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Introduction to Mindat
- Mindat Basics
- What is Mindat?
- How to Register
- How to Log In
- Terms of use
- Privacy
- Editor Buttons
- Miscellaneous
- How to Link to Mindat
- History of Mindat
- Mindat Contributors
- Access Rights
- Your Responsibilities
- Your Rights and Ownership of Data/Copyright.
How to Display
- Minerals
- Mineral Information
- Mineral Classification (Chemical groups)
- Localities (Mineral lists)
- Standard Locality Display
- Regional Report
- Detail information about mineral at a locality
- Recent Locality Changes
- Photographs
- Latest additions to databases
How to Search
- General
- Minerals
- Mineral Names
- Search by Chemistry of a mineral
- Mineral Identification by physical properties
- Localities
- Locality Search
- Mineral Associations
- Mineral occurrences in a region
- Mineral occurrences in a country
- Photographs
- Search Photograph database
- View a member's Mineral Photograph gallery
- Mineral photographs in a region
- Glossary
Message Board
- How to browse the messageboard
- How to Post a message
- Best Mineral Page
- Talk Pages
- Your Control Center
- Private Messsaging
How to Add Localities
- Using the Locality Editor
- Geographical and Regional Naming Conventions
- How to Add Minerals to a Locality
- Editing Mineral Data
- How to Delete a locality
