Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals

This WikiProject's goal is to define a standard infobox for using in rock and mineral entries. Eventually, after general agreement, project's focus will change to facilitating the conversion of the existing rock and mineral articles to the agreed upon format discussed in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rocks and minerals.

Parentage

 * WikiProjects
 * WikiProject Geology
 * WikiProject Rocks and minerals

Other

 * WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry is closely related.
 * Other related WikiProjects are WikiProject Elements, WikiProject Chemicals, and its Chemical infobox discussion.
 * Also see the various discussions on infoboxes, currently broken into at least two areas: infobox and the infobox talk page.

Barnstar
For recognition of contributions to the Rocks and Minerals Wikiproject, place on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

Participants
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 * Carbonite09 - Well,Carbon is my thing
 * ebe123
 * elf
 * Hadal - naturally.
 * I'll start notifying people... Elf 17:46, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * puggo (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2019 (UTC), as I learn
 * User:Ktsquare (Chemist in the making and amateur geologist)
 * Jll, periodically
 * Vsmith 01:40, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC) I have been working on mineral, rock & geology entries. Just found this project. Geologist and chemistry teacher.
 * DanielCD
 * Riffsyphon1024, geology student, also working on geologic formations and planetary geology articles.
 * Ixfd64 - as noted on my user page, geology has always been one of my interests, so count me in! (on hiatus)
 * Belovedfreakand adam really like chicken


 * AstroHurricane001 - I'll try working on pages related to rocks and minerals, etc.
 * {{User|LadyofShalott}} - particularly interested in igneous & metmorphic rocks
 * User:GeoWriter
 * User:Kevmin A contributer to Mindat.org from a number of years and a mineral collector
 * User:Abridged Physician, I like rocks! Abridged {{sup|talk}} 20:49, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * User:tharikrish Geologist
 * User:Qfl247 - Sed geo who considers himself very well rounded...
 * User:Presidentman
 * Tobias1984 Currently working with metamorphic and igneous rocks and will help out where I can. --Tobias1984 (talk) 15:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * User:Chris857 - writing and expanding mineral articles
 * User:Utopes - Will help primarily with the igneous rocks and crystals.
 * user:Licks-rocks - grad student earth science, for now mostly working on fixing errors in articles.
 * User:Epsilon.Prota - Working mainly in mineralogy, with some focus on structural geology
 * User:Vivian S Zitek - Mindat.org contributor and mineralogy enthusiast. Will primarily focus on mineral species, filling in missing data and carrying out maintenance. Vivian S Zitek 00:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
 * User:Reconrabbit - there's a lot of overlap in mineralogy and inorganic chemistry!

Inactive
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 * A.Grace - Amature collector
 * mav (amateur geologist)
 * Greudin, sporadically.
 * chd, most of the time at the german wikipedia.
 * fiveless Sometimes, when I'm not doing something else on Wikipedia.
 * Ballista I enjoy adding geological info to articles and editing geological articles, so I join here, despite lack of time and special expertise.
 * Afrotrance
 * - Iotha, sporadically
 * Linnell, geology student
 * User:Jmpenzone, geoscientist/geologist
 * User:fossiliferous Geochemist
 * AlexNebraska (talk) 22:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * User:Razorflame I love rocks and minerals and will help write and/or help any articles that need to be created or helped.
 * User:MED usgswrd -(MEDegnan) Geologist by training, interested in sedimentary and hydrothermal minerals
 * User:John Mortimore
 * User:Duanuys

General Strategy and Discussion forum

 * /General
 * /Infobox discussion (AKA /Taxobox discussion...seem to be discussions going on here AND on talk page. Hmmm.)
 * /Worklist
 * /Draft on mineral notability
 * WikiProject Rocks and minerals/Assessment

Template
I based the content of this table on information found in various places: I based the format in part on the table used for chemical compounds such as:
 * Rocks and Minerals:
 * quartz
 * quartzite
 * graphite
 * silicon dioxide

Explanations

 * There's much discussion about colors in the infobox discussion. I don't see that, in this topic, more than one color adds any significant or obvious information. (E.g., we could do one for metamorphic rocks, one for sedimentary rocks, etc., but I don't know that it's particularly useful to do so.) Elf


 * The compounds table doesn't have a title with the name of the compound; instead it's listed as a small item under General. I think it's clearer to have the name at the top, as with animals and several other table categories. Elf

Comment history from original location

 * Good choice of colour. It really stands out. Is it possible to condense it a bit? Maybe this should be moved to a Project space. mydogategodshat 09:45, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Examples: rock templates
Here are possible rock infobox templates.

Igneous rock template

Metamorphic rock template

Sedimentary rock template

infobox template

International template below.

Template (international)
This would be my suggestion. There are two reasons:
 * 1. common characteristics into more details
 * 2. it will be easier if to translate if its the same in all languages, as there are already some in German.

In the German project there are there missing:
 * Pleochroism
 * Melting point
 * Solubility

I hope the translation is correct. Please have a look at it. For example:

Crystal class: is a classification by Carl Hermann und Charles-Victor Mauguin (Hermann–Mauguin notation) or Arthur Schoenflies (Schoenflies notation).

Gaucho 15:57, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

(Discussion moved to talk page. Elf 18:28, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC))

Pages needing attention

 * Category:Rocks and minerals articles needing attention
 * University of Houston, Department of Geosciences, 'adopt-a-mineral' term paper for the course Geology 3370 - Introduction to Mineralogy, prof. Jonathan E. Snow, instructor
 * Fall 2007: pabstite, atheneite, lawsonite, tschermakite, covellite, moissanite, wadsleyite, afwillite, wollastonite, iddingsite, penroseite, scheelite, sperrylite, santabarbaraite, celsian, julgoldite, krutovite, jerrygibbsite
 * School and university projects/2003-2008 past projects
 * Fall 2009: chambersite, alacránite, coyoteite, balangeroite, calumetite, bursaite, cleusonite, colimaite, creedite, clearcreekite, campigliaite, changbaiite, cesanite, cervandonite, coconinoite, boleite, chaidamuite, ashburtonite, bilinite, baotite, bararite, athabascaite, coloradoite, bonaccordite, bystrite, bastnäsite, chamosite, bukovite, beraunite, ashoverite, bityite, cyrilovite, bergenite
 * School and university projects/2009 past projects
 * Fall 2011: garnierite, perhamite, geigerite, partheite, chrisstanleyite, schreyerite, carnallite, ullmannite, jarosewichite, murdochite, delafossite, maricite, lorandite, warikahnite, donnayite-(Y), satterlyite, dollaseite-(Ce), baddeleyite, alforsite, bornite, perovskite, coffinite, dickite, zanazziite, hübnerite, penikisite, braggite, huttonite?, kankite?
 * School and university projects/2011 past projects
 * Fall 2013: brazilianite, chalveticeite, hidalgoite, natromontebrasite, guyanaite, eveslogite, ephesite, hubeite, hiärneite, gordaite, greifensteinite, gugiaite, farneseite, ferrogedrite, ferronigerite-2N1S, franklinphilite, chatkalite, bicchulite
 * Univ. Houston, Earth Materials, Mrs. Catlos: eveite (Fall 2010)
 * Newbies: User talk:Tony00345 (pseudowollastonite, 2009), User talk:Friedshrimp007 (ericssonite, 2010), User talk:Rshah1018 (raspite and roselite, 2010), User talk:Jburke430 (chesterite, 2010), User talk:Kelhansard (cymrite, 2010), User talk:Molyru (grandreefite, 2010), User talk:Skibo112 (schäferite, 2010)


 * July 2014: The entry for Fullers Earth discusses only the cosmetic product. I don't have the expertise to edit this, but perhaps the British Geological Survey article at is a good start if somebody has the time and inclination
 * October 2020: Category talk:Bismuth minerals, Category:Radioactive minerals - a comment is needed about the radioactivity of bismuth minerals (to prevent edition warring)

Requests

 * Request picture
 * Add   to the talk-page of articles that require a picture. View the requests: Category:Wikipedia requested images of mineralogy


 * Requested articles
 * Note, critical mineral raw materials: most important mineral groups were known at the end of the XIX Century. Many U and uranyl minerals came later with the nuclear technology. Monazite, bastnäsite and loparite-(Ce) became important REE sources with the widespread use of electronics (monazite is not used because of the production of thorium waste as by-product). Rhodium and titanium is important too. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 07:36, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Requested articles/Natural sciences/Environment and geology