Classification of organic minerals

List of IMA recognized minerals and groupings

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Some organic compounds are valid minerals, recognized by the CNMNC (IMA).

Nickel–Strunz classification −10- Organic compounds

Abbreviations:
- "*" – discredited (IMA/CNMNC status).
- "?" – questionable/doubtful (IMA/CNMNC status).
Nickel–Strunz code scheme: NN.XY.##x
- NN: Nickel–Strunz mineral class number
- X: Nickel–Strunz mineral division letter
- Y: Nickel–Strunz mineral family letter
- ##x: Nickel–Strunz mineral/group number, x add-on letter

Class: organic compounds

10.A Salts of organic acids
- 10.AA Formates, Acetates, etc.: 05 formicaite, 10 dashkovaite, 20 acetamide, 25 calclacite, 30 paceite, 35 hoganite
- 10.AB Oxalates: 05 humboldtine, 05 lindbergite; 10 glushinskite, 15 moolooite, 20 stepanovite, 25 minguzzite, 30 wheatleyite, 35 zhemchuzhnikovite, 40 weddellite, 45 whewellite, 50 caoxite, 55 oxammite, 60 natroxalate, 65 coskrenite-(Ce), 70 levinsonite-(Y), 75 zugshunstite-(Ce), 80 novgorodovaite
- 10.AC Benzene Salts: 05 mellite, 10 earlandite, 15 pigotite?
- 10.AD Cyanates: 05 julienite*, 10 kafehydrocyanite*
10.B Hydrocarbons
- 10.BA Hydrocarbons: 05 fichtelite, 10 hartite, 15 dinite*, 20 idrialite, 25 kratochvilite, 30 karpatite, 35 phylloretine?, 40 ravatite, 45 simonellite, 50 evenkite
10.C Miscellaneous organic minerals
- 10.C amber*
- 10.CA Miscellaneous organic materials: 05 refikite, 10 flagstaffite, 15 hoelite, 20 abelsonite, 25 kladnoite; 30 tinnunculite, 30 guanine; 35 urea, 40 uricite

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 2013-04-26.
Nickel, Ernest H.; Nichols, Monte C. (March 2009). "IMA-CNMNC List of Mineral Names" (PDF). IMA-CNMNC. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2009. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
Ferraiolo, Jim. "Nickel–Strunz (Version 10) Classification System". webmineral.com.
Mineralsystematik nach Strunz 9. Auflage von 2001 (aktuell)
Hr. Dr. Udo Neumann der Uni-Tuebingen (Systematik der Minerale)

v t e IMA–CNMNC / Nickel–Strunz IDs Mineral categories (classes, subclasses, divisions)
"Special cases" ("native elements and organic minerals")	"Native elements" (IDs 1) Organic minerals (IDs 10)
"Sulfides and oxides"	Sulfides (IDs 2.A–F) Sulfosalts; sulfarsenites, sulfantimonites, sulfbismuthites (IDs 2.G) Sulfosalts; sulfarsenates, sulfantimonates (IDs 2.K) Other sulfosalts (IDs 2.H–J and 2.L–M) Oxides (IDs 4.A–E, e.g. pyrochlore supergroup and corundum group) Hydroxides (IDs 4.F–G) Arsenates(IV), sulfates(IV) and iodates (IDs 4.J–K) Tellurium oxysalts Vanadium oxides (IDs 4.H)
"Evaporites and similars"	Carbonates (IDs 5.A–E) Nitrates (IDs 5.N) Borates (IDs 6) Halides (IDs 3)
"Mineral structures with tetrahedral units" (sulfate anion, phosphate anion, silicon, etc.)	Monomeric minerals (similar to nesosilicates) Sulfates(VI) (IDs 7.A–E) Thiosulphates (IDs 7.J) Chromates(VI) (IDs 7.F) Molybdates, wolframates, niobates(VI) (IDs 7.G–H) Phosphates(V) (IDs 8) Arsenates, vanadates(V) (IDs 8) Monomeric, isolated silicates (IDs 9.A) Germanates (IDs 9.J) Silicate frameworks, tectosilicates Zeolite frameworks, zeolite family (IDs 9.G) Other feldspathoids: nephelines (IDs 9.FA.05) Cancrinite-sodalite groups (IDs 9.FB.) Other tectosilicates (IDs 9.FA. and 9.FB.15, e.g. feldspars) Other silicate frameworks Cyclosilicates (IDs 9.C) Phyllosilicates (IDs 9.E, e.g. clays) Silica family (IDs 4.DA.) Inosilicates Single chain inosilicates (IDs 9.D, e.g. pyroxenes) Ribbon or multiple chain inosilicates (IDs 9.D, e.g. amphiboles) Other non monomeric minerals Unclassified silicates (IDs 9.H) Sorosilicates (IDs 9.B, e.g. epidote and seidozerite supergroups) Polymeric, isolated silicates (IDs 9.A, e.g. olivine and gadolinite supergroups) Other inorganic polymers (e.g. polyoxometalates; "polyphosphates", IDs 8.F)
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