochre' and 'antimony ochre', both in different ways to show what I mean) and problem will go away.
Jolyon
27th Feb 2012 12:27 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
27th Feb 2012 13:21 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
28th Feb 2012 12:01 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
28th Feb 2012 13:26 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
29th Feb 2012 13:12 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
29th Feb 2012 13:18 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
Jolyon
1st Mar 2012 13:18 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
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