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Two commercially important halide minerals are halite and fluorite. The former is a major source of sodium chloride, in parallel with sodium chloride extracted from sea water or brine wells. Fluorite is a major source of hydrogen fluoride , complementing the supply obtained as a byproduct of the production of fertilizer.
The Halide Class includes minerals with a halogen as the major anion: fluorine F ...
A halide ion is a halogen atom bearing a negative charge. The common halide anions are fluoride (F −), chloride (Cl −), bromide (Br −), and iodide (I −). Such ions are present in many ionic halide salts. Halide minerals contain halides. All these halide anions are colorless.
Belloite is a Halide mineral first discovered in the Rio Tinto Mine in Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta, Chile in 1998. [1] Belloite has the ideal chemical formula of Cu(O H)Cl.The mineral has been approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, IMA, to be named belloite, after Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López, the founder of the Universidad de Chile.
The halogens may either be bonded to another element through covalent bonding or (as in many metal halides) present in the form of the halide ion. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
Bismoclite is a bismuth oxohalide mineral with formula BiOCl. It is the naturally occurring form of bismuth oxychloride.The name was derived from its chemical constituents. It is a secondary bismuth mineral first thought to be composed of bismuthyl ions (BiO +) and chloride anions, however, the existence of the diatomic bismuthyl ion is doubtf
Laurionite (PbCl(OH)) is a lead halide mineral. It forms colorless to white crystals in the orthorhombic crystal system and is dimorphous with paralaurionite, both members of the matlockite group. [2] It was first described in 1887 for an occurrence in the Laurium District, Attica, Greece, and named after the town Laurium. [2]
Hydrohalite is a mineral that occurs in saturated halite brines at cold temperatures (below 0.1 °C). It was first described in 1847 in Dürrnberg, Austria.It exists in cold weather.