Template talk:Infobox mineral
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals --Ligulem 20:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Example
From Xenotime:
| Xenotime | |
|---|---|
 Xenotime from the Poços de Caldas alkaline massif, Brazil | |
| General | |
| Category | Mineral |
| Formula (repeating unit) | YPO4 |
| Crystal system | Tetragonal |
| Identification | |
| Color | Brown, brownish yellow, gray |
| Crystal habit | Prismatic, aggregate, granular |
| Cleavage | Perfect, two directions |
| Fracture | Uneven to irregular |
| Mohs scale hardness | 4.5 |
| Luster | Vitreous to resinous |
| Streak | White |
| Specific gravity | 4.4–5.1 |
| Refractive index | 1.720-1.815 (DR +0.095) |
| Pleochroism | Dichroic |
Addition of new fields
I added a few new fields into the template box, to make it workable for gemological identification and characterisation. Cheers. SauliH 15:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
This could use some more crystallographic information. Ideally the full chembox amount of information would be useful, however, just including the structural information would be great. The other language wikipedias (esp. French) seem to have a significant bit more of the geochemical information for minerals such as barite, saponite, etc. It would be great if we could combine this with the chembox template. 130.39.188.24 (talk) 21:34, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Reference field
Added a reference field just before varieties for inclusion of <ref>...</ref> tags supporting the listed characteristics. Individual items can still be ref tagged if differing from the overall references. Used in the Benitoite article as an example. Vsmith 22:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)