Classification of organic minerals

Some organic compounds are valid minerals, recognized by the CNMNC (IMA).

Nickel–Strunz classification −10- Organic compounds

• Abbreviations:
  • "*" – discredited (IMA/CNMNC status).
  • "?" – questionable/doubtful (IMA/CNMNC status).
• Nickel–Strunz code scheme: NN.XY.##x
  • NN: Nickel–Strunz mineral class number
  • X: Nickel–Strunz mineral division letter
  • Y: Nickel–Strunz mineral family letter
  • ##x: Nickel–Strunz mineral/group number, x add-on letter

Class: organic compounds

• 10.A Salts of organic acids
  • 10.AA Formates, Acetates, etc.: 05 formicaite, 10 dashkovaite, 20 acetamide, 25 calclacite, 30 paceite, 35 hoganite
  • 10.AB Oxalates: 05 humboldtine, 05 lindbergite; 10 glushinskite, 15 moolooite, 20 stepanovite, 25 minguzzite, 30 wheatleyite, 35 zhemchuzhnikovite, 40 weddellite, 45 whewellite, 50 caoxite, 55 oxammite, 60 natroxalate, 65 coskrenite-(Ce), 70 levinsonite-(Y), 75 zugshunstite-(Ce), 80 novgorodovaite
  • 10.AC Benzene Salts: 05 mellite, 10 earlandite, 15 pigotite?
  • 10.AD Cyanates: 05 julienite*, 10 kafehydrocyanite*
• 10.B Hydrocarbons
  • 10.BA Hydrocarbons: 05 fichtelite, 10 hartite, 15 dinite*, 20 idrialite, 25 kratochvilite, 30 karpatite, 35 phylloretine?, 40 ravatite, 45 simonellite, 50 evenkite
• 10.C Miscellaneous organic minerals
  • 10.C amber*
  • 10.CA Miscellaneous organic materials: 05 refikite, 10 flagstaffite, 15 hoelite, 20 abelsonite, 25 kladnoite; 30 tinnunculite, 30 guanine; 35 urea, 40 uricite

References

• Stuart J. Mills; Frédéric Hatert; Ernest H. Nickel & Giovanni Ferraris (2009). "The standardisation of mineral group hierarchies: application to recent nomenclature proposals" (PDF). Eur. J. Mineral. 21 (5): 1073–1080. Bibcode:2009EJMin..21.1073M. doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
• Nickel, Ernest H.; Nichols, Monte C. (March 2009). "IMA-CNMNC List of Mineral Names" (PDF). IMA-CNMNC. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
• Ferraiolo, Jim. "Nickel–Strunz (Version 10) Classification System". webmineral.com.
• Mineralsystematik nach Strunz 9. Auflage von 2001 (aktuell)
• Hr. Dr. Udo Neumann der Uni-Tuebingen (Systematik der Minerale)