Talk:List of mineral tests

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... (mineral tests are not part of formation of minerals article and mineral types it is a specific field of skills used in geology exploration and this is highly relavent, accurate and up to date. Many universities teach this subject. Terms like cleavage mean cracks in the mineral in geology. Nothing is rude or biacised in this article. ) --Geology chris (talk) 20:44, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... (This article is a different specalist topic. It is different from other mineral articles. The principles and tests in this article are advanced and accurate. The material given has helped me understand how to test minerals and will help many other people.) --Geology chris (talk) 20:50, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... (This topic needs to be published and is different from other mineral articles. There are many methods mentioned and mineral testing is a different field of study completley which is taught in my class and is very helpful.) --81.104.161.113 (talk) 20:53, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Eat Test vs Taste Test vs Hardness?
Thanks for sorting out my article. The eat test is simliar to the hardness test but is different because your only useing your teeth and not a range of tools to determine the hardness. I am a geologist and i think eat is a term used more in Britain and Bite is used in other places it depends which part of the world you are. This was mostly used during early gold exploration to tell the difference between pyrite and gold but some people may still use this simple method. The taste test means the actual specific taste without using the teeth. This can be also know as the lick test but the taste test sounds better.

Suggested move
As this article consists mainly of links to other articles, I suggest it be moved to List of mineral tests. Biscuittin (talk) 17:16, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Vsmith (talk) 00:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)