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This list gives an overview of the classification of minerals (silicates) and includes mostly International Mineralogical Association (IMA) recognized minerals and its groupings. This list complements the List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association series of articles and List of minerals. Rocks, ores, mineral mixtures, non-IMA approved minerals and non-named minerals are mostly excluded.

Classification of minerals

Introduction

The grouping of the New Dana Classification and of the mindat.org is similar only, and so this classification is an overview only. Consistency is missing too on the group name endings (group, subgroup, series) between New Dana Classification and mindat.org. Category, class and supergroup name endings are used as layout tools in the list as well.

Abbreviations

Category '9': silicate minerals

Main category: Silicate minerals

Subclass '9.A': nesosilicates

Main category: Nesosilicates

"Garnet" supergroup
"Humite" supergroup

Subclass '9.B': sorosilicates

Main category: Sorosilicates

Subclass '9.C': cyclosilicates

Main category: Cyclosilicates

Subclass '9.D': inosilicates

Main category: Inosilicates

Single chain inosilicates
Pyroxene supergroup
Pyroxene Quadrilateral
Multiple chain inosilicates

Note: the amphibole subcommittee (CNMNC/ IMA) published many reports (IMA 1978 s.p., IMA 1997 s.p., IMA 2003 s.p., IMA 2012 s.p.), renaming and redefining many minerals. Working draft: rruff.info, mindat.org and mineralienatlas.de are not up to date yet.

Amphibole supergroup

Subclass '9.E': phyllosilicates

Main category: Phyllosilicates

Subclass '9.F': tectosilicates

Main category: Tectosilicates

Tectosilicates without zeolitic H2O
Tectosilicates with zeolitic H2O

Subclass: Germanates

Main category: Germanium minerals

See also

References

  • Stuart J. Mills; Frédéric Hatert; Ernest H. Nickel; Giovanni Ferraris (2009). "The standardisation of mineral group hierarchies: application to recent nomenclature proposals" (PDF). Eur. J. Mineral. 21 (5): 1073–1080. Bibcode:2009EJMin..21.1073M. doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1994. hdl:2268/29163. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  • Ernest H. Nickel; Monte C. Nichols (March 2009). "IMA-CNMNC List of Mineral Names". IMA-CNMNC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
  • "New Dana Classification". webmineral.com.
  • "Nickel-Strunz (Version 10) Classification System". webmineral.com.
  • "Mineral groups". mindat.org.