Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals

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This WikiProject's goal is to improve and maintain the quality of the articles, lists, templates, and categories within its scope, including rocks, rock units, minerals, mineral groups, gemstones, and related topics.

Specific goals:

• Bring every article and list in Category:WikiProject Rocks and minerals as close to Featured Article or Featured List status as possible:

• Make sure all articles are properly referenced.
• Maximize compliance with the Wikipedia manual of style.
• Clean up tagged articles.

• Make sure every article about a rock, mineral, or mineral subgroup/series has an infobox (see below)
• Standardize the formatting of Infobox rock and Infobox mineral and make sure all relevant parameters are included.
• Make sure all rock and mineral-related talk pages are tagged with both {{Category:WikiProject Rocks and minerals}} and {{Category:Geology}}
• Keep the WikiProject Rocks and Minerals community active, growing, and well-supported.
• Discuss the content of Rock and Mineral articles on Wikipedia and the direction that WikiProject Rocks and Minerals should take (see talk page).
• Define a standard infobox for use in rock and mineral entries (goal completed in late 2000s)

If you would like to help, please add yourself to the list of participants below!

• WikiProjects

• WikiProject Geology

• WikiProject Rocks and minerals

• 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.

Mineralogy task force

Wikidata Mineralogy Task Force

Please do not use the below subpages for new discussion posts. Instead, please use the talk page.

• /Infobox discussion
• /Worklist
• /Draft on mineral notability
• /Main page archive

For minerals, mineral groups, and mineral varieties:

• Infobox mineral

For all rocks:

• Infobox rock

For rock units:

• Infobox rockunit

For recognition of contributions to the Rocks and Minerals Wikiproject, place {{subst:The Mineralogy Barnstar|message|~~~~}} on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:

		The Mineralogy Barnstar
		message name (talk) date/time

Parts of this Wikipedia page (those related to this section) need to be updated. Please help update this Wikipedia page to reflect recent events or newly available information. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. (March 2025)

• 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
    • Wikipedia:School and university projects/2003-2008 past projects#University of Houston, Houston, TX – Mineralogy Project (Fall 2007)
  • 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
    • Wikipedia:School and university projects/2009 past projects#University of Houston, Houston, TX – Mineralogy Project (Fall 2009)
  • 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?
    • Wikipedia:School and university projects/2011 past projects#University of Houston, Houston, TX – Mineralogy Project (Fall 2011)
  • 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[1] discusses only the cosmetic product. I don't have the expertise to edit this, but perhaps the British Geological Survey article at [2] 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)

Request picture

• Add {{reqphoto|mineralogy}} 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)[reply]
• Wikipedia:Requested articles/Natural sciences/Environment and geology#Minerals

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Rocks and minerals articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 3 5 GA 1 5 28 34 B 2 9 18 38 5 72 C 5 23 60 155 15 258 Start 23 140 652 9 824 Stub 1 28 1,086 5 1,120 List 1 1 24 35 1 62 NA 1 14 722 737 Assessed 9 57 278 2,011 722 35 3,112 Unassessed 1 1 Total 9 57 278 2,011 722 36 3,113 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 12,156 Ω = 5.26

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