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, minerals, mineral groups, mineral varieties, and topics pertaining to mineralogy and petrology.
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Rocks and Minerals |
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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) and a short description.
- 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}}
- 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).
- Keep the WikiProject Rocks and Minerals community active, growing, and well-supported. (This project is currently short on participants. Please join by adding yourself to the Active list below!)
Related Wikiprojects
Parentage
Other
- WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry is closely related.
- Other related WikiProjects are WikiProject Elements, WikiProject Chemicals
Participants
Active
Users who no longer appear to be active in this WikiProject have been moved to the Inactive list below. If your name has been moved but you are still actively contributing to rock- and mineral-related articles, please move your name back to the Active list.
- User:GeoWriter
- User:Kevmin A contributor to Mindat.org from a number of years and a mineral collector
- User:Utopes - Will help primarily with the igneous rocks and crystals.
- I2Overcome – Rock and mineral enthusiast. I'm here to improve rock and mineral articles and bring this mostly defunct WikiProject up to date.
- User:FinkyOfNalanja vague interest in obscure mineralogy
- User:King of Chimpanzees If you are able to see the pages I've visited, then you will see these are the pages I read.
- User:PeriodicEditor - Rock collector and I plan on creating articles on redlinked rocks and minerals
Inactive
- 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:Reconrabbit - there's a lot of overlap in mineralogy and inorganic chemistry!
- User:tharikrish Geologist
- User:Presidentman
- puggo (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2019 (UTC), as I learn
- User:Ktsquare (Chemist in the making and amateur geologist)
- Vsmith 01:40, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC) I have been working on mineral, rock & geology entries. Just found this project. Geologist and chemistry teacher.
- Ixfd64 - as noted on my user page, geology has always been one of my interests, so count me in! (on hiatus)
- LadyofShalott (talk · contribs) - particularly interested in igneous & metmorphic rocks
- Carbonite09 - Well,Carbon is my thing
- ebe123
- elf
- Hadal - naturally.
- User:Chris857 - writing and expanding mineral articles
- 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)
- Tobias1984 Currently working with metamorphic and igneous rocks and will help out where I can. --Tobias1984 (talk) 15:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
- User:Qfl247 - Sed geo who considers himself very well rounded...
- User:Abridged Physician, I like rocks! Abridged talk 20:49, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Belovedfreakand adam really like chicken
- AstroHurricane001 - I'll try working on pages related to rocks and minerals, etc.
- Riffsyphon1024, geology student, also working on geologic formations and planetary geology articles.
- DanielCD
- Jll, periodically
- 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
Discussions and worklists
Please do not use the below subpages for new discussion posts. Instead, please use the talk page.
Templates
Infoboxes
All articles within the scope of this project should contain an infobox if they fall into one of these two categories:
Minerals, mineral groups, and mineral varieties
Rocks
Stub tags
Navigational boxes
Sidebar templates
Userbox
Add {{User WP Rocks and minerals}} to your user page. It will look like this:
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See also: Category:Mineral user templates
Barnstar
For recognition of contributions to minerals and mineralogy, place {{subst:The Mineralogy Barnstar|message|~~~~}} on the recipient's talk page. It should look like this:
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The Mineralogy Barnstar | |
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Article alerts
Did you know
- 19 Feb 2026 – Bethan's Rock (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by A Thousand Doors (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 18 Nov 2025 – Blue lace agate (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by I2Overcome (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 18 Feb 2026 – Rhodium (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 07 Mar 2026 – Natural History Museum, Berlin (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Monster Iestyn (t · c); see discussion
Hot articles
This table displays edit counts for the past seven days.
This table is generated by querying the database replica and is periodically updated by a bot.
Edits made within the table area will be removed on the next update!
Edits made within the table area will be removed on the next update!
| Edits | Article | Rating |
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| 39 | Grape agate | B |
| 11 | Bethan's Rock | Start |
| 11 | Copper | GA |
| 8 | Rhodium | GA |
| 7 | Amethyst | C |
| 7 | Chrome chalcedony | Start |
| 7 | Lead | FA |
| 6 | Sapphire | B |
| 4 | Aluminium | GA |
| 4 | Asbestos | B |
| 4 | History of crystallography before X-rays | B |
| 4 | Uraninite | Start |
∑ 12 items | Query runtime: 0.88 s | Last updated: 15:26, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
End of auto-generated report.
Pages needing attention
Requests
- 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
Assessment
Please refer to the assessment subpage for information on how to assess an article or list within the scope of this project.
Statistics
- This table is automatically updated by Oleg Alexandrov's WP 1.0 bot. See the log for the latest changes.
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