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List of minerals This is a list of minerals for which there
are articles. Mineral variety names and mineraloids are to be listed after the valid minerals
for each letter. For a complete listing (about 4,700) of all
mineral names, see List of minerals (complete). Top
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Agate (variety of quartz) Alabaster (variety of gypsum)
Alexandrite (variety of chrysoberyl) Allingite (synonym of amber)
Alum Amazonite (variety of microcline)
Amber (fossilized resin) Amethyst (purple variety of quartz)
Ammolite (organic; also a gemstone) Amosite (asbestiform grunerite)
Anyolite (metamorphic rock - zoisite, ruby, and hornblende)
Antozonite (variety of fluorite) Aquamarine (light blue variety of beryl)
Argentite (high temperature form of acanthite) Asbestos (fibrous serpentine- or amphibole
minerals) Avalite (chromian variety of illite.)
Aventurine (variety of quartz) Top
Bauxite (aluminium ore) Beckerite (natural resin)
Bixbite (red gem variety of beryl) Top
Carnelian (variety of quartz) Chalcedony (cryptocrystalline variety of quartz)
Chrysoprase (green nickel bearing chalcedony) Chrysotile (group name - asbestiform serpentine)
Citrine (yellow variety of quartz) Cleveite
Coltan (short for minerals of the columbite group)
Crocidolite (asbestiform riebeckite) Cymophane (variety of chrysoberyl)
Top Delessite (magnesian chamosite)
Diatomite (diatomaceous earth) Top
Emerald (green gem variety of beryl) Top
Fassaite Variety of augite Ferricrete Iron oxide cemented soil or sediment
Top Gedanite (fossilized resin)
Glessite (natural resin) Top
Heliodor (greenish-yellow variety of beryl) Heliotrope (variety of chalcedony)
Hiddenite (variety of spodumene) Hyalite (variety of opal)
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Jade (tough, green mineral either jadeite or nephrite amphibole)
Jasper (variety of quartz) Jet (fossilised wood)
Top Keilhauite (variety of titanite)
Krantzite (natural resin) Kunzite (variety of spodumene)
Top Lapis lazuli (a rock consisting primarily
of lazurite, calcite and pyrite) Larimar (blue variety of pectolite)
Lechatelierite (fused quartz glass) Lignite (a type of coal)
Limonite -(a mineraloid ) Lodestone (a synonym of magnetite)
Lublinite variety of calcite Top
Magnesia Mariposite (variety of phengite/muscovite)
Meerschaum (variety of sepiolite) Menilite (variety of opal)
Milky quartz (a cloudy white quartz) Morganite (a pink beryl)
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Onyx (a monochromatic banded variety of chalcedony) Opal
Top Palagonite (basaltic volcanic glass)
Perlite (volcanic glass) Phosphorite (name given to impure, massive
apatite.) Plessite (mixture of kamacite and taenite)
Pitchblende (a massive impure form of uraninite) Pumicite (synonym of pumice)
Top Quartz
Quenstedtite Top
Rock crystal (quartz) Rose quartz
Roumanite (amber) Ruby (red gem corundum)
Top Sapphire (gem corundum of any color except
red, especially blue varieties) Sard (a variety of chalcedony/quartz)
Satinspar (a variety of Gypsum) Shungite (a lustrous black mineraloid)
Smoky quartz (a brown or black variety of quartz)
Soapstone (a rock) Spectrolite (a variety of labradorite)
Stantienite (a variety of amber) Top
Tanzanite (variety of Zoisite) Thulite (variety of Zoisite)
Travertine (form of calcium carbonate) Tsavorite (gem variety of grossularite garnet)
Top Ultramarine
Unakite, a rock composed of feldspar, epidote and quartz
Uralite alteration actinolite Top
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Top Xenotime
Xifengite Xonotlite
Top Ye'elimite
Yttrialite Yttrocerite
Yttrocolumbite Top