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GeneralUnapproved photo in a public gallery?
3rd May 2026 13:16 UTCAlain Guillet OP
Hello, I posted this photo of native antimony and stibnite at the beginning of April. It wasn't approved, and the message "identification uncertain" appeared. I immediately modified the description, providing more details: the piece is from the Yves Moello collection, who studied and analyzed the sample, but the photo remains in user gallery only. Is there a problem with my description?
3rd May 2026 13:38 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
"native antimony in a small piece of stibnite, sample sawn to clearly see the antimony."
I didn't review the photo, but in the photo, where is the native antimony and where is the stibnite?
3rd May 2026 15:48 UTCAlain Guillet OP
Native antimony is bright grey and stibnite is dark grey
4th May 2026 04:26 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Alain
Also adding your comment from above to the text "Native antimony is bright grey and stibnite is dark grey" as not everyone who looks at mindat photos is aware of which is which.
Using the annotation tool is also very useful for folks who may be colourblind and really not see much difference in colours of a similar hue, or even be aaware of what a particular mineral looks like.
(I didn't review the photo by the way).
4th May 2026 06:15 UTCAlain Guillet OP
Thanks Keith, I don't know the annotation tool, I have a lot of trouble with English and it's not easy for me to find all the mindat tools.
4th May 2026 06:20 UTCJean-Marc Johannet Manager
Bonjour Alain, n’hésite pas à me questionner si besoin.
4th May 2026 06:25 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Alain
If you click on your photo you will note in the top right hand corner of the screen there is a heading of Annotations and immediately below is a box [ Add ]
Simply click in the box and two headings will appear in the top left of your screen.
Simply move one of those to labels to the appropriate spot on the specimen. then the same for the others.
Then select save and finish.
These can then be collapsed - and you will note that your photo then has a little tag arrow in the left hand top corner.
4th May 2026 09:15 UTCAlain Guillet OP
bonjour Jean-Marc peut tu me dire comment l'option d'annotation des photos fonctionne ?
4th May 2026 09:33 UTCAlain Guillet OP
Thanks Keith, I think I managed to add the annotations to my photo.
4th May 2026 11:53 UTCJean-Marc Johannet Manager
Alain, Keith m’a devancé et je vois que tu as parfaitement compris comment cela fonctionne.
Bravo pour cette amélioration à ta photo de stibine et d’antimoine, objet de cette discussion. Elle est maintenant approuvée en “public gallery”.
L’outil d’annotation est vraiment très pratique pour identifier les différents minéraux présents sur une photo, je te recommande de l’utiliser le plus souvent possible.
4th May 2026 13:10 UTCAlain Guillet OP
oui avec les explications ça marche bien et c'est simple merci à vous deux
5th May 2026 00:42 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Alain
You did good !!
Glad you worked out the annotations
Cheers
3rd May 2026 13:58 UTCNoah Horwitz 🌟
It seems like editing the description doesn't always put the photo back into the approval queue. I had a similar issue where a reviewer suggested a more specific locality. After changing the locality and description, nothing happened for over a month (in that case, I also wasn't happy with the photo quality, and after I replaced the photo with a better image it went back in the queue and got approved).
Editing the description does seem to put the photo back in the queue if it was approved for public galleries, but maybe not if it was placed in user gallery?
3rd May 2026 15:53 UTCAlain Guillet OP
Yes, that's the problem. We get a message asking us to make a change, but once the photo is changed, we don't hear anything back, and since we don't know who posted the message, we don't know who to contact.
4th May 2026 04:10 UTCYash Redkar
I have had this issue multiple times.
4th May 2026 10:19 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager
There has been a problem at times where edited photos automatically went to User Only, but it’s fixed now.
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To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844. doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
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To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844. doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
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