User talk:David Hospital

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 20:59, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

File:Akatoreite.jpg

Hello David Hospital, sorry for my doubt, but are you shure, that this picture shows akatoreite? It seems, that the mineral on the picture doesn't have the right color. All sources write about a color of yellow-orange to orange-brown, so on mineralienatlas, mindat, handbook of mineralogy and other.
Otherwise pictures like this and this show, that akatoreit is to find in paragenesis with pink rhodonite and rhodochrosite.
Therefore, it would be nice, if you could check again, that the shown mineral has the correct name. Best greetings -- Ra'ike T C 21:06, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Ra'ike I've uploaded a new image, a detail of the previous one. --David Hospital (talk) 09:58, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi David, thank you very much for your work! I have embedded this picture in the german article of Akatoreit and other language versions :-) Best regards and also a big thank you for your great picture posts of so much rare and fine minerals! -- Ra'ike T C 10:30, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Category:Minerals

Hello David Hospital, happy and healthy new year! :-)
Since I've seen, that you are uploading mineral images again and creating new categories for them, I would like to point to some changes. We have a new sub category Category:Minerals by status and there you can find amongst others special categories for approved minerals like hashemite and for questionable minerals like joséite-B. It would be really nice, if you could sort your new mineral categories in the correct sub category.
If you need help to classify the minerals, have a look on the New IMA List of Minerals (last updated in January 2021). Thank you very much for your work and best greetings -- Ra'ike T C 16:55, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks @Ra'ike: , I'll try to do as you say! --David Hospital (talk) 12:53, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Pictures of Laphamite or Orpiment?

Hello David Hospital, once more I have a question about your pictures File:Laphamite & Hieratite.jpg and File:Laphamite over Hieratite.jpg. Is it shure, that the yellow mineral is Laphamite? I'm asking, because there is a similar image of a yellow mineral from the same locality previously referred to as laphamite. After a discussion at mindat.org it was corrected to orpiment. According to the mineral descriptions (original paper, handbook of mineralogy), Laphamite should actually be red-orange to dark red and not yellow. Best wishes -- Ra'ike T C 10:20, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Ra'ike: , I don't know if the laphamite was analyzed (I can assure that hieratite was) but it was labelled in this way by the museum. --David Hospital (talk) 22:39, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi David Hospital, thank you for your info. I think, I'll try to contact the museum then. I know that problem, it was the same as in my picture File:Witherite - Cumberland, England.jpg. that formerly was labelled with bromellite of Cumberland/England. Have a look to the description and older versions of the picture, if you like :-) Best greetings -- Ra'ike T C 18:45, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For all the wonderful work you are doing getting well labeled minerals connected to Wikidata and uploaded on Commons! Keep up the great work! Sadads (talk) 01:22, 10 August 2023 (UTC)