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Improving Mindat.orgWrong districts

7th May 2012 03:13 UTCJames Christopher

Recently I visited the Lawson/Dumont district to collect minerals. I looked on Mindat to see where I had collected, and it wasn't listed. This reminded me I have an old report named Geology and Ore deposits of the Lawson-Dumont-Fall River District, Clear Creek County, Colorado (1967). This report has several maps with a lot of veins and mines marked. Mine was the Murray which I was at. It is listed in Mindat as being in the Jackson District, as is the Belleview. These are both apparently incorrect, as is the location on the Mindat map of the Belleview which shows up over 100 miles away from where it should be. I am willing to slowly go through the map and mines that came with the report, and put them on Mindat, as many are missing. I know I can create sublocalities, but am unsure if I can delete wrong ones in the wrong districts after I create the new ones. I don't know that there are many wrong ones, but obviously at least 2 exist. I will try to correlate the map to get the localities marked as accurately as I can. Will I be able to delete sublocalities, or should I let one of you do it when I create the correct ones?

9th May 2012 23:58 UTCJames Christopher

Or I guess I could just do nothing, and they can stay wrong and mostly missing.

10th May 2012 00:05 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Yeah, I guess no one is really interested in Colorado. They only have ugly rocks.

10th May 2012 00:23 UTCAlex Homenuke 🌟 Expert

Trying to start something, Rob.....???

10th May 2012 01:38 UTCDon Saathoff Expert

James, patience, patience.....Rome was not built...etc, etc. Mindat will NEVER be finished....part of its' beauty!!!

Don

10th May 2012 08:08 UTCRock Currier Expert

Fight! Fight!

10th May 2012 15:15 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

Our coordinates put the Bellvue mine about a half mile south of Lawson.

Mine names are not unique, so there can be several with the same or similar names in different mining districts even within a single county. The Murray mine is already listed in Lawson-Dumont district (the Murry mine in Jackson District is probably the same as the Murray mine). Over the years the mining districts have changed boundaries and names, so getting things sorted out can take a bit of work (in the USGS MRDS system, they run about 40% duplicated records).

10th May 2012 23:35 UTCJames Christopher

Well, my question is, if I start adding these mines from the report, and similarly named mines in different, but very close districts exist, what would you like me to do? Change the districts, leave them alone, make a new locality in the Lawson-Dumont district....or?

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