Silicate mineral
Phyllosilicate mineral Chrysocolla
A silicate mineral is a mineral that has a combination of the elements silicon and oxygen. In other words, a silicate mineral has one or more silicates. These minerals (especially feldspar) make up about 90% of the Earth's crust.
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Borates | |
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Carbonates |
- Ankerite
- Kutnohorite
- Rhodochrosite
- Manganoan Calcite
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Oxides | Simple |
- Hausmannite
- Manganite
- Manganosite
- Nsutite
- Pyrolusite
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Mixed |
- Birnessite
- Bixbyite
- Ferrocolumbite
- Ferrotantalite
- Galaxite
- Jacobsite
- Manganotantalite
- Psilomelane (calvonigrite)
- Romanèchite
- Tantalite
- Todorokite
- Umber
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Phosphates |
- Childrenite
- Graftonite
- Lithiophilite
- Natrophilite
- Purpurite
- Triplite
- Triploidite
- Zanazziite
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Silicates |
- Babingtonite
- Braunite
- Brownleeite
- Calderite
- Chloritoid
- Eudialyte
- Glaucochroite
- Jeffersonite
- Knebelite
- Ottrelite
- Piemontite
- Pyroxferroite
- Rhodonite
- Spessartine
- Sugilite
- Tephroite
- Zakharovite
- Zircophyllite
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Sulfides |
- Alabandite
- Hauerite
- Rambergite
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Other |
- Axinite (borosilicate)
- Geigerite (arsenate)
- Manganese nodule (various)
- Samsonite (Sulfosalt)
- Zincobotryogen (sulfate)
- Wolframite (tungstate)
- Hübnerite (tungstate)
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