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The Spanish translation uses different names for the ores that are in the ground (the entity-name, "mineral") and the ores extracted by the mining drills (the item-name, "mena", a term used for the extracted material that's useful and goes to the smelter). Factorio 2.0 introduced the map search and it causes some inconsistencies because when you search, it does by its entity-name, but the text it displays is the item-name.

Thus if you search "mena" (what the map shows when you mouseover over a ore patch) you find nothing, but when you search for "mineral" you get all of them, even though the word "mineral" is nowhere in the text displayed in the map (see attached image)

To maintain consistency the map should display the "entity-name" both in the map and in the drop down list for ore patches.

Unfortunately I think it will not work right in this way,
A resource patch can produce any number of items,
For example you can change iron ore to produce fish:
The chart result shows what items the patch will product, which is also important as it can have different yields per item,
Like mining iron could give 1 iron ore and 5 stone, and we want to reflect that in the tooltip

There is the thought that the search should be based on item name instead of entity name,
Say I want to know where to mine fish, I could expect the iron patch to show up because it will produce fish

But for now I will say this is not a bug

There is the thought that the search should be based on item name instead of entity name,
Say I want to know where to mine fish, I could expect the iron patch to show up because it will produce fish

That would work as well, by item-name or both, since the issue we have is the inconsistency between what you search and the results.