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This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles. Minerals are distinguished by various chemical and physical properties. Differences in chemical composition and crystal structure distinguish the various species .
List of minerals – List of minerals with Wikipedia articles; List of rocks on Mars – Alphabetical list of named rocks and meteorites found on Mars; Rock cycle – Transitional concept of geologic time; List of rock formations: for a list of unusual or culturally significant rock outcrops
A sample of sodalite-carbonate pegmatite from Bolivia, with a polished rock surface. A light, relatively hard yet fragile mineral, sodalite is named after its sodium content; in mineralogy it may be classed as a feldspathoid. Well known for its blue color, sodalite may also be grey, yellow, green, or pink and is often mottled with white veins ...
Melilitite is a volcanic rock composed of over 90% melilite, with small amounts of olivine, clinopyroxene, and perovskite. The intrusive equivalent is melilitolite. [6] When pyroxene is absent from the rock, and the accessory minerals are olivine, magnetite, leucite, kalsilite, nepheline, and perovskite, the rock is sometimes called katungite.
Azurite or Azure spar [5]: 14 is a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. During the early 19th century, it was also known as chessylite, after the type locality at Chessy-les-Mines near Lyon, France. [3]
Cavansite, named for its chemical composition of calcium vanadium silicate, is a deep blue hydrous calcium vanadium phyllosilicate mineral, occurring as a secondary mineral in basaltic and andesitic rocks along with a variety of zeolite minerals. Its blue coloring comes from vanadium, a metal ion. [6]
Mineral: Formula (repeating unit) BaCu 2 Si 2 O 7: IMA symbol: Sty [1] Crystal system: Orthorhombic: Crystal class: ... Pale-blue: Density: 4.654: Scottyite is a ...
Blue Ridge Ophiolite is an ultramafic series of pods found in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian mountain chain. [1] The pods formed before the Taconic orogeny . [ 1 ] Throughout the middle and late Ordovician period, the rocks were affected by regional metamorphism leading to resulting in altered mineralogy for some pods.