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 project aims to provide factual, unbiased information on mineral resourcemines, mining and mining related topics, from prehistory to the present.
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Cleanup : need to make strong clarifications on distinctions between strip mining vs. open-pit mining (there seem to be many linguistic issues resulting from translation of languages where the distinction isn't so clear)
Stubs :Miner (very little if any information on the history of miners, mining culture, mining traditions, or miners in heraldry (such as seals and coats of arms). New Acland Mine, New Oakleigh Mine
Other :look at priorities; broad subjects should be before single mines, iconic mines before small mines, mines before mining personalities, etc? Done (see proposed working assessment scale)
Diamond drilling needs some work and some expansion. It may need an entire re-write. I cleaned it up a bit, eliminated sentence fragments and added some tags for citations and expert attention, but it still has a long way to go, and I have no good references myself. ThanksTheseeker4 (talk) 17:04, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Elliot Lake - I have started creating pages for the historical Uranium mines in the area. Anyone who wishes to is welcome to contribute. I will eventually try to do the same for the Beaverlodge District. -- TurganTalk 14:55, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Lengenbach Quarry - not a new article, but I just discovered it and templated the talk page. An interesting quarry, type locality of 27 valid minerals. Needs work. DuncanHill (talk) 18:18, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Portal:Mining - Looks like a good place to start. TurganTalk 11:36, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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