Wikipedia:WikiProject Mining

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Welcome to WikiProject Mining. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Mining and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

1 Goals
2 Scope
3 Guidelines
4 Open tasks
5 Participants
6 Articles
7 Templates
8 Categories
9 Resources
- 9.1 Related projects

[edit] Goals

[edit] Scope

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Mining:

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Here are some tasks you can do:

Gold mining in Nevada: I added a bit, & put it on my to-do list, but this page needs work! See Talk:Gold mining in Nevada. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 22:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC), Consulting Geologist, Arizona and New Mexico (USA)

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Kelapstick (talk · contribs)
Djoeyd114 (talk · contribs)
Plazak (talk · contribs)
Clinchfield (talk · contribs)
Rolinator (talk · contribs)
D-rew (talk · contribs)
Mukkakukaku (talk · contribs)
Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs)
Tharikrish (talk · contribs)
Black Tusk (talk · contribs)
Climberdave (talk · contribs) Geology + Mining
Tillman (talk · contribs) Western US & northern Mexico, gold & copper
Cheveney (talk · contribs) Mining in Cornwall and related topics, (currently mining in Western Australia)
Turgan (talk · contribs) Geology and mining, Uranium
Pyrope (talk · contribs) Base metal deposit geology and geochemistry.

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Mining}} to their userpages.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Mining-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

John Livermore -- I just wrote this short bio of the co-discoverer of Carlin. His oral history at UC is well worth reading. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 22:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Vale Inco Limited mines in Greater Sudbury - I am merging the 6 articles about Vale Inco Limited's mines in Greater Sudbury into one larger article, they were only stubs, and not likely to expand past what they were...the article is sitting in my sandbox for now, but we can likely extract something for DYK.--Kelapstick 18:16, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] Templates

{{User WikiProject Mining}} - userbox

{{WikiProject Mining}} - project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles. Substitute {WikiProject Mining|class=?|importance=?} to assess the article.