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Daftar mineral

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Mineral adalah unsur atau senyawa anorganik padat yang memiliki susunan atom teratur (periodik) dan komposisi kimia tertentu yang menghasilkan sifat fisik yang khas. Pada tahun 1995 definisi mineral diperketat oleh Asosiasi Mineralogi Internasional (IMA) yang menambahkan syarat bahwa mineral harus terbentuk melalui proses geologi alami, bukan melalui proses biologis atau sintesis buatan manusia.

Material kristalin yang dihasilkan oleh organisme hidup atau yang terbentuk di laboratorium tidak diakui sebagai mineral baru. Secara kimiawi mineral kristalin yang memiliki kemiripan dengan mineral alami seperti merkuri yang berwujud cair sementara air sendiri tidak dianggap mineral karena wujud cairnya dan berbeda dengan es atau gletser yang berstruktur kristal yang diakui sebagai mineral.

Di sisi lain definisi mineral dalam naturalistik historis yang lebih luas, yang mendefinisikan mineral sebagai segala material anorganik alami yang menjadi bagian dari kerajaan mineral anonim dari kerajaan hewan dan tumbuhan tanpa terlalu menekankan struktur kristal atau asal-usul genetiknya.[1]

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Amethyst crystals – a purple quartz
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Apophyllite crystals sitting right beside a cluster of peachy bowtie stilbite
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Aquamarine variety of beryl with tourmaline on orthoclase
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Arsenopyrite from Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
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Aurichalcite needles spraying out within a protected pocket lined by bladed calcite crystals
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Austinite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico
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Ametrine containing amethyst and citrine, from Bolivia
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Azurite, Burra Mine, South Australia
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Baryte (included by malachite) on malachite, from Shangulowé Mine, Kambove, Central area, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Spiky calcite scalenohedra with a coating of whitish benstonite on a layer of teal-colored fluorite
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Thin tabular biotite cluster
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Brookite from Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
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Radiating spray of colorless wheatsheaf calcite crystals on matrix, from Iraí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Rhombohedrons of calcite that appear almost as books of petals, piled up 3-dimensionally on the matrix, from Eastern Europe
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Sky blue, prismatic crystals of celestine from Majunga, Madagascar
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Pocket cavity of small chrysocolla stalactites from Ray Mine, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Arizona, USA
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Cinnabar on dolomite
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Cubic Cobaltite, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
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The slightly misshapen octahedral shape of this rough diamond crystal in matrix is typical of the mineral
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Dioptase from Tsumeb, Namibia
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Emerald on quartz, from Carnaiba Mine, Pindobaçu, Campo Formoso ultramafic complex, Bahia, Brazil
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Epidote crystals on matrix mined in Katsna Yama, Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
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Translucent fluorapophyllit-(K) crystal and stilbite, from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
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Deep green isolated fluorite crystal showing cubic and octahedral faces, set upon a micaceous matrix
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Garnet
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Gold vein stockwork in limonite, from Gold Flake Vein, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA
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Brazilian trigonal hematite crystals
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Heulandite and Celadonite, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India
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Hübnerite and quartz
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Inyoite from Monte Azul deposit, Sijes, Salta, Argentina
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  • Idocrase (synonym of vesuvianite)
  • Iolite (a gem-quality variety of cordierite)
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Benitoite (blue), joaquinite-(Ce) (brown) and neptunite (dark red) on natrolite (white), from Dallas Gem Mine area, San Benito River headwaters area, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA
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Kainosite-(Y) from the Amphibolite quarry, Haslach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Kröhnkite from Cuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
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Langite from Alsace, France
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Legrandite on limonite
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Liddicoatite on quartz and feldspar
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Magnetite from Speen Ghar, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
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Manganite from Ilfeld, Thuringia, Germany
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Mesolite at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mimetite on limonite matrix
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Needles of natrolite on deep pink inesite
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Neptunite from California, USA
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Boulder opal, Carisbrooke Station near Winton, Queensland, Australia
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A native Platinum nugget from the Kondyor mine, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.
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Pectolite from Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA
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Phosphophyllite from Cerro de Potosí, Potosí Department, Bolivia
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Proustite from Chanarcillo, Copiapo Province, Chile
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Quartz
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Crystals of cherry red ruby in matrix
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Rock crystal
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Native silver on Acanthite, Imiter Mine, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco
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Gypsum (selenite variety): Santa Eulalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico
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Serandite clusters from Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
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Botryoidal balls of shattuckite, from Otjikotu, Kaokoveld, Kunene, Namibia
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Ball of stepped stannite crystals flanked by splaying GEM quartzes and golden chalcopyrite at its upper edge, from Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang County, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
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Crystal of titanite with adularia and minor clinochlore on matrix
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Fluorite crystal sitting beside a glassy, dark green tourmaline crystal, which itself sits atop a green tourmaline of a lighter color. All sit on a bed of sparkly, bladed stark white albite
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Turquoise from the Copper Cities Mine, near Miami, Arizona, USA
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Uranophane, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo. FOV: 6 mm
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Vanadinite from the Mibladen Mining District, Morocco
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Deep green balls of wavellite in exposed pocket, from Mauldin Mountain Quarries, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA
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Radial fibrous inesite and xonotlite from Northern Cape Province, South Africa
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Yugawaralite crystals in a sheltered vug, from Jalgaon District, Maharashtra, India
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Zeolite with heulandite on quartz
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Zircon from Gilgit, Pakistan
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Referensi

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  1. Mehl, Jr, James P; Jackson, Julia A (2005). Neuendorf, Klaus K.E (ed.). Glossary of Geologi. American Geological Institute.
  2. Anthony, J.W.; Bideaux, R.A.; Bladh, K.W.; Nichols, M.C., ed. (19 March 2021). "Ice" (PDF). Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America. Diakses tanggal 26 November 2024.
  3. Pasero, Marco; et al. (July 2024). "IMA List of Minerals". IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification. Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal 25 April 2024. Diakses tanggal 19 July 2024.

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