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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Rocks and Minerals
•  Info created - uploaded by Cccefalon - nominated by Christian Ferrer -- Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:34, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:34, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Tozina (talk) 19:18, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 19:31, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Cart (talk) 20:02, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 20:05, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support dllu (t,c) 00:15, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - That's beautiful. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:21, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, I nominated this file as QI recently, and that one for FP is also a good idea -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:46, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Nothing to complain about. -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:21, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Haha per Johann :) --Podzemnik (talk) 05:08, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Ermell (talk) 06:17, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:49, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support per Ikan -- P999 (talk) 20:03, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 20:36, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Is it me, or do we not really get many FP noms of minerals like this? Daniel Case (talk) 05:56, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:50, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:54, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:51, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support This image rocks. :) (yes, I know, dry humour, sorry)--Peulle (talk) 15:19, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Poco² 17:47, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
• The image is very successful. But there is a big problem: it is an encrustation of quartz crystals on a base of limonite. there is no prehnite, nor laumontite. The caption and title must be changed. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:00, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

 Comment Archaeodontosaurus, you are doubtless an expert on such minerals. For me, I only can rely on the label that was delivered with the object when brought to me for taking this photo. I am not against changing caption and title but I would appreciate a second confirmation of your analysis. Anyone else, who can second the change to "Geode with an encrustation of quartz crystals on a limonite base"? --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 07:47, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

 Comment Just go and see what prehnite and laumontite look like. It is also easy to see the quartz. Again your photographic work is not in question, but we can not make an FP Label on a determination error. Ask Christian Ferrer who is an exellent connoisseur of delicate situations. He will find a solution. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 08:13, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks you Archaeodontosaurus for you benevolent vision of my ability to handle difficult situations, I will be much more moderate about that. I am not able to identify visually the minerals, even by comparing the other images of Laumontite, Prehnite, Quartz and Limonite, though Limonite seems indeed visually credible here. The only thing I can do is to withdraw this nomination, but before that, maybe we can search for the opinions of some users @Alchemist-hp and Géry PARENT: ? Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 08:49, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

 Comment It should be not a problem, to change name and description. If any new findings surface, we can again change the description or revert to the former one. As already stressed, I have no specific knowledge of minerals and acted only as photographer. The owner of the mineral bought it at the event "Mineralientage Dortmund, Germany". He is not cognizant of minerals either but he purchased it for its beauty. It came together with a handwritten label. Archaeodontosaurus, would you like to add a suitable description? --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 11:09, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

 Comment It's easy to say what it is not, but it's much harder to say what it is. I suppose you did not have any indication of the location of the deposit, otherwise you would have given it in the caption. The blue spot under the quartz evokes a mineralization of copper carbonate as auricalcite. There is in the gangue bottom right a microdegode also mineralized blue-green. One of the sites that would fit this piece is Mapimi in Mexico. But there are other deposits of this type in the world. In all the collections there are lots of badly labeled pieces that we keep preciously hoping one day what will be identified.--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 13:04, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

 Comment Unfortunately, this handwritten label was the only thing that came with the mineral. I could add have added a hint in brackets behind the actual description such as "(Attention: the provenience and correct determination of this mineral is disputed.)". I also modified the filename. The filename used in FP is now only a redirect. --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 09:20, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

What's the dispute about the provenance? Isn't it only the chemical composition of the mineral that's at issue? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:39, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

@Archaeodontosaurus: All your request have been met. So what else to do? Should I dance the chemical structure for you? :-) --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 05:20, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

• There are no more problems for me --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:26, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 05:44, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

 Support --XRay ^talk 10:51, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 21 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 15:21, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects/Rocks and Minerals