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| title | Earth and Environmental Science extension - Mineral group vocabulary | |
| date | 2025-12-11T02:41:29.241788+00:00 | |
| subtitle | Vocabulary to extend the mineral material type category with the top level mineral group categories. Uses the Nickel–Strunz mineral classes, which divide minerals into ten classes according to chemical composition and crystal structure. Nickel-Strunz group 10 is not included because that material would be mat:organiccompounds. Version 10 of the classification is modified from v 9 (Strunz and Nickel,2002) by Jim Ferraiolo and others, and now extended and maintained by mindat.org. Some scope notes from linked.data.gov.au. | |
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https://w3id.org/isample/earthenv/mingroup/mineralgroupvocabulary
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- 2024-09-13 SMR remove version number from URI
Concepts
[]{#mineral}
Concept: mineral
Material consists of a single mineral or mineraloid phase. . 'A mineral is an element or chemical compound that is normally crystalline and that has been formed as a result of geological processes.' (Nickel, Ernest H. (1995), The definition of a mineral, The Canadian Mineralogist. 33 (3): 689–90). Include mineraloids. ... A material primarily composed of some substance that is naturally occurring, solid and stable at room temperature, representable by a chemical formula, usually abiogenic, and that has an ordered atomic structure. (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000256). Comment: the identity of a mineral species is defined by a crystal structure and a chemical composition that might include various specific elemental substitutions in that structure. Mineraloid: A naturally occurring mineral-like substance that does not demonstrate crystallinity. Mineraloids possess chemical compositions that vary beyond the generally accepted ranges for specific minerals. Examples: obsidian, Opal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineraloid)
[]{#boratemineral}
Concept: boratemineral
Child of:
mineral
Minerals which contain a borate anion group.
[]{#carbonatenitratemineral}
Concept: carbonatenitratemineral
Child of:
mineral
Carbonate minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion
[]{#halidemineral}
Concept: halidemineral
Child of:
mineral
Minerals with a dominant halide anion.
[]{#nativeelementmineral}
Concept: nativeelementmineral
Child of:
mineral
Elements that occur in nature in uncombined form with a distinct mineral structure. Includes metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides
[]{#organicmineral}
Concept: organicmineral
Child of:
mineral
Salts of organic acids, hydrocarbons, and miscellaneous organic minerals formed as a result of geological processes. Includes hydrocarbons, formates, acetates, oxalates, benzine salts, cyanates. Chemical compounds in which one or more atoms of carbon are covalently linked to atoms of other elements, most commonly hydrogen, oxygen, or nitrogen (https://www.britannica.com/science/organic-compound).
[]{#oxidemineral}
Concept: oxidemineral
Child of:
mineral
Includes class oxides, hydroxides, and arsenties. Oxides are minerals in which the oxide anion is bonded to one or more metal alloys. The hydroxide-bearing minerals are typically included in the oxide class. Arsenite minerals are very rare oxygen-bearing arsenic minerals.
[]{#phosphatearsenatevanadatemineral}
Concept: phosphatearsenatevanadatemineral
Child of:
mineral
Phosphate minerals contain the phosphate anion along sometimes with arsenate and vanadate substitutions, and chloride, fluoride, and hydroxide anions that also fit into the crystal structure. Arsenate minerals usually refer to the naturally occurring orthoarsenates.
[]{#silicategermanatemineral}
Concept: silicategermanatemineral
Child of:
mineral
Rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups
[]{#sulfateselenatetelluratemineral}
Concept: sulfateselenatetelluratemineral
Child of:
mineral
class of minerals that include the sulfate ion within their structure.
[]{#sulfidesulfosaltmineral}
Concept: sulfidesulfosaltmineral
Child of:
mineral
Sulfide minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfide or disulfide as the major anion. Sulfosalt minerals are those complex sulfide minerals with the general formula: AmBnSp; where A represents a metal such as copper, lead, silver, iron, and rarely mercury, zinc, vanadium; B usually represents semi-metal such as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, and rarely germanium, or metals like tin and rarely vanadium; and S is sulfur or rarely selenium or/and tellurium (m, n, and p are integer formula subscripts). Includes sulfides, selenides, tellurides; arsenides, antimonides, bismuthides; sulfarsenites, sulfantimonites, sulfbismuthites