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# Babánekite (vivianite: IMA2012-007) 8.CE

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(IUPAC: tricopper diarsenate octahydrate) #

Babefphite Babefphite is a rare phosphate mineral with the general formula BaBe(PO4)(F,OH). The name is given for its composition (Ba meaning barium, Be meaning beryllium, F meaning fluorine, and P for phosphorus). Crystallography Babefphite is tetragonal, ...

(IMA1966-003) 8.BA.1

(IUPAC: barium beryllium fluoro phosphate) #

Babingtonite Babingtonite is a calcium iron manganese inosilicate mineral with the formula Ca2( Fe, Mn)Fe Si5 O14(O H). It is unusual in that iron(III) completely replaces the aluminium so typical of silicate minerals. It is a very dark green to black transluc ...

(rhodonite: 1824) 9.DK.0

# Babkinite (tetradymite: IMA1994-030) 2.GC.40

(Pb₂Bi₂(S,Se)₃) # Backite (tellurium oxysalt: IMA2013-113) 7.

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(IUPAC: dilead aluminium chloro tellurium(VI) hexaoxide) # Badakhshanite-(Y) (perettiite: IMA2018-085) 9.

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Baddeleyite Baddeleyite is a rare zirconium oxide mineral (ZrO2 or zirconia), occurring in a variety of monoclinic prismatic crystal forms. It is transparent to translucent, has high indices of refraction, and ranges from colorless to yellow, green, and dar ...

(baddeleyite: 1893) 4.DE.3

(IUPAC: zirconium(IV) dioxide) # Badengzhuite (phosphide: IMA2019-076) 1.

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(IUPAC: titanium phosphide) # Bafertisite (seidozerite, bafertisite: IMA2016 s.p., 1959) 9.BE.5

# Baghdadite (wohlerite: IMA1982-075) 9.BE.1

(IUPAC: hexacalcium dizirconium tetraoxo di(heptaoxodisilicate)) # Bahariyaite (IMA2020-022

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(IUPAC: pentaluminium triantimony(V) dihydro tetradecaoxide) #

Baileychlore The chlorites are the group of phyllosilicate minerals common in low-grade metamorphic rocks and in altered igneous rocks. Greenschist, formed by metamorphism of basalt or other low-silica volcanic rock, typically contains significant amounts ...

(chlorite: IMA1986-056) 9.EC.5

# Bainbridgeite-(YCe) (mckelveyite: IMA2020-065) 5.CC

o o# Bairdite (IMA2012-061) 8.

o o# Bakakinite (IMA2022-046) # Bakhchisaraitsevite (IMA1999-005) 8.CH.5

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(IUPAC: disodium pentamagnesium tetraphosphate heptahydrate) # Baksanite (tetradymite: IMA1992-042) 2.DC.0

(IUPAC: hexabismuth ditelluride trisulfide) #

Balangeroite Balangeroite is found in one of the most important chrysotile mines in Europe, the Balangero Serpentinite. Hence, it is usually mistaken as an asbestiform in an assemblage of other mineral phases like chrysotile, magnetite and Fe-Ni alloys. H ...

(IMA1982-002) 9.DH.3

# Balestraite (mica: IMA2013-080) 9.E?

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(IUPAC: dibismuth oxo disulfate) # Balipholite (carpholite: 1975) 9.DB.0

(IUPAC: lithium barium dimagnesium trialuminium di(hexaoxodisilicate) octahydroxyl) # Balkanite (IMA1971-009) 2.BD.1

(IUPAC: pentasilver nonacopper mercury octasulfide) #

Balliranoite Balliranoite (( Na, K)6 Ca2( Si6 Al6 O24) Cl2( C O)3) is a mineral that was discovered at Monte Somma – Vesuvio volcanic complex, Campania, Italy. This mineral is named in honor oPaolo Ballirano(b. 1964), Italian crystallographer and professor ...

(cancrinite: IMA2008-065) 9.FB.0

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# Balyakinite (tellurite: IMA1980-001) 4.JK.1

(IUPAC: copper(II) tellurite(IV)) # Bambollaite (IMA1965-014) 2.EB.05

() # Bamfordite (IMA1996-059) 4.FK.0

(IUPAC: iron(III) trihydro dimolybdenum hexaoxide monohydrate) #

Banalsite Banalsite is a rare barium, sodium aluminium silicate mineral with formula: BaNa2Al4Si4O16. Banalsite is a tectosilicate of the feldspar group. Banalsite and its strontium analogue, stronalsite (SrNa2Al4Si4O16), constitute a complete solid soluti ...

(Y: 1944) 9.FA.6

# Bandylite (Y: 1938) 6.AC.3

(IUPAC: copper chloro tetrahydroxyborate) # Bannermanite (IMA1980-010) 4.HF.0

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Bannisterite Bannisterite is a mineral named in honor of mineralogist and x-ray crystallographer Dr. Frederick Allen Bannister (1901-1970). It is a calcium-dominant member of the ganophyllite group, and was previously identified as ganophyllite in 1936, but ...

(stilpnomelane: IMA1967-005) 9.EG.7

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Baotite {{Infobox mineral , name = Baotite , category = Cyclosilicate , image = Baotite-661893.jpg , imagesize = 260px , alt = , caption = Baotite from Sheep Creek, Mineral Point District, Ravalli County, Montana , formula = Ba ...

(IMA1962 s.p., 1960) 9.CE.1

# Barahonaite 8.CH.60 ##Barahonaite-(Al) (IMA2006-051) 8.CH.6

##Barahonaite-(Fe) (IMA2006-052) 8.CH.6

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Bararite Bararite is a natural form of ammonium fluorosilicate (also known as hexafluorosilicate or fluosilicate). It has chemical formula (NH4)2SiF6 and trigonal crystal structure. This mineral was once classified as part of cryptohalite. Bararite is name ...

(fluorosilicate: 1951) 3.CH.1

(IUPAC: diammonium hexafluorosilicate) #

Baratovite Baratovite is a very rare cyclosilicate mineral named after Rauf Baratovich Baratov from Tajikistan. It was discovered in 1974 at Dara-Pioz glacier, Tajikistan, and was approved by the International Mineralogical Association only a year later in ...

(baratovite: IMA1974-055) 9.CJ.2

# Barberiite (fluoroborate: IMA1993-008) 3.CA.1

(IUPAC: ammonium tetrafluoroborate) # Barbosalite (Y: 1954) 8.BB.4

(IUPAC: iron(II) diiron(III) dihydro diphosphate) # Barentsite (IMA1982-101) 5.BB.0

(IUPAC: heptasodium aluminium tetrafluoro dicarbonate dibicarbonate) # Bariandite (straczekite: IMA1970-043) 4.HE.2

# Barićite (vivianite: IMA1975-027) 8.CE.4

(IUPAC: tri(magnesium,iron) diphosphate octahydrate) # Barikaite (sartorite: IMA2012-055) 2.

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(Ag₃Pb₁₀(Sb₈As₁₁)Σ19S₄₀) # Barioferrite (magnetoplumbite: IMA2009-030) 4.CC.4

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(IUPAC: barium dodecairon(III) nonadecaoxide) # Bario-olgite (aphthitalite: IMA2003-002) 8.AC.4

# Bario-orthojoaquinite (joaquinite: IMA1979-081) 9.CE.2

(IUPAC: tetrabarium diiron(II) dititanium dioxo octa(trioxosilicate) monohydrate) # Barioperovskite (oxide perovskite: IMA2006-040) 4.CC.3

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(IUPAC: barium titanium trioxide) # Bariopharmacoalumite (pharmacosiderite: IMA2010-041) 8.DK.1

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(IUPAC: (0.5)barium tetraluminium etrahydro triarsenatetetrahydrate) #

Barite Baryte, barite or barytes ( or ) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate ( Ba S O4). Baryte is generally white or colorless, and is the main source of the element barium. The ''baryte group'' consists of baryte, celestine (strontium sulfate), ...

# Bariumpharmacosiderite (pharmacosiderite: IMA1994 s.p., 1966 Rd) 8.DK.1

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(IUPAC: barium tetrairon(III) etrahydro triarsenatepentahydrate) # Bariosincosite (IMA1998-047) 8.CJ.6

(IUPAC: barium di(oxovanadate) diphosphate tetrahydrate) # Barlowite (claringbullite: IMA2010-020) 3.DA.1

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(IUPAC: tetracopper hexahydro bromide fluoride) # Barnesite (hewettite: IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 4.HG.4

# Barquillite (stannite: IMA1996-050) 2.KA.1

(IUPAC: dicopper (cadmium,iron) germanide tetrasulfide) #

Barrerite Barrerite is a tectosilicate mineral and a member of the zeolite family. It is one of the rarer zeolites. It was named for Richard Barrer, a New Zealand-born chemist. Barrerite crystal are white to pinkish, with a vitreous-glassy luster. The cry ...

(zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1974-017) 9.GE.1

# Barringerite (barringerite: IMA1968-037) 1.BD.1

(IUPAC: di(iron,nickel) phosphide) #

Barringtonite Magnesium carbonate, (archaic name magnesia alba), is an inorganic salt that is a colourless or white solid. Several hydrated and basic forms of magnesium carbonate also exist as minerals. Forms The most common magnesium carbonate forms are ...

^N (Y: 1965) 5.CA.1

(IUPAC: magnesium carbonate dihydrate) # Barroisite a-Ca-amphibole: IMA2012 s.p., 19229.DE.2

# Barrotite (chalcophyllite: IMA2011-063a) 7.

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Barstowite Barstowite, formula Pb4 CO3��H2O, is a transparent to white mineral in the monoclinic system. It has a Mohs hardness of 3, a white streak and an adamantine lustre. The type locality for Barstowite is Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall in the ...

(IMA1989-057) 3.DC.9

(IUPAC: tetralead hexachloro carbonate monohydrate) #

Bartelkeite Bartelkeite is an exceptionally rare mineral, one of scarce natural germanium compounds. The formula was originally assumed to be PbFeGe3O8,Keller, V.P., Hess, H., and Dunn, P.J., 1981. Bartelkeit, PbFe2+Ge3O8, ein neues Germanium-Mineral von Tsume ...

(lawsonite: IMA1979-029) 9.J0.1

(IUPAC: lead iron(II) germanium (heptaoxodigermanate) dihydroxyl monohydrate) # Bartonite (djerfisherite: IMA1977-039) 2.FC.1

(K₆Fe₂₀S₂₆S) # Barwoodite (welinite: IMA2017-046) 9.AF

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(IUPAC: barium diberyllium heptaoxodisilicate) # Barysilite (Y: 1888) 9.BC.2

(IUPAC: octalead manganese tri(heptaoxodisilicate)) #

Baryte Baryte, barite or barytes ( or ) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate ( Ba S O4). Baryte is generally white or colorless, and is the main source of the element barium. The ''baryte group'' consists of baryte, celestine (strontium sulfate), ...

(baryte: IMA1971 s.p., 1797) 7.AD.3

(IUPAC: barium sulfate) #

Barytocalcite Barytocalcite is an anhydrous barium calcium carbonate mineral with the chemical formula Ba Ca( C O3)2. It is trimorphous with alstonite and paralstonite, that is to say the three minerals have the same formula but different structures. Baryte ...

(Y: 1824) 5.AB.4

(IUPAC: barium calcium dicarbonate) # Barytolamprophyllite (seidozerite, lamprophyllite: IMA1968 s.p., 1959) 9.BE.2

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Bassanite Bassanite is a calcium sulfate mineral with formula CaSO4· H2O or 2CaSO4·H2O. In other words it has half a water molecule per CaSO4 unit, hence its synonym ''calcium sulfate hemihydrate''. Bassanite was first described in 1910 for an occurrenc ...

(rhabdophane: 1910) 7.CD.4

(IUPAC: calcium sulfate (0.5)hydrate) # Bassetite (Y: 1915) 8.EB.1

(IUPAC: iron(II) diuranyl diphosphate decawater) # Bassoite (IMA2011-028) 4.

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Bastnäsite The mineral bastnäsite (or bastnaesite) is one of a family of three carbonate-fluoride minerals, which includes bastnäsite-( Ce) with a formula of (Ce, La)CO3F, bastnäsite-( La) with a formula of (La, Ce)CO3F, and bastnäsite-( Y) with a formul ...

05.BD.20a
(IUPAC: REE fluoro carbonate) ##Bastnäsite-(Ce) (IMA1987 s.p., 1841) 5.BD.20

##Bastnäsite-(La) (IMA1966 s.p.) 5.BD.20

##Bastnäsite-(Nd) (IMA2011-062) 5.BD.20

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##Bastnäsite-(Y) (IMA1987 s.p., 1970) 5.BD.20

# Batagayite (IMA2017-002) 8.

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# Batiferrite (magnetoplumbite: IMA1997-038) 4.CC.4

# Batisite (batisite: IMA1962 s.p.) 9.DH.2

(IUPAC: disodium barium dititanium dioxo di(hexaoxodisilicate)) # Batisivite (IMA2006-054) 9.BE.9

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Baumhauerite Baumhauerite (Pb3As4S9) is a rare lead sulfosalt mineral. It crystallizes in the triclinic system, is gray-black to blue-gray and its lustre is metallic to dull. Baumhauerite has a hardness of 3. Baumhauerite occurs as small crystals embedded in ...

(sartorite: 1902) 2.HC.05

(Pb₁₂As₁₆S₃₆) #

Baumhauerite II Baumhauerite (Pb3As4S9) is a rare lead sulfosalt mineral. It crystallizes in the triclinic crystal system, system, is gray-black to blue-gray and its lustre (mineralogy), lustre is metallic to dull. Baumhauerite has a Mohs scale of mineral hardne ...

^Q (sartorite: 1959) 2.

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o o# Baumstarkite (aramayoite: IMA1999-049) 2.HA.2

(IUPAC: trisilver hexasulfa triantimonide) # Bauranoite (wolsendorfite: IMA1971-052) 4.GB.2

(IUPAC: barium diuranium heptaoxide (4-5)hydrate) # Bavenite (IMA2015 s.p., IMA1962 s.p., 1901) 9.DF.2

# Bavsiite (IMA2014-019) 9.

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(IUPAC: dibarium divanadium dioxo odecaoxotetrasilicate #

Bayerite Gibbsite, Al(OH)3, is one of the mineral forms of aluminium hydroxide. It is often designated as γ-Al(OH)3 (but sometimes as α-Al(OH)3.). It is also sometimes called hydrargillite (or hydrargyllite). Gibbsite is an important ore of alumin ...

(Y: 1928) 4.FE.1

(IUPAC: aluminium trihydroxide) #

Bayldonite Bayldonite (BAIL-done-ite) is a rare secondary mineral with the chemical formula PbCu3(AsO4)2(OH)2. It was first discovered in Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is named after its discoverer, John Bayldon (1837(8) – 187 ...

(Y: 1865) 8.BH.4

(IUPAC: tricopper lead dihydro oxo di(hydroxoarsenate)) #

Bayleyite Bayleyite is a uranium carbonate mineral with the chemical formula: Mg2(UO2)(CO3)3·18(H2O). It is a secondary mineral which contains magnesium, uranium and carbon. It is a bright yellow color. Its crystal habit is acicular but is more commonly f ...

(Y: 1951) 5.ED.0

(IUPAC: dimagnesium uranyl tricarbonate octadecahydrate) # Baylissite (IMA1975-024) 5.CB.4

(IUPAC: dipotassium magnesium dicarbonate tetrahydrate) # Bazhenovite (IMA1986-053) 2.FD.5

# Bazirite (benitoite: IMA1976-053) 9.CA.0

(IUPAC: barium zirconium nonaoxotrisilicate) # Bazzite (beryl: 1915) 9.CJ.0

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# Bearsite (IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 8.DA.0

(IUPAC: diberyllium hydro arsenate tetrahydrate) # Bearthite (brackebuschite: IMA1986-050) 8.BG.0

(IUPAC: dicalcium aluminium hydro diphosphate) # Beaverite 07.BC.10
(IUPAC: lead (diiron(III) Metal) hexahydro disulfate) ##Beaverite-Cu (alunite, alunite: IMA2007-D, IMA1987 s.p., 1911 Rd) 7.BC.1

##Beaverite-Zn (alunite, alunite: IMA2010-086) 7.BC.1

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# Bechererite (IMA1994-005) 7.DD.5

# Beckettite (sapphirine: IMA2015-001) 4.

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Becquerelite Becquerelite is a uranium mineral with the chemical formula: Ca(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8(H2O). It is a secondary mineral which contains calcium and is a bright yellow colour. It has a Mohs hardness of about 2. It was named after the French physicist Antoi ...

(Y: 1922) 4.GB.1

(IUPAC: calcium hexauranyl hexahydro tetraoxide octahydrate) # Bederite (wicksite: IMA1998-007) 8.CF.0

(IUPAC: dicalcium tetramanganese(II) diiron(III) hexaphosphate dihydrate) # Beershevaite (phosphate: IMA2020-095a

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(IUPAC: calcium triiron(III) oxotriphosphate) # Béhierite (zircon: IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 6.AC.1

(IUPAC: tantalum borate) # Behoite (cristobalite: IMA1969-031) 4.FA.05

(IUPAC: beryllium dihydroxide) # Běhounekite (IMA2010-046) 7.

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(IUPAC: uranium disulfate tetrawater) # Beidellite (montmorillonite, smectite: 1925) 9.EC.4

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Belakovskiite Belakovskiite is a very rare uranium mineral with the formula Na7(UO2)(SO4)4(SO3OH)(H2O)3.Kampf, A.R., Plášil, J., Kasatkin, A.V., and Marty, J., 2014. Belakovskiite, Na7(UO2)(SO4)4(SO3OH)(H2O)3, a new uranyl sulfate mineral from the Blue Lizard ...

(IMA2013-075) 7.

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(IUPAC: heptasodium uranyl tetrasulfate hydroxosulfate triwater) # Belendorffite (amalgam: IMA1989-024) 1.AD.1

(IUPAC: heptacopper hexamercury amalgam) # Belkovite (IMA1989-053) 9.BE.7

# Bellbergite (zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1990-057) 9.GD.2

# Bellidoite (IMA1970-050) 2.BA.2

(IUPAC: dicopper selenide) # Bellingerite (Y: 1940) 4.KC.0

(IUPAC: tricopper hexaiodate dihydrate) # Belloite (IMA1998-054) 3.DA.10

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(IUPAC: copper hydro chloride) # Belogubite (chalcanthite: IMA2018-005) 7.

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(IUPAC: copper zinc disulfate decahydrate) # Belomarinaite (aphthitalite: IMA2017-069a) 7.

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(IUPAC: potassium sodium sulfate) # Belousovite (IMA2016-047) 7.

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(IUPAC: potassium zinc chloro sulfate) # Belovite 8.BN.05
(IUPAC: sodium REE tristrontium fluoro triphosphate) ##Belovite-(Ce) (apatite: 1954) 8.BN.0

##Belovite-(La) (apatite: IMA1995-023) 8.BN.0

# Belyankinite^Q (Y: 1950) 4.FM.2

# Bementite (IMA1963 s.p., 1888 Rd) 9.EE.0

# Benauite (alunite, crandallite: IMA1995-001) 8.BL.1

(IUPAC: strontium triiron(III) hexahydro phosphate hydroxophosphate) # Benavidesite (IMA1980-073) 2.HB.1

(IUPAC: tetralead manganese tetradecasulfa hexaantimonide) # Bendadaite (arthurite: IMA1998-053a) 8.DC.1

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(IUPAC: iron(II) diiron(III) dihydro diarsenate tetrahydrate) #

Benitoite Benitoite () is a rare blue barium titanium cyclosilicate, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. It forms in low temperature, high pressure environments typical of subduction zones at convergent plate boundaries. Benitoite fluoresces ...

(benitoite: 1907) 9.CA.0

(IUPAC: barium titanium nonaoxotrisilicate) # Benjaminite (pavonite: IMA1975-003a, 1925 Rd) 2.JA.05

(Ag₃Bi₇S₁₂) # Benleonardite (pearceite-polybasite: IMA1985-043) 2.LA.5

() # Bennesherite (melilite: IMA2019-068) 9.

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(IUPAC: dibarium iron(II) heptaoxo disilicate) #

Benstonite Benstonite is a mineral with formula Ba6Ca6Mg(CO3)13. Discovered in 1954, the mineral was described in 1961 and named after Orlando J. Benston (1901–1966). Description and occurrence Benstonite is translucent and white, pale yellow, or pale ...

(IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 5.AB.5

(IUPAC: hexabarium hexacalcium magnesium tridecacarbonate) #

Bentorite Bentorite is a mineral with the chemical formula Ca6(Cr,Al)2(SO4)3(OH)12·26H2O. It is colored violet to light violet. Its crystals are hexagonal to dihexagonal dipyramidal. It is transparent and has vitreous luster. It has perfect cleavage. It ...

(ettringite: IMA1979-042) 7.DG.1

# Benyacarite (IMA1995-002) 8.DH.3

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Beraunite Beraunite is an iron phosphate mineral. It was first described by August Breithaupt for an occurrence in Beraun currently in the Czech Republic. Beraunite occurs as a secondary mineral in iron ore deposits, and as an alteration product of primary ...

(beraunite: 1841) 8.DC.2

(IUPAC: iron(II) pentairon(III) pentahydro tetraphosphate hexahydrate) #

Berborite Berborite is a beryllium borate mineral with the chemical formula Be2(BO3)(OH,F)·(H2O). It is colorless and leaves a white streak. Its crystals are hexagonal to pyramidal. It is transparent and has vitreous luster. It is not radioactive. Berborite ...

(IMA1967-004) 6.AB.1

(IUPAC: diberyllium hydro borate monohydrate) # Berdesinskiite (berdesinskiite: IMA1980-036) 4.CB.3

(IUPAC: divanadium(III) titanium pentaoxide) # Berezanskite (milarite: IMA1996-041) 9.CM.0

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Bergenite Bergenite is a rare uranyl phosphate of the more specific phosphuranylite group. The phosphuranylite-type sheet in bergenite is a new isomer of the group, with the uranyl phosphate tetrahedra varying in an up-up-down, same-same-opposite (uuduudSSO ...

(phosphuranylite: 1959) 8.EC.4

# Bergslagite (gadolinite: IMA1983-021) 8.BA.1

(IUPAC: calcium beryllium hydro arsenate) #

Berlinite Berlinite (aluminium phosphate, chemical formula AlPO4 or Al(PO4)) is a rare high-temperature hydrothermal or metasomatic phosphate mineral. It has the same crystal structure as quartz with a low temperature polytype isostructural with α–quart ...

(quartz: 1868) 8.AA.0

(IUPAC: aluminium phosphate) # Bermanite (arthurite: 1936) 8.DC.2

(IUPAC: manganese(II) dimanganese(III) dihydro diphosphate tetrahydrate) # Bernalite (perovskite, söhngeite: IMA1991-032) 4.FC.0

(IUPAC: iron trihydroxide) # Bernardite (IMA1987-052) 2.HD.5

(IUPAC: thallium octasulfa pentarsenide) # Bernarlottiite (IMA2013-133) 2.

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(Pb₁₂(As₁₀Sb₆)S₃₆) #

Berndtite Tin(IV) sulfide is a compound with the formula . The compound crystallizes in the cadmium iodide motif, with the Sn(IV) situated in "octahedral holes' defined by six sulfide centers. It occurs naturally as the rare mineral berndtite. It is useful ...

(melonite: IMA1968 s.p., 1966) 2.EA.2

(IUPAC: tin(IV) sulfide) # Berryite (meneghinite: IMA1965-013) 2.HB.20

(Cu₃Ag₂Pb₃Bi₇S₁₆) # Berthierine (serpentine: 1832) 9.ED.1

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Berthierite Berthierite is a mineral, a sulfide of iron and antimony with formula FeSb2S4. It is steel grey in colour with a metallic lustre which can be covered by an iridescent tarnish. Because of its appearance it is often mistaken for stibnite. It wa ...

(berthierite: 1827) 2.HA.2

(IUPAC: iron tetrasulfa diantimonide) # Bertossaite (carminite: IMA1965-038) 8.BH.2

(IUPAC: dilithium calcium tetraluminium tetrahydro tetraphosphate) #

Bertrandite Bertrandite is a beryllium sorosilicate hydroxide mineral with composition: Be4Si2O7(OH)2. Bertrandite is a colorless to pale yellow orthorhombic mineral with a hardness of 6-7. It is commonly found in beryllium rich pegmatites and is in part an ...

(Y: 1883) 9.BD.0

(IUPAC: tetraberyllium heptaoxodisilicate dihydroxyl) #

Beryl Beryl ( ) is a mineral composed of beryllium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Be3Al2Si6O18. Well-known varieties of beryl include emerald and aquamarine. Naturally occurring, hexagonal crystals of beryl can be up to several ...

(beryl: 1798) 9.CJ.0

# Beryllite (Y: 1954) 9.AE.0

(IUPAC: triberyllium tetraoxosilicate dihydroxyl monohydrate) #

Beryllonite Beryllonite is a rare sodium beryllium phosphate mineral with formula NaBePO4. The tabular to prismatic monoclinic crystals vary from colorless to white or pale yellowish, and are transparent with a vitreous luster. Twinning is common and occurs ...

(beryllonite: 1888) 8.AA.1

(IUPAC: sodium beryllium phosphate) #

Berzelianite Berzelianite is a rare copper selenide mineral with the formula Cu2 Se. It occurs as thin dendritic crusts or as fine-grained inclusions. It crystallizes in the isometric system, unlike its dimorph, bellidoite, which crystallizes in the tetrago ...

(Y: 1832) 2.BA.2

( (x ≈ 0.12)) # Berzeliite (garnet: 1840) 8.AC.2

(IUPAC: (sodium dicalcium) dimagnesium triarsenate) # Beshtauite (IMA2012-051) 7.

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(IUPAC: diammonium uranyl disulfate dihydrate)
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domeykite Domeykite is a copper arsenide mineral, Cu3As. It crystallizes in the isometric system, although crystals are very rare. It typically forms as irregular masses or botryoidal forms. It is an opaque, white to gray (weathers brassy) metallic mineral ...

-β, for beta-fergusonite series see

fergusonite Fergusonite is a mineral comprising a complex oxide of various rare-earth elements. The general chemical formula of fergusonite is (Y,REE)NbO4, where REE = rare-earth elements in solid solution with Y. Yttrium is usually dominant (the mineral in ...

-beta series, for beta-sulfur see

sulfur Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formul ...

and for beta-roselite see

roselite Roselite is a rare arsenate mineral with chemical formula: . It was first described in 1825 for an occurrence in the Rappold mines of Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany and named by Armand Lévy after German mineralogist Gustav Rose. It occurs in coba ...

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Bettertonite Bettertonite is a mineral of the arsenate category, named after John Betterton. He is a museum geologist and mineralogist at Haslemere Educational Museum in Surrey, England. Bettertonite is a white arsenate mineral with a formula of l6(AsO4)3(OH ...

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(IUPAC: hexaluminium nonahydro triarsenate pentawater undecahydrate) # Betzite (cancrinite: IMA2021-037

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Beudantite Beudandite is a secondary mineral occurring in the oxidized zones of polymetallic deposits. It is a lead, iron, arsenate, sulfate with endmember formula: PbFe3(OH)6SO4AsO4. Beudantite is in a subgroup of the alunite group. It is the arsenate a ...

(alunite, beudantite: IMA1987 s.p., 1826 Rd) 8.BL.0

(IUPAC: palladium triiron(III) hexahydro arsenate sulfate) # Beusite 8.AB.20
(IUPAC: M²⁺ dimanganese(II) diphosphate) ##Beusite (graftonite: IMA1968-012) 8.AB.2

##Beusite-(Ca) (graftonite: IMA2017-051) 8.AB.2

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(IUPAC: calcium dibismuth dioxo dicarbonate) # Bezsmertnovite (IMA1979-014) 2.BA.8

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(IUPAC: dibarium (titanium vanadium) oxofluoro di(pentaoxodiarsenate)) # Bianchite (hexahydrite: 1930) 7.CB.2

(IUPAC: zinc sulfate hexahydrate) # Bicapite (polyoxometalate: IMA2018-048) 8.

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Bicchulite Bicchulite has an ideal chemical formula of , which was formularized from the hydrothermal synthesis of synthetic gehlenite (). Also, bicchulite was sighted in the mines of Japan with related minerals. This sodalite-type structured bicchulite has ...

(sodalite: IMA1973-006) 9.FB.1

# Bideauxite (IMA1969-038) 3.DB.2

(IUPAC: silver dilead difluoride trichloride) #

Bieberite Bieberite (CoSO4 · 7H2O) is a pinkish red colored sulfate mineral high in cobalt content. The name is derived from the type locality at the copper deposit in Bieber, Hesse, Germany. It has been described and reported as far back as the 1700s.Sage ...

(melanterite: 1845) 7.CB.3

(IUPAC: cobalt sulfate heptahydrate) #

Biehlite Biehlite is an exceptionally rare mineral, an antimony arsenic bearing molybdate with formula . It comes from Tsumeb , nickname = , settlement_type = City , motto = ''Glück Auf'' (German for ''Good luck'') ...

(IMA1999-019a) 4.DB.6

(IUPAC: di((antimony,arsenic) oxide) molybdate) # Bigcreekite (IMA1999-015) 9.DF.3

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(IUPAC: barium pentaoxo disilicate tetrahydrate) #

Bijvoetite-(Y) Bijvoetite-(Y) is a very rare rare-earth and uranium mineralDeliens, M., and Piret, P., 1982. Bijvoetite et lepersonnite, carbonates hydrates d'uranyle et des terres rares de Shinkolobwe, Zaïre. Canadian Mineralogist 20, 231-238 with the formula ...

(IMA1981-035) 5.EB.2

# Bikitaite (zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1997 s.p., 1957) 9.GD.5

(IUPAC: lithium hexaoxo aluminodisilicate monohydrate) # Bilibinskite (IMA1977-024) 2.BA.8

(IUPAC: lead trigold dicopper ditelluride) #

Bílinite Bílinite (Fe2+Fe23+(SO4)·22H2O) is an iron sulfate mineral. It is a product of the oxidation of pyrite in water. It is an acidic mineral that has a pH of less than 3 and is harmful to the environment when it comes from acid rock drainage (Kei ...

(halotrichite: 1914) 7.CB.8

(IUPAC: iron(II) diiron(III) tetrasulfate docosahydrate) #

Billietite Billietite is an uncommon mineral of uranium that contains barium. It has the chemical formula: Ba(UO2)6O4(OH)6•8H2O. It usually occurs as clear yellow orthorhombic In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 crystal ...

(Y: 1947) 4.GB.1

(IUPAC: barium hexauranyl hexahydro tetraoxide octahydrate) # Billingsleyite (IMA1967-012) 2.KB.0

(IUPAC: heptasilver hexasulfa arsenide) # Billwiseite (IMA2010-053) 4.

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(IUPAC: pentaantimony(III) triniobium tungsten octadecaoxide) # Bimbowrieite (dufrénite: IMA2020-006) 8.

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Bindheimite __TOC__ B Ba # Babánekite (vivianite: IMA2012-007) 8.CE o o(IUPAC: tricopper diarsenate octahydrate) #Babefphite (IMA1966-003) 8.BA.1

^Q (pyrochlore: IMA2013 s.p., IMA2010 s.p., 1800) 4.DH.2

Note: possibly oxyplumboroméite. #(

Biotite Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula . It is primarily a solid-solution series between the iron- endmember annite, and the magnesium-endmember phlogopite; more alum ...

, mica series (Y: 1963) 9.EC

/small>) # Biphosphammite (biphosphammite: 1870) 8.AD.1

(IUPAC: ammonium dihydrogen phosphate) # Biraite-(Ce) (IMA2003-037) 9.BE.9

(IUPAC: dicerium iron(II) heptaoxydisilicate carbonate) # Birchite (IMA2006-048) 8.DB.7

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(IUPAC: dicadmium dicopper diphosphate sulfate pentahydrate) # Biringuccite (IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 6.EC.0

(IUPAC: disodium octaoxo hydro pentaborate monohydrate) #

Birnessite Birnessite (nominally MnO2.''n''H2O) is a hydrous manganese dioxide mineral with a chemical formula of Na0.7Ca0.3Mn7O14·2.8H2O. It is the main manganese mineral species at the Earth's surface, and commonly occurs as fine-grained, poorly crystall ...

(Y: 1956) 4.FL.4

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Bischofite Bischofite is a hydrous magnesium chloride mineral with formula MgCl2·6H2O. It belongs to halides and is a sea salt concentrate. It contains many macro- and micro-elements vital for human health, in much higher concentrations than can be found ...

(Y: 1877) 3.BB.1

(IUPAC: magnesium dichloride hexahydrate) #

Bismite Bismite is a bismuth oxide mineral, bismuth trioxide or Bi2O3. It is a monoclinic mineral, but the typical form of occurrence is massive and clay-like with no macroscopic crystals. The color varies from green to yellow. It has a Mohs hardness o ...

(Y: 1868) 4.CB.6

(IUPAC: dibismuth trioxide) #

Bismoclite Bismoclite is a bismuth oxohalide mineral with formula BiOCl. It is the naturally occurring form of bismuth oxychloride. The name was derived from its chemical constituents. It is a secondary bismuth mineral first thought to be composed of bismut ...

(matlockite: 1935) 3.DC.2

(IUPAC: bismuth oxychloride) #

Bismuth Bismuth is a chemical element with the symbol Bi and atomic number 83. It is a post-transition metal and one of the pnictogens, with chemical properties resembling its lighter group 15 siblings arsenic and antimony. Elemental bismuth occurs ...

(arsenic: 1546) 1.CA.0

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Bismuthinite Bismuthinite is a mineral consisting of bismuth sulfide ( Bi2 S3). It is an important ore for bismuth. The crystals are steel-grey to off-white with a metallic luster. It is soft enough to be scratched with a fingernail and rather dense. Bism ...

(stibnite: 1832) 2.DB.0

(IUPAC: dibismuth trisulfide) #

Bismutite Bismutite or bismuthite is a bismuth carbonate mineral with formula Bi2(CO3)O2 ( bismuth subcarbonate). Bismutite occurs as an oxidation product of other bismuth minerals such as bismuthinite and native bismuth in hydrothermal veins and pegmatite ...

(bismutite: 1841) 5.BE.2

(IUPAC: dibismuth dioxo carbonate) # Bismutocolumbite (cervantite: IMA1991-003) 4.DE.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-688.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bismutocolumbite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bismutocolumbite.pdf
(IUPAC: bismuth niobium tetraoxide) # Bismutoferrite (kaolinite: 1871) 9.ED.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-667.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bismutoferrite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bismutoferrite.pdf
(IUPAC: diiron(III) bismuth di(tetraoxosilicate) hydroxyl) # Bismutohauchecornite (hauchecornite: IMA1978-F) 2.BB.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-658.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bismutohauchecornite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bismutohauchecornite.pdf
(IUPAC: nonanickel dibismuth octasulfide) #

Bismutostibiconite Roméite is a calcium antimonate mineral with the chemical formula . It is a honey-yellow mineral crystallizing in the hexoctahedral crystal system. It has a Mohs hardness of 5.5-6.0. It occurs in Algeria, Australia, Brazil, China, Europe, ...

^Q (pyrochlore: IMA2013 s.p., IMA2010 s.p., IMA1981-065, 1983) 4.DH.20 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-659.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bismutostibiconite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bismutostibiconite.pdf
Note: possibly bismutoroméite. # Bismutotantalite (cervantite: 1929) 4.DE.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-663.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bismutotantalite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bismutotantalite.pdf
(IUPAC: bismuth tantalum tetraoxide) # Bitikleite (garnet: IMA2009-052) 4.0 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-40023.html o o
(IUPAC: tricalcium (tin antimony) tri(aluminium tetraoxide)) #

Bityite Bityite is considered a rare mineral, and it is an endmember to the margarite mica sub-group found within the phyllosilicate group. The mineral was first described by Antoine François Alfred Lacroix in 1908, and later its chemical composition was ...

(mica: IMA1998 s.p., 1908) 9.EC.35 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-689.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bityite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bityite.pdf#

Bixbyite Bixbyite is a manganese iron oxide mineral with chemical formula: (Mn,Fe)2O3. The iron/manganese ratio is quite variable and many specimens have almost no iron. It is a metallic dark black with a Mohs hardness of 6.0 - 6.5. It is a somewhat rare ...

(bixbyite) 4.CB.10 ##Bixbyite-(Fe) (bixbyite: IMA21-H) 4.CB.10 ttps://www.mindat.org/min-55700.html o o##Bixbyite-(Mn) (bixbyite: IMA21-H, 1897) 4.CB.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-691.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bixbyite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bixbyite.pdf
(IUPAC: dimanganese(III) trioxide) # Bjarebyite (bjarebyite: IMA1972-022) 8.BH.20 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-692.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bjarebyite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bjarebyite.pdf
(IUPAC: barium dimanganese(II) dialuminium trihydro triphosphate) # Blakeite^Q (tellurite: 1941) 4.JM.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-693.html o o# Blatonite (IMA1997-025) 5.EB.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-6826.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Blatonite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/blatonite.pdf
(IUPAC: uranyl carbonate monohydrate) # Blatterite (Y: IMA1984-038) 6.AB.40 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-694.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Blatterite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/blatterite.pdf# Bleasdaleite (IMA1998-003a) 8.DK.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-7039.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bleasdaleite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bleasdaleite.pdf# Blixite (IMA1962 s.p., 1958) 3.DC.50 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-696.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Blixite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/blixite.pdf
(IUPAC: octalead pentaoxo dihydro tetrachloride) #

Blödite Blödite or bloedite is a hydrated sodium magnesium sulfate mineral with formula: Na2Mg(SO4)2·4H2O. The mineral is clear to yellow in color often darkened by inclusions and forms monoclinic crystals. Blödite was first described in 1821 for an ...

(IMA1982 s.p., 1821) 7.CC.50 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-695.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Blodite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/blodite.pdf
(IUPAC: disodium magnesium disulfate tetrahydrate) # Blossite (IMA1986-002) 8.FA.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-697.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Blossite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/blossite.pdf
(IUPAC: dicopper heptaoxodivanadate(V)) #

Bluebellite Bluebellite is a mineral discovered in 2013 in the Blue Bell Mine in the Mojave Desert, California at the same time as the discovery of mojaveite. This mineral was named after its locality, since the Blue Bell Mine claims most of the surrounding ...

Böhmite Boehmite or böhmite is an aluminium oxide hydroxide (γ-AlO(OH)) mineral, a component of the aluminium ore bauxite. It is dimorphous with diaspore. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic dipyramidal system and is typically massive in habit. It i ...

(lepidocrocite: 1927) 4.FE.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-707.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boehmite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bohmite.pdf
(IUPAC: hydroaluminium oxide) # Bohseite (bavenite: IMA2014-H, IMA2010-026) 9.D?. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-40562.html o o# Bohuslavite (IMA2018-074a) 8.0 ttps://www.mindat.org/min-53418.html o o# Bokite (straczekite: IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 4.HE.20 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-709.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bokite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bokite.pdf# Bojarite (IMA2020-037) ttps://www.mindat.org/min-55099.html o o#

Boleite Boleite is a complex halide mineral with formula: KPb26Ag9Cu24(OH)48Cl62. It was first described in 1891 as an oxychloride mineral. It is an isometric mineral which forms in deep-blue cubes. There are numerous minerals related to boleite, such a ...

(Y: 1891) 3.DB.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-712.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boleite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/boleite.pdf
(KAg₉Pb₂₆Cu₂₄Cl₆₂(OH)₄₈) # Bolivarite^Q (Y: 1921) 8.DF.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-713.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bolivarite.shtml o
Note: possibly a variety of evansite. # Bolotinaite (IMA2021-088) #

Boltwoodite Boltwoodite is a hydrated potassium uranyl silicate mineral with formula HK(UO2)(SiO4)·1.5(H2O). It is formed from the oxidation and alteration of primary uranium ores. It takes the form of a crust on some sandstones that bear uranium. These crus ...

(Y: 1956) 9.AK.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-716.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boltwoodite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/boltwoodite.pdf
(IUPAC: (kalium,sodium) uranyl hydroxosilicate (1.5)hydrate) #

Bonaccordite Bonaccordite is a rare mineral discovered in 1974. Its chemical formula is Ni2FeBO5 and it is a mineral of the ludwigite group. It usually crystallizes in long, cylindrical prisms that form within another source. It is named after the area of Bon ...

(ludwigite: IMA1974-019) 6.AB.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-717.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bonaccordite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bonaccordite.pdf
(IUPAC: dinickel iron(III) dioxoborate) # Bonacinaite (phosphosiderite: IMA2018-056) 8.0 ttps://www.mindat.org/min-53152.html o o
(IUPAC: scandium arsenate dihydrate) # Bonattite (Y: 1957) 7.CB.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-718.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bonattite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bonattite.pdf
(IUPAC: copper sulfate trihydrate) # Bonazziite (IMA2013-141) 2.FA. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-46093.html o o
(IUPAC: tetrarsenic tetrasulfide) # Bonshtedtite (bradleyite: IMA1981-026a) 5.BF.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-719.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bonshtedtite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bonshtedtite.pdf
(IUPAC: trisodium iron(II) phosphate carbonate) #

Boothite Boothite is a very rare, naturally occurring mineral containing hydrated copper sulfate: Cu(SO4)·7H2O. It was discovered in the Leona Heights region near Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, C ...

(melanterite: 1903) 7.CB.35 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-720.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boothite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/boothite.pdf
(IUPAC: copper sulfate heptahydrate) #

Boracite Boracite is a magnesium borate mineral with formula: Mg3 B7 O13 Cl. It occurs as blue green, colorless, gray, yellow to white crystals in the orthorhombic - pyramidal crystal system. Boracite also shows pseudo-isometric cubical and octahedral for ...

(boracite: 1789) 6.GA.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-721.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boracite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/boracite.pdf
(IUPAC: trimagnesium chloro tridecaoxo heptaborate) # Boralsilite (IMA1996-029) 9.BD.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-6829.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boralsilite.shtml o #

Borax Borax is a salt (chemistry), salt (ionic compound), a hydration (chemistry), hydrated borate of sodium, with chemical formula often written . It is a colorless crystalline solid, that dissolves in water to make a base (chemistry), basic aqueo ...

(Y: old) 6.DA.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-722.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Borax.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/borax.pdf
(IUPAC: disodium tetrahydro pentaoxotetraborate octahydrate) # Borcarite (IMA1968 s.p., 1965) 6.DA.40 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-723.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Borcarite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/borcarite.pdf# Borisenkoite (lammerite-beta: IMA2015-113) 8.AB. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-47603.html o o
() # Borishanskiite (IMA1974-010) 2.AC.45c ttp://www.mindat.org/min-724.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Borishanskiite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/borishanskiite.pdf
(), (x = 0.0-0.2)) # Bornemanite (seidozerite, lamprophyllite: IMA1973-053) 9.BE.50 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-725.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bornemanite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bornemanite.pdf# Bornhardtite (spinel, linnaeite: 1955) 2.DA.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-726.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bornhardtite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bornhardtite.pdf
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Bornite Bornite, also known as peacock ore, is a sulfide mineral with chemical composition Cu5 Fe S4 that crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (pseudo-cubic). Appearance Bornite has a brown to copper-red color on fresh surfaces that tarnishes to v ...

(IMA1962 s.p., 1725) 2.BA.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-727.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bornite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bornite.pdf
(IUPAC: pentacopper iron tetrasulfide) #

Borocookeite The chlorites are the group of phyllosilicate minerals common in low-grade metamorphic rocks and in altered igneous rocks. Greenschist, formed by metamorphism of basalt or other low-silica volcanic rock, typically contains significant amounts ...

Botallackite Botallackite, chemical formula Cu2(OH)3Cl is a secondary copper mineral, named for its type locality at the Botallack Mine, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. It is polymorphous with atacamite, paratacamite and . Botallackite crystallises in the ...

(atacamite: 1865) 3.DA.10b ttp://www.mindat.org/min-732.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Botallackite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/botallackite.pdf
(IUPAC: dicopper trihydro chloride) #

Botryogen Botryogen is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula: MgFe3+(SO4)2(OH)·7H2O. It is also known as ''quetenite''. It crystallizes in the monoclinic prismatic system and typically occurs as vitreous bright yellow to red botryoidal to reni ...

(botryogen: 1815) 7.DC.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-733.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Botryogen.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/botryogen.pdf
(IUPAC: magnesium iron(III) hydro disulfate heptahydrate) # Bottinoite (IMA1991-029) 4.FH.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-735.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bottinoite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bottinoite.pdf
(IUPAC: nickel diantimony(V) dodecahydroxide hexahydrate) # Botuobinskite (crichtonite: IMA2018-143a) ttps://www.mindat.org/min-55114.html o o# Bouazzerite (IMA2005-042) 8.DH.60 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-28920.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bouazzerite.shtml o#

Boulangerite Boulangerite is an uncommon monoclinic orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral, lead antimony sulfide, formula Pb5Sb4S11. It was named in 1837 in honor of French mining engineer Charles Boulanger (1810–1849),http://www.mindat.org/min-738.html Mindat and ...

(Y: 1837) 2.HC.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-738.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boulangerite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/boulangerite.pdf
(IUPAC: pentalead undecasulfa tetraantimonide) #

Bournonite Bournonite is a sulfosalt mineral species, trithioantimoniate of lead and copper with the formula PbCuSbS3. It was first mentioned by Philip Rashleigh in 1797 as an ore of antimony and was more completely described in 1804 by French crystallo ...

(bournonite: 1805) 2.GA.50 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-741.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bournonite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bournonite.pdf
(IUPAC: copper lead trisulfa antimonide) # Bouškaite (IMA2018-055a) 7.0 ttps://www.mindat.org/min-53373.html o o
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Boussingaultite Boussingaultite is a rare ammonium magnesium hydrated sulfate mineral of the chemical formula: (NH4)2Mg(SO4)2 · 6 H2O. The formula of boussingaultite is that of Tutton's salts type. It was originally described from geothermal fields in Tuscany, ...

(picromerite: 1864) 7.CC.60 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-743.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boussingaultite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/boussingaultite.pdf
(IUPAC: diammonium magnesium disulfate hexahydrate) # Bounahasite (IMA2021-114) #

Bowieite Bowieite is a rhodium- iridium- platinum sulfide mineral (Rh,Ir,Pt)2S3, found in platinum-alloy nuggets from Goodnews Bay, Alaska Goodnews Bay ( esu, Mamterat) is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the ...

(bowieite: IMA1980-022) 2.DB.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-745.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bowieite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bowieite.pdf
(IUPAC: dirhodium trisulfide) # Bowlesite (cobaltite: IMA2019-079) 2.0 ttps://www.mindat.org/min-54040.html o o
(IUPAC: platinum sulfa stannide) # Boyleite (starkeyite: IMA1977-026) 7.CB.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-746.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Boyleite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/boyleite.pdf
(IUPAC: zinc sulfate tetrahydrate)

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# Braccoite (saneroite: IMA2013-093) 9.0 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-46006.html o o# Bracewellite ("O(OH)" group: IMA1967-035) 4.FD.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-748.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bracewellite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bracewellite.pdf
(IUPAC: hydrochromium oxide) # Brackebuschite (brackebuschite: 1880) 8.BG.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-749.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brackebuschite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brackebuschite.pdf
(IUPAC: dilead trimanganese hydro divanadate) # Bradaczekite (alluaudite: IMA2000-002) 8.AC.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-10382.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bradaczekite.shtml o
(NaCuCuCu₂(AsO₄)₃) # Bradleyite (bradleyite: 1941) 5.BF.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-750.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bradleyite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bradleyite.pdf
(IUPAC: trisodium magnesium phosphate carbonate) #

Braggite Braggite is a sulfide mineral of platinum, palladium and nickel with chemical formula: (Pt, Pd, Ni)S. It is a dense (specific gravity of 10), steel grey, opaque mineral which crystallizes in the tetragonal crystal system. It is the central member ...

(Y: 1932) 2.CC.35a ttp://www.mindat.org/min-751.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Braggite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/braggite.pdf
(IUPAC: platinum sulfide) # Braithwaiteite (IMA2006-050) 8.DB.75 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-31499.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Braithwaiteite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/braithwaiteite.pdf# Braitschite-(Ce) (IMA1967-029) 6.H0.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-752.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Braitschite-%28Ce%29.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/braitschite-(Ce).pdf#(

Brammallite Brammallite is a sodium rich analogue of illite. First described in 1943 for an occurrence in Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, Wales, it was named for British geologist and mineralogist Alfred Brammall (1879–1954). Believed to be a degradation prod ...

Braunerite Braunerite is a hydrous uranyl carbonate mineral discovered by Jakub Plášil of the Institute of Physics at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and colleagues in the Svornost mine in the Jáchymov ore district, Western Bohemia, Czech R ...

(IMA2015-123) 5.0 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-47780.html o o
(IUPAC: dipotassium calcium uranyl tricarbonate hexahydrate) #

Braunite Braunite is a silicate mineral containing both di- and tri- valent manganese with the chemical formula: Mn2+Mn3+6 SiO4 Common impurities include iron, calcium, boron, barium, titanium, aluminium, and magnesium. Braunite forms grey/black tetragon ...

(braunite: 1828) 9.AG.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-757.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Braunite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/braunite.pdf
(IUPAC: manganese(II) hexamanganese(III) octaoxy tetraoxosilicate) #

Brazilianite Brazilianite, whose name derives from its country of origin, Brazil, is a typically yellow-green phosphate mineral, most commonly found in phosphate-rich pegmatites. It occurs in the form of perfect crystals grouped in druses, in pegmatites, and ...

(Y: 1945) 8.BK.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-760.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brazilianite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brazilianite.pdf
(IUPAC: sodium trialuminium tetrahydro diphosphate) # Bredigite (Y: 1948) 9.AD.20 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-762.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bredigite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bredigite.pdf
(IUPAC: heptacalcium magnesium tetra(tetraoxosilicate)) #

Breithauptite Breithauptite is a nickel antimonide mineral with the simple formula NiSb. Breithauptite is a metallic opaque copper-red mineral crystallizing in the hexagonal - dihexagonal dipyramidal crystal system. It is typically massive to reniform in habit, ...

(nickeline: 1833) 2.CC.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-763.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Breithauptite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/breithauptite.pdf
(IUPAC: nickel antimonide) # Brendelite (IMA1997-001) 8.BM.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-6831.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brendelite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brendelite.pdf# Brenkite (IMA1977-036) 5.BC.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-764.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brenkite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brenkite.pdf
(IUPAC: dicalcium difluoro carbonate) #

Brewsterite Brewsterite is the name of a series of tectosilicate minerals of the zeolite group. Prior to 1997, brewsterite was recognized as a mineral species, but a reclassification in 1997 by the International Mineralogical Association changed it to a ser ...

9.GE.20 ##Brewsterite-Ba (zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1997 s.p., 1993) 9.GE.20 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-6832.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brewsterite-Ba.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brewsterite-(Ba).pdf##Brewsterite-Sr (zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1997 s.p., 1822) 9.GE.20 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-6833.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brewsterite-Sr.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brewsterite-(Sr).pdf#

Breyite Breyite is a high pressure calcium silicate mineral (CaSiO3) found in diamond inclusions. It is the second most abundant inclusion after ferropericlase, for diamonds with a deep Earth origin. Its occurrence can also indicate the host diamond's su ...

(IMA2018-062) 9.0 ttps://www.mindat.org/min-53167.html o o
(IUPAC: tricalcium nonaoxotrisilicate) #

Brezinaite Brezinaite, discovered in 1969, is a rare mineral composed of chromium and sulfur. It is found in meteorites, such as the Tucson Ring meteorite (Irwin-Ainsa meteorite), its type locality. It was also found in the New Baltimore meteorite and the Si ...

(IMA1969-004) 2.DA.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-768.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brezinaite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brezinaite.pdf
(IUPAC: trichromium tetrasulfide) #

Brianite Brianite is a phosphate mineral with the chemical formula Na2CaMg(PO4)2. It was first identified in an iron meteorite. This mineral is named after Brian Harold Mason (1917–2009), a pioneer in meteoritics. It was first reported from the Dayto ...

(aphthitalite: IMA1966-030) 8.AC.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-771.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brianite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brianite.pdf
(IUPAC: disodium calcium magnesium diphosphate) # Brianroulstonite (IMA1996-009) 6.EC.35 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-6834.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brianroulstonite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brianroulstonite.pdf#

Brianyoungite Brianyoungite is a secondary zinc carbonate mineral. The Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) classifies it as a carbonate with the formula , but sulfate groups SO ...

(IMA1991-053) 5.BF.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-772.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brianyoungite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brianyoungite.pdf
(IUPAC: trizinc tetrahydro carbonate) #

Briartite Briartite is an opaque iron-grey metallic sulfide mineral, with traces of Ga and Sn, found as inclusions in other germanium-gallium-bearing sulfides. It was discovered at the Prince Léopold Mine, Kipushi, Shaba, Congo (Léopoldville) in 1965 b ...

(stannite: IMA1965-018) 2.KA.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-773.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Briartite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/briartite.pdf
(IUPAC: dicopper iron germanium tetrasulfide) # Bridgesite-(Ce) (IMA2019-034) 7.0 ttps://www.mindat.org/min-54033.html o o#

Bridgmanite Silicate perovskite is either (the magnesium end-member is called bridgmanite) or (calcium silicate known as davemaoite) when arranged in a perovskite structure. Silicate perovskites are not stable at Earth's surface, and mainly exist in the low ...

(perovskite: IMA2014-017) 9.A0. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-45900.html o o
(IUPAC: magnesium trioxosilicate) # Brindleyite (serpentine: IMA1975-009a) 9.ED.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-774.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brindleyite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brindleyite.pdf# Brinrobertsite (corrensite: IMA1997-040) 9.EC.60 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-11001.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brinrobertsite.shtml o#

Britholite Britholite-(Ce) is a rare radioactive mineral with the chemical formula (Ce,Ca)(SiO)OH. It comes in a variety of different colors. Its type locality is Naujakasik (Naajakasik), Tunulliarfik Fjord, Ilímaussaq complex, Narsaq, Kujalleq, Green ...

09.AH.25 ##Britholite-(Ce) (britholite, apatite: IMA1987 s.p., 1901) 9.AH.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-775.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Britholite-%28Ce%29.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/britholite-(Ce).pdf##Britholite-(Y) (britholite, apatite: IMA1966 s.p., 1938) 9.AH.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-776.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Britholite-%28Y%29.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/britholite-(Y).pdf# Britvinite (molybdophyllite: IMA2006-031) 9.EG.70 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-30905.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Britvinite.shtml o# Brizziite (corundum: IMA1993-044) 4.CB.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-778.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brizziite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brizziite.pdf
(IUPAC: sodium antimonite) #

Brochantite Brochantite is a sulfate mineral, one of a number of cupric sulfates. Its chemical formula is Cu4SO4(OH)6. Formed in arid climates or in rapidly oxidizing copper sulfide deposits, it was named by Armand Lévy for his fellow Frenchman, geologi ...

(brochantite: IMA1980 s.p., 1824) 7.BB.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-779.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brochantite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brochantite.pdf
(IUPAC: tetracopper hexahydro sulfate) #

Brockite Brockite is a rare earth phosphate mineral with formula: (Ca,Th,Ce)PO4·H2O. It crystallizes in the hexagonal system in the chiral space group 180 or its enantiomorph 181. It is typically granular to massive with only rare occurrence of stubby cry ...

(rhabdophane: IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 8.CJ.45 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-780.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brockite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brockite.pdf# Brodtkorbite (IMA1999-023) 2.BD.55 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-7090.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brodtkorbite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brodtkorbite.pdf
(IUPAC: dicopper mercury diselenide) #

Bromargyrite Bromyrite or bromargyrite is a natural mineral form of silver bromide found mainly in Mexico and Chile. Hardness is 1.5 to 2. Related are chlorargyrite and iodyrite Iodyrite or iodargyrite is a natural mineral form of silver iodide. Related ...

(IMA1962 s.p., 1849) 3.AA.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-783.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bromargyrite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bromargyrite.pdf
(IUPAC: silver bromide) # Bromellite (Y: 1925) 4.AB.20 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-784.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bromellite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bromellite.pdf
(IUPAC: beryllium(II) oxide) # Brontesite (IMA2008-039) 3.AA. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-39208.html o ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brontesite.pdf
(IUPAC: triammonium lead pentachloride) #

Brookite Brookite is the orthorhombic variant of titanium dioxide (TiO2), which occurs in four known natural polymorphic forms (minerals with the same composition but different structure). The other three of these forms are akaogiite (monoclinic), anatas ...

(Y: 1825) 4.DD.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-787.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brookite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brockite.pdf
(IUPAC: titanium dioxide) # Browneite (sphalerite: IMA2012-008) 2.00. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-42751.html o o
(IUPAC: manganese sulfide) #

Brownleeite Brownleeite is a silicide mineral with chemical formula MnSi. It was discovered by researchers of the Johnson Space Center in Houston while analyzing the Pi Puppid particle shower of the comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup. The only other known natural ...

(silicide: IMA2008-011) 1.BB. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-36014.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brownleeite.shtml o
(IUPAC: manganese silicide) #

Brownmillerite Brownmillerite is a rare oxide mineral with chemical formula . It is named for Lorrin Thomas Brownmiller (1902–1990), chief chemist of the Alpha Portland Cement Company, Easton, Pennsylvania. Discovery and occurrence The chemical compound ...

(brownmillerite, perovskite: IMA1963-017) 4.AC.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-790.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brownmillerite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brodtkorbite.pdf
(IUPAC: dicalcium iron(III) aluminium pentaoxide) #

Brucite Brucite is the mineral form of magnesium hydroxide, with the chemical formula Mg( OH)2. It is a common alteration product of periclase in marble; a low-temperature hydrothermal vein mineral in metamorphosed limestones and chlorite schists; and ...

(brucite: 1818) 4.FE.05 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-820.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brucite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brucite.pdf
(IUPAC: magnesium dihydroxide) # Brüggenite (IMA1970-040) 4.KC.10 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-769.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Br%FCggenite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bruggenite.pdf
(IUPAC: calcium diiodate monohydrate) # Brugnatellite^Q (hydrotalcite: 1909) 5.DA.45 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-791.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brugnatellite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brugnatellite.pdf# Brumadoite (tellurium oxysalt: IMA2008-028) 7.C?. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-38827.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brumadoite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brumadoite.pdf
(IUPAC: tricopper tetrahydro (tetraoxo tellurium(VI)) pentahydrate) # Brunogeierite (spinel, ulvöspinel: IMA1972-004 Rd) 9.AC.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-792.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brunogeierite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brunogeierite.pdf
(IUPAC: diiron(II) tetraoxogermanate(IV)) #

Brushite Brushite is a phosphate mineral with the chemical formula . Crystals of the pure compound belong to the monoclinic space group C2/c and are colorless.ttp://www.mindat.org/min-793.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Brushite.shtml ttps://web.archive.org/web/20160304052347/http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/brushite.pdf
(IUPAC: calcium hydroxophosphate dihydrate) # Bubnovaite (aphthitalite: IMA2014-108) 7.AD. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-46614.html o o
(IUPAC: dipotassium octasodium calcium hexasulfate) # Buchwaldite (IMA1975-041) 8.AD.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-794.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Buchwaldite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/buchwaldite.pdf
(IUPAC: sodium calcium phosphate) # Buckhornite (buckhornite: IMA1988-022) 2.HB.20b ttp://www.mindat.org/min-795.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Buckhornite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/buckhornite.pdf
(IUPAC: (dilead bismuth trisulfide)(gold ditelluride)) #

Buddingtonite Buddingtonite is an ammonium feldspar with formula: NH4AlSi3O8 (note: some sources add 0.5H2O to the formula). It forms by hydrothermal alteration of primary feldspar minerals. It is an indicator of possible gold and silver deposits, as they can ...

(feldspar: IMA1963-001) 9.FA.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-796.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Buddingtonite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/buddingtonite.pdf# Bukovite (IMA1970-029) 2.BD.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-797.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bukovite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bukovite.pdf
(IUPAC: tetracopper dithallium tetraselenide) #

Bukovskýite Bukovskyite (also known as "''clay of Kutná Hora''") is an iron arsenate sulfate mineral with formula: Fe2(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)·7H2O which forms nodules with a reniform (kidney-shaped) surface. Under a microscope, these nodules appear as a collect ...

(IMA1967-022) 8.DB.40 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-798.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bukovskyite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bukovskyite.pdf
(IUPAC: diiron(III) hydro arsenate sulfate heptahydrate) # Bulachite (IMA1982-081) 8.DE.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-799.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bulachite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bulachite.pdf
(IUPAC: dialuminium trihydro arsenate trihydrate) # Bulgakite (astrophyllite, astrophyllite: IMA2014-041) 9.DC. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-46415.html o o#

Bultfonteinite Bultfonteinite, originally dutoitspanite, is a pink to colorless mineral with chemical formula Ca2SiO2(OH,F)4. It was discovered in 1903 or 1904 in the Bultfontein mine in South Africa, for which the mineral is named, and described in 1932. Descri ...

(spurrite-afwillite: 1932) 9.AG.80 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-800.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bultfonteinite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bultfonteinite.pdf# Bunnoite (IMA2014-054) 9.0 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-46195.html o o#

Bunsenite Bunsenite is the naturally occurring form of nickel(II) oxide, NiO. It occurs as rare dark green crystal coatings. It crystallizes in the cubic crystal system and occurs as well formed cubic, octahedral and dodecahedral crystals. It is a member of ...

(rocksalt, periclase: 1868) 4.AB.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-801.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Bunsenite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bunsenite.pdf
(IUPAC: nickel(II) oxide) # Burangaite (dufrenite: IMA1976-013) 8.DK.15 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-802.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Burangaite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burangaite.pdf
(IUPAC: sodium iron(II) pentaluminium hexahydro tetraphosphate dihydrate) # Burbankite (burbankite: 1953) 5.AC.30 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-803.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Burbankite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burbankite.pdf# Burckhardtite (IMA1976-052) 9.EC.70 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-804.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Burckhardtite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burckhardtite.pdf# Burgessite (burgessite: IMA2007-055) 8.CB.60 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-35833.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Burgessite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burgessite.pdf
(IUPAC: dicobalt tetrawater di(hydroxoarsenate) water) # Burkeite (Y: 1921) 7.BD.25 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-805.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Burkeite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burkeite.pdf
(IUPAC: tetrasodium sulfate carbonate) # Burnettite (pyroxene: IMA2013-054) 9.00. ttp://www.mindat.org/min-43933.html o o
(CaVAlSiO₆) # Burnsite (IMA2000-050) 4.JG.35 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-11157.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Burnsite.shtml ttp://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burnsite.pdf# Burovaite-Ca (labuntsovite: IMA2008-001) 9.CE.30c ttp://www.mindat.org/min-35892.html ttp://www.webmineral.com/data/Burovaite-Ca.shtml o# Burpalite (wohlerite: IMA1988-036) 9.BE.17 ttp://www.mindat.org/min-806.html[http://www.webmineral.com/data/Burpalite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burpalite.pdf] #Burroite (decavanadate: IMA2016-079) 4.H?. [http://www.mindat.org/min-50785.html] o o#Burtite (perovskite, schoenfliesite: IMA1980-078) 4.FC.10 [http://www.mindat.org/min-808.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Burtite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/burtite.pdf]
(IUPAC: calcium tin(IV) hexahydroxide) #Buryatite (ettringite: IMA2000-021) 7.DG.15 [http://www.mindat.org/min-11186.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Buryatite.shtml] o#Buseckite (wurtzite: IMA2011-070) 2.CB.45 [http://www.mindat.org/min-42371.html] o o#Buserite (IMA1970-024) 4.FL.35 [http://www.mindat.org/min-9779.html] o o
(IUPAC: tetrasodium tetradecamanganese heptacosaoxide henicosahydrate)
Note: it dehydrates to birnessite. #Bushmakinite (brackebuschite: IMA2001-031) 8.BG.05 [http://www.mindat.org/min-11002.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Bushmakinite.shtml] o#Bussenite (seidozerite, bafertisite: IMA2000-035) 9.BE.65 [http://www.mindat.org/min-11187.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Bussenite.shtml] o#Bussyite 9.EA. ##Bussyite-(Ce) (IMA2007-039) 9.EA.80 [http://www.mindat.org/min-32615.html] [http://webmineral.com/data/Bussyite-(Ce).shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bussyite-(Ce).pdf] ##Bussyite-(Y) (IMA2014-060) 9.EA. [http://www.mindat.org/min-46442.html] o[http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bussyite-(Y).pdf] #Bustamite (Y: 1826) 9.DG.05 [http://www.mindat.org/min-809.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Bustamite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bustamite.pdf] #Butianite (nuwaite: IMA2016-028) 2.0 [http://www.mindat.org/min-47863.html] o o#Butlerite (Y: 1928) 7.DC.10 [http://www.mindat.org/min-810.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Butlerite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/butlerite.pdf]
(IUPAC: iron(III) hydro sulfate dihydrate) #Bütschliite (Y: 1947) 5.AC.15 [http://www.mindat.org/min-821.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Butschliite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/butschliite.pdf]
(IUPAC: dipotassium calcium dicarbonate) #Buttgenbachite (connellite: 1925) 3.DA.25 [http://www.mindat.org/min-811.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Buttgenbachite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/buttgenbachite.pdf] #Byelorussite-(Ce) (joaquinite: IMA1988-042) 9.CE.25 [http://www.mindat.org/min-812.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Byelorussite-%28Ce%29.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/byelorussite-(Ce).pdf] #Bykovaite (IMA2003-044) 9.BE.55 [http://www.mindat.org/min-26447.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Bykovaite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bykovaite.pdf] #Byrudite (humite: IMA2013-045) 4.CA. [http://www.mindat.org/min-43917.html] o o#Bystrite (cancrinite-sodalite: IMA1990-008) 9.FB.05 [http://www.mindat.org/min-813.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Bystrite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bystrite.pdf] #Byströmite (tapiolite: 1952) 4.DB.10 [http://www.mindat.org/min-814.html] [http://www.webmineral.com/data/Bystromite.shtml] [http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/bystromite.pdf]
(IUPAC: magnesium diantimony(V) hexaoxide) #Bytízite (IMA2016-044) 2.0 [http://www.mindat.org/min-47927.html] o o
(IUPAC: tricopper antimony triselenide) #Byzantievite (IMA2009-001) 9.0 [http://www.mindat.org/min-37645.html] o o

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