Flashcards: Halide minerals

Creedite is a calcium aluminium sulfate fluoro hydroxide mineral with formula: Ca3Al2SO4(F,OH)10·2(H2O).

Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2.

Diaboleite is a blue-colored mineral with formula Pb2CuCl2(OH)4.

Cryolite (Na3AlF6, sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is an uncommon mineral identified with the once large deposit at Ivigtût on the west coast of Greenland, depleted by 1987.

Sylvite, or sylvine, is potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form.

Atacamite is a copper halide mineral: a copper(II) chloride hydroxide with formula Cu2Cl(OH)3.

Carnallite is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride with formula KMgCl3·6(H2O).

Sodalite is a rich royal blue tectosilicate mineral widely used as an ornamental gemstone.

Chlorargyrite is the mineral form of silver chloride (AgCl).

Pyromorphite is a mineral species composed of lead chlorophosphate: Pb5(PO4)3Cl, sometimes occurring in sufficient abundance to be mined as an ore of lead.

Phosgenite is a rare mineral consisting of lead chlorocarbonate, (PbCl)2CO3.

Villiaumite is a rare halide mineral composed of sodium fluoride, NaF.

Bararite is a natural form of ammonium fluorosilicate (also known as hexafluorosilicate or fluosilicate).

Herbertsmithite is a mineral with chemical structure ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2.

Kogarkoite is a sodium sulfate fluoride mineral with formula Na3(SO4)F.

Kainite (KMg(SO4)Cl·3H2O) is an evaporite mineral in the class of "Sulfates (selenates, etc.) with additional anions, with H2O" according to the Nickel-Strunz classification.

Matlockite is a rare lead halide mineral, named after the town of Matlock in Derbyshire, England, where it was first discovered in a nearby mine.

The mineral bastnäsite (or bastnaesite) is one of a family of three carbonate-fluoride minerals, which includes bastnäsite-(Ce) with a formula of (Ce, La)CO3F, bastnäsite-(La) with a formula of (La, Ce)CO3F, and bastnäsite-(Y) with a formula of (Y, Ce)CO3F.

Mimetite, whose name derives from the Greek Μιμητής mimetes, meaning "imitator", is a lead arsenate chloride mineral (Pb5(AsO4)3Cl) which forms as a secondary mineral in lead deposits, usually by the oxidation of galena and arsenopyrite.

Halite (/ˈhælaɪt/ or /ˈheɪlaɪt/), commonly known as rock salt, is a type of salt, the mineral form of sodium chloride (NaCl).

Anthonyite is a hydrous secondary copper halide mineral with chemical formula of Cu(OH,Cl)2•3(H2O).

Hilgardite is a borate mineral with the chemical formula Ca2B5O9Cl·H2O.

Hydrohalite is a mineral that occurs in saturated halite brines at cold temperatures (−5 °C).

Perite is a mineral that has a general chemical formula of PbBiO2Cl.

Kukharenkoite-(Ce) is a barium cerium fluoride carbonate mineral, formula Ba2CeF(CO3)3.

Mendipite is a rare mineral that was named in 1939 for the locality where it is found, the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England.

Mereheadite is a rare oxychloride that can be found with Mendipite at Merehead quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.

Abhurite is a mineral of tin, oxygen, hydrogen, and chlorine with the formula Sn3O(OH)2Cl2.

Sonolite is a mineral with formula Mn9(SiO4)4(OH,F)2.

Bultfonteinite, originally dutoitspanite, is a pink to colorless mineral with chemical formula Ca2SiO2(OH,F)4.

Gagarinite-(Ce) previously zajacite-(Ce) is a rare radioactive fluoride mineral with formula: Na(REExCa1-x)(REEyCa1-y)F6.

Tachyhydrite is an unstable mineral, a hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium with formula: CaMg2Cl6·12H2O.

Botallackite, chemical formula Cu2(OH)3Cl is a secondary copper mineral, named for its type locality at the Botallack mine, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall.

Yttrocerite is a variety of the mineral fluorite with a chemical formula CaF2+(Y,Ce)F3.

Frankdicksonite is a halide mineral with the chemical formula BaF2 which corresponds to the chemical compound barium fluoride.

Pinalite is a rare lead tungstate–chloride mineral with formula: Pb3WO5Cl2.

Sellaite is a magnesium fluoride mineral with the formula MgF2.

Artroeite (PbAlF3(OH)2) is a mineral found in Arizona.

Hanksite is a sulfate mineral, distinguished as one of only a handful that contain both carbonate and sulfate ion groups.

Sampleite has a general formula of NaCaCu5(PO4)4Cl•5(H2O).

Leucophanite is an inosilicate mineral with a complex composition, (Na,Ca)2BeSi2(O.OH.F)7.

Herderite is a phosphate mineral belonging to the apatite, phosphate group, with formula CaBe(PO4)(F,OH).

Boleite is a complex halide mineral with formula: KPb26Ag9Cu24(OH)48Cl62.

Iyoite is a very rare manganese copper chloride hydroxide mineral with the formula MnCuCl(OH)3.

Feodosiyite is a very rare chloride mineral, just recently approved, with the formula Cu11Mg2Cl18(OH)8•16H2O.

Zunyite is a sorosilicate mineral, Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl, composed of aluminium, silicon, hydrogen, chlorine, oxygen, and fluorine.

Asisite (Pb7SiO8Cl2) is a yellow tetragonal mineral.

Thomsenolite is a mineral with formula: NaCaAlF6·H2O.

Friedel's salt is an anion exchanger mineral belonging to the family of the layered double hydroxides (LDHs).

Antarcticite is an uncommon calcium chloride hexahydrate mineral with formula: CaCl2·6H2O.

Connellite is a rare mineral species, a hydrous copper chloro-sulfate, Cu19(OH)32(SO4)Cl4·3H2O, crystallizing in the hexagonal system.

Iodyrite or iodargyrite is a natural mineral form of silver iodide.

Sal ammoniac is a rare mineral composed of ammonium chloride, NH4Cl.

Barstowite, formula Pb4[Cl6|CO3]•H2O, is a transparent to white mineral in the monoclinic system.

Bismoclite is a bismuth oxohalide mineral with formula BiOCl.

Cadwaladerite is a rare aluminium halide mineral with formula: AlOHCl2·4(H2O).

Calumetite is a natural rarely occurring mineral.

Chambersite is a manganese borate mineral with formula: Mn3B7O13Cl.

Chloroxiphite is a rare olive green to pistacio green lead copper halide mineral with formula: Pb3CuO2Cl2(OH)2.

Chlorocalcite is a rare potassium calcium chloride evaporite mineral with formula: KCaCl3.

Corderoite is an extremely rare mercury sulfide chloride mineral with formula Hg3S2Cl2.

Gananite (simplified Chinese: 赣南矿; traditional Chinese: 贛南礦; pinyin: gàn nán kuàng) is a rare bismuth fluoride mineral with a general formula of BiF3.

Zinc chloride hydroxide monohydrate is a zinc hydroxy compound with chemical formula Zn5(OH)8Cl2·H2O.

Paralaurionite is a colorless mineral consisting of a basic lead chloride PbCl(OH) that is dimorphous with laurionite.

Akaganeite is an iron(III) oxide-hydroxide / chloride mineral with formula: Fe3+O(OH,Cl) e.

Nadorite is a mineral with the chemical formula PbSbO2Cl.

Terlinguaite is the naturally occurring mineral with formula Hg2ClO.

Xitieshanite is a hydrous iron sulfate–chloride mineral with chemical formula: Fe3+(SO4)Cl·6(H2O).

Acuminite is a rare halide mineral of with chemical formula: SrAlF4(OH)·(H2O).

Bromyrite or bromargyrite is a natural mineral form of silver bromide found mainly in Mexico and Chile.

Laurionite (PbCl(OH)) is a lead halide mineral.

Marialite is a silicate mineral with a chemical composition of Na4Al3Si9O24Cl if a pure endmember or Na4(AlSi3O8)3(Cl2,CO3,SO4) with increasing meionite content.

Bischofite (bischofit) is a hydrous magnesium chloride mineral with formula MgCl2·6H2O.

Cotunnite is the natural mineral form of lead(II) chloride with formula PbCl2.

Coccinite is a rare mercury iodide mineral with chemical formula of HgI2, mercury(II) iodide.

Daubréeite is a rare bismuth oxohalide mineral with formula BiO(OH,Cl).