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List of Minerals

Description

International Mineralogical Association (IMA) Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) approved list of minerals, names and abbreviations (Warr 2021).
Retrieved from RRUFF (Lafuente et al. 2015).

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 5763 minerals and their names, symbols (abbreviations) and chemistry.
Symbol, Name, Chemistry

References

Lafuente B, Downs RT, Yang H, Stone N (2015). “The power of databases: The RRUFF project.” In Armbruster T, Danisi RM (eds.), Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography, 1–30. Walter de Gruyter GmbH. doi:10.1515/9783110417104-003.

Warr LN (2021). “IMA-CNMNC approved mineral symbols.” Mineralogical Magazine, 1–30. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43.

See Also

IMA approved minerals on RRUFF

IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols, (Warr 2021)