Talk:List of minerals

message: I think it would be quite a good idea to standardise the various mineral pages so that they all present roughly the same information in the same way.  An example of a layout that I think works is actinolite.  If anyone wants to help go through the current list of minerals and tidy them up a bit... :)  cferrero 17:35 Feb 27, 2003 (UTC)
:See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rocks_and_Minerals.  Syntax 04:42, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comments

message: The recent additions to the A list by Heron prompted the question: How many? So I answered it with numbered lists. Any comments? What about the invalid ones, synonyms, and group names? Move them to separate lists after each letter or at the end? -Vsmith 05:56, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The big list is supposed to be all valid (from: mindat.org) but, I'm a bit skeptical about a few of them - well haven't looked at ALL of 'em. I've started separating the varieties and odd ones from the little list. Lots to do :-) -Vsmith 00:12, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbered list 

message: Should this list be at the WP Rocks and Minerals or is it dead? the WP? SatuSuro 09:48, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been rather inactive for quite awhile. Vsmith (talk) 11:25, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: It is hard to tell

message: I'm wondering if we could add potash to the list. According to :Category:Potassium minerals potash is a mineral. I'm not knowledgeable in mineralogy so I'm not sure.--Lorikeet (talk) 03:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm... it doesn't seem to be on mindat after a search, and seems more like a common name for a chemical compound. Perhpas it should be taken off of the "minerals" categorizations? Awickert (talk) 03:34, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Potash is not a mineral in it's own right thus should probably not be included on the minerals list.  It is a common name for a mixture of salts, usually halite and sylvite, and potassium carbonate.  It can also sometimes (rarely) be used to refer to potassium feldspars (potash feldspars).  Turgan Talk 04:45, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's what I thought even before doing the search. I'll remove it from the list and categories - thanks. Awickert (talk) 05:26, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, perhaps the confusion was that one link was to the USGS list of minerals. Awickert (talk) 05:28, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potash 

message: Why is this listed here when it is defined ...the aetites (singular in Latin) or aetite (anglicized) is a stone used to promote childbirth. The stone is said to prevent....? --Tranletuhan (talk) 05:38, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Gone, thanks. Vsmith (talk) 13:05, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aetites 

message: Where is Peridot? Not here for some reason.Mocha2007 (talk) 14:31, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See the olivine article, peridot is gem-quality olivine. Mikenorton (talk) 14:35, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is Peridot? 

message: I wanted to float the idea -- could we include a small representative image for all the minerals that have one?  Currently the page seems a lot like a category listing with a few images floating around on the side.  One possibility would be to do a somewhat more condensed, two-column version of List of sandwiches.  There's a few obvious drawbacks -- some minerals have several very different-looking forms and we may not have images for all the ones listed on this page.  Overall, I think it could be an improvement.  Any thoughts?  a13ean (talk) 20:34, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Representative images? 

message: A list of articles in those subcategories of :Category:Minerals where minerals should reside, but that are not currently in this list, can be found here. There shouldn't be any IMA-valid mineral species in the list, but there will be a few groups that could be added, and a fair few "varieties" of varying "notability" that, depending on how variety is being defined here, could be added. There's also a small number of poorly categorized articles in need of recatting. Dong, where is my automobile? (talk) 09:38, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should be up to date 

message: Protoenstatite, ferro-tschermakite, batagayite, greenlizardite, aurihydrargyrumite, hydrokenopyrochlore, katerinopoulosite, ferrobobfergusonite, ferrovorontsovite (and vorontsovite, from one of the previous newsletters), levantite, betpakdalite-FeFe (and all other betpakdalite-group species), garmite, schmidite, sharyginite, chlorellestadite, piccoliite; examples from older newsletters: odigitriaite, mendeleevite-(Ce), mendeleevite-(Nd) Eudialytos (talk) 12:45, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the information, but please note that this article is a list of mineral articles present on Wikipedia, not a complete list of all minerals (which is at List of minerals (complete)). GeoWriter (talk) 12:26, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing minerals (e.g., IMA CNMMN Newsletter no. 37) 

message: I suggest that mineraloids should be removed from this list article because they are not minerals. (They are, however, listed in the mineraloid article). Comments? GeoWriter (talk) 12:01, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the mineraloids. GeoWriter (talk) 12:00, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of mineraloids 

message: Why is aluminimum/aluminum in this list of minerals? It's an element (atomic number 13), not a mineral.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.233.56.35 (talk) 21:40, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Wikipedia's own page for minerals, "a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form." Native aluminium, while rare, is solid, a chemical compound, definitely has a well-defined chemical composition and has its specific crystal structure as a metal. It has occurred naturally in pure form, as seen in the Billeekh intrusion. Hence it is a mineral, as well as a chemical element. IceBlaeze (talk) 10:07, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The definition of a mineral is not actually universally agreed, therefore the words "broadly speaking" are significant - there are various exceptions e.g. for historical reasons that override chemistry. In the three most widely used mineral classification systems (Nickel-Strunz, Dana, IMA/CNMNC), there is a class for element minerals, but only some elements qualify as minerals. Aluminium is a mineral because it is a naturally occurring solid element with a specific crystal structure. (It is not a chemical compound because it is an element and therefore cannot also be a combination of elements). GeoWriter (talk) 11:25, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  aluminum/aluminium is an element, not a mineral - why is it listed here?