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This is a List of minerals for which there are Wikipedia articles. Mineral variety names and mineraloids are to be listed after the valid minerals for each letter.

For a complete listing (about 4,000) of all mineral names: List of minerals (complete).

Sorted by name:

A

  1. Abhurite
  2. Actinolite
  3. Adamite
  4. Aegirine
  5. Aenigmatite
  6. Aerinite
  7. Aeschynite-(Nd)
  8. Aeschynite-(Y)
  9. Aetites
  10. Afghanite
  11. Afwillite[[1]]
  12. Agardite
  13. Agrellite
  14. Akaganéite
  15. Albite
  16. Alforsite
  17. Allanite
  18. Alstonite
  19. Altaite
  20. Alunite
  21. Amblygonite
  22. Amphibole (mineral group)
  23. Analcite
  24. Anatase
  25. Andalusite
  26. Andesine
  27. Andradite
  28. Anglesite
  29. Anhydrite
  30. Ankerite
  31. Anorthite
  32. Anorthoclase
  33. Anthophyllite
  34. Antigorite
  35. Antitaenite
  36. Apatite (mineral group)
  37. Apophyllite
  38. Aragonite
  39. Arfvedsonite
  40. Argentite
  41. Armalcolite
  42. Arsenopyrite
  43. Astrophyllite
  44. Augite
  45. Aurichalcite
  46. Auricupride
  47. Autunite
  48. Axinite (mineral group)
  49. Azurite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Agate (variety of quartz)
  2. Alabaster (variety of gypsum)
  3. Alexandrite (variety of chrysoberyl)
  4. Allingite (synonym of amber)
  5. Alum
  6. Amazonite (variety of microcline)
  7. Amber (fossilized resin)
  8. Amethyst (purple variety of quartz)
  9. Ammolite (organic; also a gemstone)
  10. Amosite (asbestiform grunerite)
  11. Anyolite (metamorphic rock - zoisite, ruby, and hornblende)
  12. Aquamarine (light blue variety of beryl)
  13. Asbestos (fibrous serpentine- or amphibole minerals)
  14. Avalite (A chromian variety of Illite.)
  15. Aventurine (variety of quartz)

B

  1. Babingtonite
  2. Baddeleyite
  3. Barite (Baryte, British spelling)
  4. Bastnäsite (mineral group)
  5. Benitoite
  6. Bensonite
  7. Bentorite
  8. Berthierite
  9. Bertrandite
  10. Beryl
  11. Biotite
  12. Birnessite
  13. Bismite
  14. Bismuthinite
  15. Bixbyite
  16. Blödite
  17. Blossite
  18. Boehmite
  19. Boracite
  20. Borax
  21. Bornite
  22. Brazilianite
  23. Briartite
  24. Brookite
  25. Bronzite
  26. Brucite
  27. Brushite
  28. Bukovskyite
  29. Bytownite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Bauxite (aluminium ore)
  2. Beckerite (natural resin)
  3. Bixbite (red gem variety of beryl)

C

Native copper
  1. Calaverite
  2. Calcite
  3. Cancrinite
  4. Calderite
  5. Caledonite
  6. Cancrinite
  7. Canfieldite
  8. Carnallite
  9. Carnotite
  10. Cassiterite
  11. Cavansite
  12. Celadonite
  13. Celestine
  14. Cementite
  15. Cerite
  16. Cerussite
  17. Ceylonite
  18. Chabazite (a group of closely-related minerals in the zeolite group)
  19. Chalcanthite
  20. Chalcocite
  21. Chalcopyrite
  22. Chapmanite
  23. Charoite
  24. Childrenite
  25. Chlorastrolite
  26. Chlorite (mineral group)
  27. Chloritoid
  28. Chondrodite
  29. Chromite
  30. Chrysoberyl
  31. Chrysocolla
  32. Cinnabar
  33. Clinochrysotile
  34. Clinoclase
  35. Clinohedrite
  36. Clinohumite
  37. Clinoptilolite
  38. Clinozoisite
  39. Clintonite
  40. Cobaltite
  41. Coesite
  42. Coffinite
  43. Colemanite
  44. Columbite (mineral group)
  45. Combeite
  46. Cooperite
  47. Copiapite
  48. Copper
  49. Cordierite
  50. Corundum
  51. Covellite
  52. Creedite
  53. Cristobalite
  54. Cronstedtite
  55. Crookesite
  56. Crossite
  57. Cryolite
  58. Cumberlandite
  59. Cummingtonite
  60. Cuprite
  61. Cyanotrichite
  62. Cylindrite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Carnelian (variety of quartz)
  2. Chalcedony (cryptocrystalline variety of quartz)
  3. Chrysolite (gemmy yellow-green forsterite)
  4. Chrysoprase (green nickel bearing chalcedony)
  5. Chrysotile (group name - asbestiform serpentine)
  6. Citrine (yellow variety of quartz)
  7. Cleveite
  8. Coltan (short for minerals of the columbite group)
  9. Crocidolite (asbestiform riebeckite)
  10. Cymophane (variety of chrysoberyl)

D

The slightly misshapen octahedral shape of this rough diamond crystal in matrix is typical of the mineral.
  1. Danburite
  2. Datolite
  3. Dawsonite
  4. Delvauxite
  5. Diadochite
  6. Diamond
  7. Diaspore
  8. Dickite
  9. Diopside
  10. Dioptase
  11. Dolomite
  12. Dumortierite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Delessite (magnesian chamosite)
  2. Diatomite (diatomaceous earth)

E

  1. Ekanite
  2. Elsmoreite
  3. Emery (mineral)
  4. Enargite
  5. Enstatite
  6. Epidote
  7. Epsomite
  8. Erythrite
  9. Esperite
  10. Euchroite
  11. Euclase
  12. Eudialyte
  13. Euxenite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Emerald (green gem variety of beryl)

F

  1. Fabianite
  2. Fassaite
  3. Fayalite (olivine group)
  4. Feldspar (mineral group)
  5. Feldspathoid (mineral group)
  6. Ferberite
  7. Fergusonite
  8. Feroxyhyte
  9. Ferrierite (subgroup of zeolite minerals)
  10. Ferrihydrite
  11. Ferro-anthophyllite
  12. Ferrocolumbite
  13. Ferrohortonolite (olivine group)
  14. Ferrotantalite
  15. Fergusonite (mineral group)
  16. Fluorapatite (apatite group)
  17. Fluorcaphite
  18. Fluorichterite (amphibole group)
  19. Fluorite
  20. Fluorspar (synonym of fluorite)
  21. Forsterite (olivine group)
  22. Franckeite
  23. Franklinite (spinel group)
  24. Freibergite
  25. Freieslebenite
  26. Fukuchilite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Fassaite Variety of augite
  2. Ferricrete Iron oxide cemented soil or sediment

G

  1. Gadolinite (mineral group)
  2. Gahnite
  3. Galaxite
  4. Galena
  5. Garnet (mineral group)
  6. Garnierite
  7. Gaylussite
  8. Germanite
  9. Geigerite
  10. Gibbsite
  11. Glauberite
  12. Glauconite
  13. Glaucophane
  14. Gmelinite
  15. Goethite
  16. Gold
  17. Graftonite
  18. Graphite
  19. Greenockite
  20. Grossular
  21. Grunerite
  22. Gummite
  23. Gunningite
  24. Gypsum
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Gedanite (fossilized resin)
  2. Glessite (natural resin)

H

Hematite carving.
  1. Haggertyite
  2. Haidingerite
  3. Halite
  4. Halloysite
  5. Halotrichite
  6. Hanksite
  7. Hapkeite
  8. Hardystonite
  9. Harmotome
  10. Hauerite
  11. Hausmannite
  12. Hauyne
  13. Hawleyite
  14. Haxonite
  15. Heazlewoodite
  16. Hectorite
  17. Hedenbergite
  18. Hellyerite
  19. Hematite
  20. Hemimorphite
  21. Herbertsmithite
  22. Herderite
  23. Hessite
  24. Hessonite
  25. Heulandite
  26. Hibonite
  27. Hilgardite
  28. Hisingerite
  29. Holmquistite
  30. Homilite
  31. Hopeite
  32. Hornblende
  33. Howlite
  34. Hübnerite
  35. Humite
  36. Hutchinsonite
  37. Hyalophane
  38. Hydrogrossular
  39. Hydromagnesite
  40. Hydroxylapatite
  41. Hydrozincite
  42. Hypersthene
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Heliodor (greenish-yellow variety of beryl)
  2. Heliotrope (variety of chalcedony)
  3. Hiddenite (variety of spodumene)
  4. Hyalite (variety of opal)

I

  1. Idocrase (synonym of vesuvianite)
  2. Idrialite
  3. Ikaite
  4. Illite
  5. Ilmenite
  6. Ilvaite
  7. Iodargyrite
  8. Iron

J

  1. Jacobsite
  2. Jadarite
  3. Jadeite
  4. Jamesonite
  5. Jarosewichite
  6. Jarosite
  7. Jeffersonite
  8. Juonniite
  9. Jurbanite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Jade (tough, green mineral either jadeite or nephrite amphibole)
  2. Jasper (variety of quartz)
  3. Jet (fossilised wood)

K

  1. Kaatialaite
  2. Kadyrelite
  3. Kainite
  4. Kalininite
  5. Kalinite
  6. Kalsilite
  7. Kamacite
  8. Kambaldaite
  9. Kankite
  10. Kaolinite
  11. Kassite
  12. Keilite
  13. Kermesite
  14. Kernite
  15. Kerolite
  16. Kieserite
  17. Kinoite
  18. Knebelite
  19. Knorringite
  20. Kobellite
  21. Kogarkoite
  22. Kolbeckite
  23. Kornerupine
  24. Kratochvilite
  25. Kremersite
  26. Krennerite
  27. Kukharenkoite-(Ce)
  28. Kutnohorite
  29. Kyanite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Keilhauite (variety of titanite)
  2. Krantzite (natural resin)
  3. Kunzite (variety of spodumene)

L

  1. Labradorite
  2. Lanarkite
  3. Langbeinite
  4. Lansfordite
  5. Lanthanite
  6. Laumontite
  7. Laurite
  8. Lawsonite
  9. Lazulite
  10. Lazurite
  11. Lead
  12. Leadhillite
  13. Legrandite
  14. Lepidocrocite
  15. Lepidolite
  16. Leucite
  17. Leucophanite
  18. Leucoxene
  19. Levyne
  20. Lewisite
  21. Libethenite
  22. Linarite
  23. Liroconite
  24. Litharge
  25. Lithiophilite
  26. Livingstonite
  27. Lizardite
  28. Lollingite
  29. Lonsdaleite
  30. Loparite-(Ce)
  31. Lopezite
  32. Lorandite
  33. Lorenzenite
  34. Ludwigite
  35. Lyonsite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Lapis lazuli (a rock consisting primarily of lazurite, calcite and pyrite)
  2. Larimar (blue variety of pectolite)
  3. Lechatelierite (fused quartz glass)
  4. Lignite (a type of coal)
  5. Limonite -(a mineraloid )
  6. Lodestone (a synonym of magnetite)
  7. Lublinite variety of calcite

M

A polished slice of Malachite
Muscovite
  1. Mackinawite
  2. Maghemite
  3. Magnesite
  4. Magnesioferrite
  5. Magnetite
  6. Majorite
  7. Malachite
  8. Malacolite
  9. Magnesioferrite
  10. Manganite
  11. Manganocolumbite
  12. Manganotantalite
  13. Marcasite
  14. Margaritasite
  15. Margarite
  16. Mascagnite
  17. Massicot
  18. McKelveyite
  19. Meionite
  20. Melaconite
  21. Melanite
  22. Melilite
  23. Melonite
  24. Mendozite
  25. Meneghinite
  26. Mercury
  27. Mesolite
  28. Metacinnabarite
  29. Metatorbernite
  30. Mica (a group of silicate minerals)
  31. Microcline
  32. Microlite
  33. Millerite
  34. Mimetite
  35. Minium
  36. Mirabilite
  37. Mixite
  38. Moganite
  39. Mohite
  40. Moissanite
  41. Molybdenite
  42. Monazite
  43. Monohydrocalcite
  44. Monticellite
  45. Montmorillonite (clay mineral)
  46. Moolooite
  47. Mordenite
  48. Mottramite
  49. Mullite
  50. Murdochite
  51. Muscovite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Magnesia
  2. Mariposite (variety of phengite/muscovite)
  3. Menilite (variety of opal)
  4. Meerschaum (variety of sepiolite)
  5. Milky quartz (a cloudy white quartz)
  6. Morganite (a pink beryl)
  7. Morion (synonym of smoky quartz)

N

  1. Nabesite
  2. Nacrite
  3. Nagyagite
  4. Nahcolite
  5. Native copper
  6. Natrolite
  7. Natron
  8. Natrophilite
  9. Nekrasovite
  10. Nelenite
  11. Nenadkevichite
  12. Nepheline
  13. Nephrite
  14. Neptunite
  15. Nickel
  16. Nickeline
  17. Niedermayrite
  18. Niningerite
  19. Niobite (synonym of columbite)
  20. Niobite-tantalite (synonym of columbite-tantalite)
  21. Nissonite
  22. Nitratine
  23. Nitre
  24. Nontronite
  25. Nosean
  26. Nsutite
  27. Nyerereite

O

Polished Opal
  1. Oligoclase
  2. Olivine (a group of silicate minerals)
  3. Olivenite
  4. Omphacite
  5. Ordonezite
  6. Oregonite
  7. Orpiment
  8. Orthochrysotile
  9. Orthoclase
  10. Osarizawaite
  11. Osmium
  12. Otavite
  13. Ottrelite
  14. Overite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Onyx (a monochromatic banded variety of chalcedony)
  2. Opal

P

  1. Painite
  2. Palladium
  3. Palygorskite
  4. Papagoite
  5. Parachrysotile
  6. Paragonite
  7. Pararealgar
  8. Parisite
  9. Pectolite
  10. Pelagosite
  11. Pentlandite
  12. Periclase
  13. Perovskite
  14. Petalite
  15. Petzite
  16. Pezzottaite
  17. Pharmacosiderite
  18. Phenakite
  19. Phillipsite
  20. Phlogopite
  21. Phoenicochroite
  22. Phosgenite
  23. Phosphophyllite
  24. Pigeonite
  25. Plagioclase Na-Ca feldspar.
  26. Platinum
  27. Polarite
  28. Pollucite
  29. Polybasite
  30. Potassium alum
  31. Polycrase
  32. Polydymite
  33. Polyhalite
  34. Powellite
  35. Prehnite
  36. Proustite
  37. Psilomelane
  38. Purpurite
  39. Pumpellyite
  40. Pyrargyrite
  41. Pyrite
  42. Pyrochlore
  43. Pyrolusite
  44. Pyromorphite
  45. Pyrope
  46. Pyrophyllite
  47. Pyroxene (group of silicate minerals)
  48. Pyroxferroite
  49. Pyrrhotite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Palagonite (basaltic volcanic glass)
  2. Perlite (volcanic glass)
  3. Phosphorite (name given to impure, massive apatite.)
  4. Plessite (mixture of kamacite and taenite)
  5. Pitchblende (a massive impure form of uraninite)
  6. Pumicite (synonym of pumice)

Q

Quartz
  1. Quartz
  2. Quenstedtite

R

  1. Rambergite
  2. Rammelsbergite
  3. Realgar
  4. Renierite
  5. Rheniite
  6. Rhodium
  7. Rhodochrosite
  8. Rhodonite
  9. Rhomboclase
  10. Rickardite
  11. Riebeckite
  12. Romanèchite
  13. Robertsite
  14. Rosasite
  15. Roscoelite
  16. Rosenbergite
  17. Routhierite
  18. Ruthenium
  19. Rutherfordine
  20. Rutile
  21. Rynersonite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Rock crystal (quartz)
  2. Rose quartz
  3. Roumanite (amber)
  4. Ruby (red gem corundum)

S

  1. Sabatierite
  2. Sabieite
  3. Sabinaite
  4. Safflorite
  5. Sal ammoniac
  6. Saliotite
  7. Samarskite
  8. Samsonite
  9. Sanbornite
  10. Saneroite
  11. Sanidine (orthoclase variety)
  12. Santite
  13. Saponite (clay mineral)
  14. Sapphirine
  15. Sassolite
  16. Sauconite
  17. Scapolite (a group of silicate minerals)
  18. Scheelite
  19. Schoepite
  20. Schorl (black tourmaline)
  21. Schreibersite
  22. Schwertmannite
  23. Scolecite
  24. Scorodite
  25. Scorzalite
  26. Seamanite
  27. Seeligerite
  28. Segelerite
  29. Sekaninaite
  30. Selenide
  31. Selenite
  32. Selenium
  33. Seligmannite
  34. Sellaite
  35. Senarmontite
  36. Sepiolite
  37. Serpentine
  38. Shattuckite
  39. Siderite
  40. Siderotil
  41. Siegenite
  42. Sillimanite
  43. Silver
  44. Simetite
  45. Simonellite
  46. Skutterudite
  47. Smaltite
  48. Smectite
  49. Smithsonite
  50. Soda niter
  51. Sodalite
  52. Sperrylite
  53. Spessartite
  54. Sphalerite
  55. Sphene
  56. Spinel
  57. Spodumene
  58. Stannite
  59. Staurolite
  60. Steacyite
  61. Steatite (talc)
  62. Stephanite
  63. Stibnite
  64. Stichtite
  65. Stilbite
  66. Stilleite
  67. Stolzite
  68. Stromeyerite
  69. Strontianite
  70. Struvite
  71. Studtite
  72. Sugilite
  73. Sulfur
  74. Sussexite
  75. Sylvanite
  76. Sylvite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Sapphire (gem corundum of any color except red, especially blue varieties)
  2. Sard (a variety of chalcedony/quartz)
  3. Satinspar (a variety of Gypsum)
  4. Smoky quartz (a brown or black variety of quartz)
  5. Soapstone (a rock)
  6. Spectrolite (a variety of labradorite)
  7. Stantienite (a variety of amber)

T

Massive turquoise in matrix with quartz from Mineral Park, Arizona.
  1. Tachyhydrite
  2. Taenite
  3. Talc
  4. Tantalite
  5. Tantite
  6. Tarapacaite
  7. Tausonite
  8. Teallite
  9. Tellurite
  10. Tellurium
  11. Tellurobismuthite
  12. Temagamite
  13. Tennantite
  14. Tenorite
  15. Tephroite
  16. Terlinguaite
  17. Teruggite
  18. Tetradymite
  19. Tetrahedrite
  20. Thaumasite
  21. Thenardite
  22. Thomasclarkite
  23. Thomsenolite
  24. Thorianite
  25. Thorite
  26. Thortveitite
  27. Thuringite
  28. Tiemannite
  29. Tin
  30. Tincalconite
  31. Titanite
  32. Titanowodginite
  33. Todorokite
  34. Tokyoite
  35. Topaz
  36. Torbernite
  37. Tourmaline (group of silicate minerals)
  38. Tremolite
  39. Trevorite
  40. Tridymite
  41. Triphylite
  42. Triplite
  43. Triploidite
  44. Trona
  45. Tsavorite
  46. Tschermigite
  47. Tugtupite
  48. Tungstite
  49. Tyrolite
  50. Turquoise
  51. Tusionite
  52. Tyuyamunite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Tanzanite (variety of Zoisite)
  2. Thulite (variety of Zoisite)
  3. Travertine (form of calcium carbonate)
  4. Tsavorite (gem variety of grossularite garnet)

U

  1. Uchucchacuaite
  2. Uklonskovite
  3. Ulexite
  4. Ullmannite
  5. Ulvospinel
  6. Umangite
  7. Umber
  8. Umbite
  9. Upalite
  10. Uraninite
  11. Uranophane
  12. Uranopilite
  13. Uvarovite
Varieties that are not valid species:
  1. Ultramarine
  2. Unakite, a rock composed of feldspar, epidote and quartz
  3. Uralite alteration actinolite

V

  1. Vaesite
  2. Valentinite
  3. Vanadinite
  4. Variscite
  5. Vaterite
  6. Vauquelinite
  7. Vauxite
  8. Vermiculite
  9. Vesuvianite
  10. Villiaumite
  11. Violarite
  12. Vivianite
  13. Volborthite

W

  1. Wad
  2. Wagnerite
  3. Wardite
  4. Warwickite
  5. Wavellite
  6. Weddellite
  7. Weilite
  8. Weissite
  9. Weloganite
  10. Whewellite
  11. Whitlockite
  12. Willemite
  13. Wiluite
  14. Witherite
  15. Wolframite
  16. Wollastonite
  17. Wulfenite
  18. Wurtzite
  19. Wüstite
  20. Wyartite

X

  1. Xenotime
  2. Xifengite
  3. Xonotlite

Y

  1. Ye'elimite
  2. Ytterbite
  3. Yttrialite
  4. Yttrium(III) oxide
  5. Yttrocerite
  6. Yttrocolumbite

Z

  1. Zabuyelite
  2. Zaccagnaite
  3. Zaherite
  4. Zajacite-(Ce)
  5. Zakharovite
  6. Zanazziite
  7. Zaratite
  8. Zeolite (group of silicate minerals)
  9. Zhanghengite
  10. Zharchikhite
  11. Zektzerite
  12. Zhemchuzhnikovite
  13. Zhonghuacerite-(Ce)
  14. Ziesite
  15. Zimbabweite
  16. Zinalsite
  17. Zinc-melanterite
  18. Zincite
  19. Zincobotryogen
  20. Zincochromite
  21. Zinkenite
  22. Zinnwaldite
  23. Zippeite
  24. Zircon
  25. Zirconolite
  26. Zircophyllite
  27. Zirkelite
  28. Zoisite
  29. Zunyite

See also