List of minerals G (complete)
This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letter G. The International Mineralogical Association is the international group that recognises new minerals and new mineral names, however minerals discovered before 1959 did not go through the official naming procedure, although some minerals published previously have been either confirmed or discredited since that date. This list contains a mixture of mineral names that have been approved since 1959 and those mineral names believed to still refer to valid mineral species (these are called "grandfathered" species).
The list is divided into groups:
- Introduction • (Main synonyms)
- A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P–Q • R • S • T • U–V • W–X • Y–Z
The data was exported from mindat.org on 29 April 2005; updated up to 'IMA2014'.
The minerals are sorted by name with the year of publication (if it's before of an IMA approval procedure), followed by the IMA approval and the Nickel–Strunz code. The first link is to mindat.org, the second link is to webmineral.com, and the third is to the Handbook of Mineralogy (Mineralogical Society of America).
- Abbreviations:
- D – discredited (IMA/CNMNC status).
- Q – questionable/ doubtful (IMA/CNMNC, mindat.org or mineralienatlas.de status).
- N – published without approval of the IMA/CNMNC, or just not an IMA approved mineral but with some acceptance in the scientific community nowadays.
- I – intermediate member of a solid-solution series.
- H – hypothetical mineral (synthetic, anthropogenic, etc.)
- ch – incomplete description, hypothetical solid solution end member.
- Rd – redefinition of ...
- "s.p." – special procedure.
- group – a name used to designate a group of species, sometimes only a mineral group name.
- no – no link available.
- IUPAC – chemical name.
- Y: 1NNN – year of publication.
- Y: old – known before publications were available.
G
Ga – Ge
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- Gabrielite (IMA2002-053) 02.HD.60
(IUPAC: dithallium silver dicopper triarsenide heptasulfide) - Gabrielsonite (IMA1966-011) 08.BH.35
(IUPAC: lead iron arsenate hydroxyl) - Gadolinite 09.AJ.20
- Gagarinite 03.AB.35
- Gageite (Y: 1910) 09.DH.35
- Gahnite (Y: 1807) 04.BB.05
(IUPAC: zinc dialuminium tetraoxide) - Gaidonnayite (IMA1973-008) 09.DM.15
- Gainesite (IMA1978-020) 08.CA.20
- Gaitite (IMA1978-047) 08.CG.05
(IUPAC: dicalcium zinc diarsenate dihydrate) - Gajardoite (IMA2015-040) 04.??. [no] [no]
- Galaxite (Y: 1932) 04.BB.05
(IUPAC: manganese(II) dialuminium tetraoxide) - Galeite (IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 07.BD.10
(IUPAC: decapentasodium pentasulfate chloride tetrafluoride) - Galena (Y: old) 02.CD.10
(IUPAC: lead sulfide) - Galenobismutite (Y: 1878) 02.JC.25e
(IUPAC: lead dibismuth tetrasulfide) - Galgenbergite-(Ce) (IMA1997-036) 05.CC.40
(IUPAC: calcium dicerium tetracarbonate monohydrate) - Galileiite (IMA1996-028) 08.AC.50
(IUPAC: sodium tetrairon(II) triphosphate) - Galkhaite (IMA1971-029) 02.GB.20
- Galliskiite (IMA2009-038) 08.?? [no] [no]
(IUPAC: tetracalcium dialuminium diphosphate octafluoride pentahydrate) - Gallite (Y: 1958) 02.CB.10a
(IUPAC: copper gallium disulfide) - Gallobeudantite (IMA1994-021) 08.BL.05
(IUPAC: lead trigallium arsenate sulfate hexahydroxyl) - Galloplumbogummite (IMA2010-088) 08.?? [no] [no]
- Galuskinite (IMA2010-075) 09.?? [no]
(IUPAC: heptacalcium trisilicate (SiO4) carbonate) - Gamagarite (Y: 1943) 8.BG.05
(IUPAC: dibarium iron(III) divanadate hydroxyl) - Gananite (IMA1983-006) 03.AC.20
(IUPAC: bismuth trifluoride) - Ganomalite (Y: 1876) 09.BG.25
(IUPAC: trilead dicalcium silicate (SiO4) sorosilicate, Si2O7) - Ganophyllite (Y: 1890) 09.EG.30
- Ganterite (IMA2000-033) 09.EC.15
- Gaotaiite (IMA1993-017) 02.EB.05a
(IUPAC: triiridium octatelluride) - Garavellite (IMA1978-018) 02.HA.20
(IUPAC: iron antimony bismuth tetrasulfide) - Garrelsite (Y: 1955) 09.AJ.15
- Garronite 09.GC.05
- Gartrellite (IMA1988-039 Rd) 08.CG.20
(IUPAC: lead copper iron(III) diarsenate hydroxyl monohydrate) - Garutiite (IMA2008-055) 01.AG.05 [no]
- Garyansellite (IMA1981-019) 08.CC.05
- Gasparite-(Ce) (IMA1986-031) 08.AD.50
(IUPAC: cerium arsenate) - Gaspéite (IMA1965-029) 05.AB.05
(IUPAC: nickel carbonate) - Gatedalite (IMA2013-091) 09.A? [no] [no]
(IUPAC: zirconium dimanganese(II) tetramanganese(III) octaoxy nesosilicate, SiO4) - Gatehouseite (IMA1992-016) 08.BD.10
(IUPAC: pentamanganese(V) diphosphate tetrahydroxyl) - Gatelite-(Ce) (IMA2001-050) 09.BG.50 [no]
- Gatewayite (IMA2014-096) 04.??. [no] [no]
- Gatumbaite (IMA1976-019) 08.DJ.10
(IUPAC: calcium dialuminium diphosphate dihydroxyl monohydrate) - Gaudefroyite (IMA1964-006) 06.AB.60
- Gauthierite (IMA2016-004) 04.??. [no] [no]
(IUPAC: potassium lead heptauranyl pentyoxy heptahydroxyl octahydrate) - Gaultite (IMA1992-040) 09.GF.20 [no]
- Gayite (IMA2008-056) 08.DK.15 [no] [no]
(IUPAC: sodium manganese(II) pentairon(III) tetraphosphate hexahydroxyl diphosphate) - Gaylussite (Y: 1826) 05.CB.35
(IUPAC: disodium calcium dicarbonate pentahydrate) - Gazeevite (IMA2015-037) 09.??. [no] [no]
(IUPAC: barium hexacalcium dinesosilicate oxydisulfate) - Gearksutite (IMA1962 s.p., 1868) 03.CC.05
(IUPAC: Calcium aluminium tetrafluoride hydroxyl monohydrate) - Gebhardite (IMA1979-071) 04.JB.50
(IUPAC: octalead di(diarsenic pentaoxide) oxyhexachloride) - Gedrite [amphibole: IMA2012 s.p., 1836 Rd] 09.DD.05
- Geerite (IMA1978-024) 02.BA.05
(IUPAC: (8.5)copper octasulfide) - Geffroyite (IMA1980-090) 02.BB.15
- Gehlenite (Y: 1815) 09.BB.10
(IUPAC: dicalcium aluminium soroalumosilicate, AlSiO7) - Geigerite (IMA1985-028) 08.CE.05
(IUPAC: pentamanganese(II) diarsenate dihydrogenarsenate decahydrate) - Geikielite (Y: 1893) 04.CB.05
(IUPAC: magnesium titanium trioxide) - Gelosaite (IMA2009-022) 07.?? [no] [no]
- Geminite (IMA1988-045) 08.CB.30
(IUPAC: copper(II) hydrogen arsenate monohydrate) - Gengenbachite (IMA2001-003b) 08.CA.65 [no]
(IUPAC: potassium triiron di(dihydrogen phosphate) tetrahydrogenphosphate hexahydrate) - Genplesite (IMA2014-034) 07.?? [no] [no]
(IUPAC: tricalcium tin disulfate hexahydroxyl trihydrate) - Genkinite (IMA1976-051) 02.AC.35a
(IUPAC: tetraplatinum triantimonide) - Genthelvite (Y: 1892) 09.FB.10
(IUPAC: triberyllium tetrazinc tritectosilicate (SiO4) sulfide) - Geocronite (Y: 1839) 02.JB.30a
- Georgbarsanovite (IMA2003-013) 09.CO.10
- Georgbokiite (IMA1996-015) 04.JG.05
(IUPAC: pentacopper dioxy diselenite chloride) - Georgechaoite (IMA1984-024) 09.DM.15
- George-ericksenite (IMA1996-049) 04.KD.10
(IUPAC: hexasodium calcium magnesium hexaiodate dichromate dodecahydrate) - Georgeite (IMA1977-004 Rd) 05.BA.10
(IUPAC: dicopper carbonate dihydroxyl) - Georgerobinsonite (IMA2009-068) 07.?? [no] [no]
- Georgiadesite (Y: 1907) 04.JB.70
(IUPAC: tetralead arsenite tetrachloride hydroxyl) - Gerasimovskite (Y: 1957) 04.FM.25
(IUPAC: manganese(II) pentaniobium dodecaoxide nonahydrate) - Gerdtremmelite (IMA1983-049a) 08.BE.40
(IUPAC: zinc aluminium arsenate pentahydroxyl) - Gerenite-(Y) (IMA1993-034) 09.CJ.45 [no]
- Gerhardtite (Y: 1885) 05.NB.05
(IUPAC: dicopper nitrate trihydroxyl) - Germanite (Y: 1922) 02.CB.30
(IUPAC: tridecacopper diiron digermanium hexadecasulfide) - Germanocolusite (IMA1991-044) 02.CB.30
(IUPAC: tridecacopper vanadium trigermanium hexadecasulfide) - Gersdorffite (IMA1986 s.p., 1845 Rd) 02.EB.25
(IUPAC: nickel arsenide sulfide) - Gerstleyite (Y: 1956) 02.HE.05
(IUPAC: disodium octaantimonide tridecasulfide dihydrate) - Gerstmannite (IMA1975-030) 09.AE.25
(IUPAC: manganese(II) magnesium zinc nesosilicate tetrahydroxyl) - Geschieberite (IMA2014-006) 07.?? [no] [no]
(IUPAC: dipotassium uranyl disulfate dihydrate) - Getchellite (IMA1965-010) 02.FA.35
(IUPAC: antimony arsenide trisulfide) - Geversite (IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 02.EB.05a
(IUPAC: platinum diantimonide)
Gh – Gy
- Ghiaraite (IMA2012-072) 03.?? [no] [no]
(IUPAC: calcium dichloride tetrahydrate) - Gianellaite (IMA1972-020) 03.DD.30
(IUPAC: tetramercury sulfate dinitride) - Gibbsite (IMA1962 s.p., 1822) 04.FE.10
(IUPAC: aluminium trihydroxide) - Giessenite (IMA1963-004) 02.HB.10b
- Gilalite (IMA1979-021) 09.HE.05
- Gillardite (IMA2006-041) 03.DA.10c [no]
(IUPAC: tricopper(II) nickel dichloride hexahydroxyl) - Gillespite (Y: 1922) 09.EA.05
- Gillulyite (IMA1989-029) 02.JC.10
(IUPAC: dithallium octaarsenide tridecasulfide) - Gilmarite (IMA1996-017) 08.BE.25
(IUPAC: tricopper(II) arsenate trihydroxyl) - Giniite (IMA1977-017) 08.DB.50
(IUPAC: iron(II) tetrairon(III) tetraphosphate dihydroxyl dihydrate) - Ginorite (Y: 1934) 06.FC.15
- GiorgiositeQ (Y: 1879) 05.DA.05
- Giraudite (IMA1980-089) 02.GB.05
- Girvasite (IMA1988-046) 08.DO.05
- Gismondine 09.GC.05
- Gittinsite (IMA1979-034) 09.BC.05
(IUPAC: calcium zirconium sorosilicate, Si2O7) - Giuseppettite (IMA1979-064) 09.FB.05
- Gjerdingenite 09.CE.30c
- Gladite (Y: 1924) 02.HB.05a
(IUPAC: copper lead pentabismuth nonasulfide) - Gladiusite (IMA1998-011) 08.DF.40
(IUPAC: diiron(III) tetrairon(II) phosphate undecahydroxy monohydrate) - Glagolevite (IMA2001-064) 09.EC.55 [no]
- Glauberite (Y: 1808) 07.AD.25
(IUPAC: disodium calcium disulfate) - Glaucocerinite (Y: 1932) 07.DD.35
- Glaucochroite (Y: 1899) 09.AC.05
(IUPAC: calcium manganese(II) nesosilicate) - Glaucodot (Y: 1849) 02.EB.10c
(IUPAC: cobalt iron diarsenide disulfide) - Glauconite, mica series (Y: 1927) 09.EC.
- Glaucophane [amphibole: IMA2012 s.p., 1845 Rd] 09.DE.25
- Glaukosphaerite (IMA1972-028) 05.BA.10
(IUPAC: copper nickel carbonate dihydroxyl) - Glucine (mineral) (IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 08.DA.45
(IUPAC: calcium tetraberyllium diphosphate tetrahydroxyl (0.5)hydrate) - Glushinskite (IMA1985-Q Rd) 10.AB.10
(IUPAC: magnesium oxalate dihydrate) - Gmelinite 09.GD.05
- Gobbinsite (IMA1980-070) 09.GC.05
- Godlevskite (IMA1968-032) 02.BB.15
- Godovikovite (IMA1987-019) 07.AC.20
(IUPAC: ammonium aluminium disulfate) - Goedkenite (IMA1974-004) 08.BG.05
(IUPAC: distrontium aluminium diphosphate hydroxyl) - Goethite (IMA1980 s.p., 1919) 04.FD.10
(IUPAC: α-iron(III) oxyhydroxide) - Gold (Y: old) 01.AA.05
- Goldfieldite (IMA1998 s.p., 1909 Rd) 02.GB.05
(IUPAC: decacopper tetratelluride tridecasulfide) - Goldichite (Y: 1955) 07.CC.40
(IUPAC: potassium iron(III) disulfate tetrahydrate) - Goldmanite (IMA1963-003) 09.AD.25
(IUPAC: tricalcium divanadium(III) trinesosilicate) - Goldquarryite (IMA2001-058) 08.DB.65 [no]
(IUPAC: copper dicadmium trialuminium tetraphosphate trifluoride decahydrate) - Golyshevite (IMA2004-039) 09.CO.10
- Gonnardite (IMA1997 s.p., 1896 Rd) 09.GA.05
- Gonyerite (Y: 1955) 09.EC.55
- Goosecreekite (IMA1980-004) 09.GB.25
- Gorceixite (Y: 1906) 08.BL.10
(IUPAC: barium trialuminium phosphate hydrogenphosphate hexahydroxyl) - Gordaite (IMA1996-006) 07.DF.50
(IUPAC: sodium tetrazinc sulfate hexahydroxyl chloride hexahydrate) - Gordonite (Y: 1930) 08.DC.30
(IUPAC: magnesium dialuminium diphosphate dihydroxyl octahydrate) - Görgeyite (Y: 1953) 07.CD.30
(IUPAC: dipotassium pentacalcium hexasulfate monohydrate) - Gormanite (IMA1977-030) 08.DC.45
(IUPAC: triiron(II) tetraaluminium tetraphosphate hexahydroxyl dihydrate) - Gortdrumite (IMA1979-039) 02.BD.10
(IUPAC: octadecacopper iron hexamercury hexadecasulfide) - Goryainovite (IMA2015-090) 08.??
- Goslarite (Y: 1845) 07.CB.40
(IUPAC: zinc sulfate heptahydrate) - Gottardiite (IMA1994-054) 09.GF.10 [no]
- Gottlobite (IMA1998-066) 08.BH.35 [no]
(IUPAC: calcium magnesium vanadate hydroxyl) - Götzenite (IMA1962 s.p., 1957) 09.BE.22
(IUPAC: sodium hexacalcium titanium disorosilicate (Si2O7) oxytrifluoride) - Goudeyite (IMA1978-015) 08.DL.15
(IUPAC: hexacopper aluminium triarsenate hexahydroxyl trihydrate) - Gowerite (IMA1962 s.p., 1959) 06.EC.10
- Goyazite (IMA1999 s.p., 1884 Rd) 08.BL.10
(IUPAC: strontium trialuminium phosphate hydrogenphosphate hexahydroxyl) - Graemite (IMA1974-022) 04.JM.15
(IUPAC: copper(II) tellurite monohydrate) - Graeserite (IMA1996-010) 04.JB.55 [no]
(IUPAC: tetrairon trititanium arsenic tridecaoxide hydroxyl) - Graftonite (Y: 1900) 08.AB.20
- Gramaccioliite-(Y) (IMA2001-034) 04.CC.40
- Grandaite (IMA2013-059) 08.BG.?? [no]
(IUPAC: distrontium aluminium diarsenate hydroxyl) - Grandidierite (Y: 1902) 09.AJ.05
- Grandreefite (IMA1988-016) 07.BD.45
(IUPAC: dilead sulfate difluoride) - Grandviewite (IMA2007-004) 07.BB.60 [no]
- Grantsite (IMA1967 s.p., 1964) 04.HG.55
- Graphite (Y: 1789) 01.CB.05a
- Graţianite (IMA2013-076) 02.?? [no] [no]
(IUPAC: manganese dibismuth tetrasulfide) - Gratonite (Y: 1940) 02.JB.55
(IUPAC: nonalead tetraarsenide pentadecasulfide) - Grattarolaite (IMA1995-037) 08.BE.10
(IUPAC: triiron(III) trioxyphosphate) - Graulichite-(Ce) (IMA2002-001) 08.BL.13 [no]
(IUPAC: cerium triiron(III) diarsenate hexahydroxyl) - Gravegliaite (IMA1990-020) 04.JE.05
(IUPAC: manganese(II) sulfite trihydrate) - Grayite (Y: 1957) 08.CJ.45
(IUPAC: thorium phosphate monohydrate) - Grechishchevite (IMA1988-027) 02.FC.15c
- Greenalite (Y: 1903) 09.ED.15
- Greenockite (Y: 1840) 02.CB.45
(IUPAC: cadmium sulfide) - Greenwoodite (IMA2010-007) 09.?? [no]
- Gregoryite (IMA1981-045) 05.AA.10
(IUPAC: disodium carbonate) - Greifensteinite (IMA2001-044) 08.DA.10
- Greigite (IMA1963-007) 02.DA.05
(IUPAC: iron(IV) diiron(II) tetrasulfide) - Grenmarite (IMA2003-024) 09.BE.25 [no]
(IUPAC: tetrasodium manganese trizirconium disorosilicate (Si2O7) dioxy difluoride) - Griceite (IMA1986-043) 03.AA.20
(IUPAC: lithium fluoride) - Grigorievite (IMA2012-047) 08.?? [no]
(IUPAC: tricopper diiron(III) dialuminium hexavanadate) - Grimaldiite (IMA1967-036) 04.FE.20
(IUPAC: chromium oxyhdroxyl) - Grimselite (IMA1971-040) 05.ED.35
(IUPAC: tripotassium sodium uranyl tricarbonate monohydrate) - Griphite (Y: 1891) 08.BF.15
- Grischunite (IMA1981-028) 08.CF.05
- Groatite (IMA2008-054) 08.AC.10 [no]
- Grootfonteinite (IMA2015-051) 05.??
- Grossite (IMA1993-052) 04.CC.15
(IUPAC: calcium tetraaluminium heptaoxide) - Grossmanite (IMA2008-042a) 09.DA.15 [no]
(IUPAC: calcium titanium(III) inoalumosilicate with 2-periodic single chain, AlSiO6) - Grossular (IMA1962 s.p., 1811) 09.AD.25
(IUPAC: tricalcium dialuminium trinesosilicate) - Groutite (Y: 1947) 04.FD.10
(IUPAC: manganese(III) oxyhydroxyl) - Grumantite (IMA1985-029) 09.EH.10
- Grumiplucite (IMA1997-021) 02.JA.05b
(IUPAC: mercury dibismuth tetrasulfide) - Grundmannite (IMA2015-038) 02.??. [no] [no]
- Grunerite [amphibole: IMA2012 s.p., IMA1997 s.p., 1853 Rd] 09.DE.05
- Gruzdevite (IMA1980-053) 02.GA.30
(IUPAC: hexacopper trimercury tetraantimonide dodecasulfide) - Guanacoite (IMA2003-021) 08.DD.10 [no]
(IUPAC: dicopper trimagnesium diarsenate tetrahydroxyl tetrahydrate) - Guanajuatite (Y: 1858) 02.DB.05
(IUPAC: dibismuth triselenide) - Guanine (IMA1973-056) 10.CA.30
- Guarinoite (IMA1991-005) 07.DD.80
(IUPAC: hexazinc sulfate decahydroxyl pentahydrate) - Gudmundite (Y: 1928) 02.EB.20
(IUPAC: iron antimonide sulfide) - Guérinite (IMA2007 s.p., 1961) 08.CJ.75
(IUPAC: pentacalcium di(hydrogen arsenate) diarsenate nonahydrate) - Guettardite (IMA1966-018) 02.HC.05a
(IUPAC: lead antimonide arsenide tetrasulfide) - Gugiaite (IMA1983-072) 09.BB.10
(IUPAC: dicalcium beryllium sorosilicate, Si2O7) - Guidottiite (IMA2009-061) 09.ED.15 [no]
(IUPAC: dimanganese iron(III) (iron(III) silicium pentaoxide) tetrahydroxyl) - Guildite (Y: 1928) 07.DC.30
(IUPAC: copper iron(III) disulfate hydroxyl tetrahydrate) - Guilleminite (IMA1964-031) 04.JJ.10
(IUPAC: barium triuranyl diselenite dioxy trihydrate) - Guimarãesite (IMA2006-028) 08.DA.10 [no]
(IUPAC: dicalcium pentazinc tetraberyllium hexaphosphate tetrahydroxyl hexahydrate) - Gunningite (IMA1962 s.p.) 07.CB.05
(IUPAC: zinc sulfate monohydrate) - Günterblassite (IMA2011-032) 09.?? [no] [no]
- Gunterite (IMA2011-001) 08.?? [no]
- Gupeiite (IMA1983-087) 01.BB.30
(IUPAC: triiron silicide) - Gurimite (IMA2013-032) 08.?? [no] [no]
(IUPAC: tribarium divanadate) - Gustavite (IMA1967-048) 02.JB.40a
(IUPAC: silver lead tribismuth hexasulfide) - Gutkovaite-Mn (IMA2001-038) 09.CE.30h [no]
- Guyanaite (IMA1967-034) 04.FD.10
(IUPAC: chromium oxyhydroxyl) - Gwihabaite (IMA1994-011) 05.NA.15
(IUPAC: ammonium nitrate) - Gypsum (Y: 1736) 07.CD.40
(IUPAC: calcium sulfate dihydrate) - Gyrolite (Y: 1851) 09.EE.30
- Gysinite-(Nd) (IMA1981-046) 05.DC.05
(IUPAC: lead neodium dicarbonate hydroxyl monohydrate)
External links
- IMA Database of Mineral Properties/ RRUFF Project
- Mindat.org - The Mineral Database
- Webmineral.com
- Mineralatlas.eu minerals F and G