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Codification of unnamed minerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

D. G. W. Smith  and
E. H. Nickel
D. G. W. Smith*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E3
E. H. Nickel
Affiliation:
Division of Exploration and Mining, CSIRO, PO Box 5, Wembley, W.A. 6913, Australia
*
E-mail: Dorian.Smith@ualberta.ca
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Abstract

The Subcommittee for Unnamed Minerals of the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC, formerly CNMMN) has developed a codification system that includes the year of publication and qualitative chemical composition for unnamed minerals reported in the literature. Such minerals are divided into two categories: (1) those regarded as being ‘valid as unnamed minerals’ are those that do not correspond to existing species, have not been reported previously and whose published descriptions enable them to be recognized if found elsewhere. (2) Unnamed minerals regarded as being ‘invalid as unnamed minerals’ are those whose published descriptions are inadequate for their confident recognition if found elsewhere, or which correspond to existing mineral species or unnamed minerals published previously.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 71 , Issue 5 , October 2007 , pp. 587 - 589
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2007

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References

Smith, D.G.W. and Leibovitz, D.P. (1986) MinIdent: a database for minerals and a computer program for their identification. The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 695–708.Google Scholar
Smith, D.G.W. and Nickel, E.H. (2007) A system of codification for unnamed minerals: report of the Subcommittee for Unnamed Minerals of the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classificaton. The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 983–1055.CrossRefGoogle Scholar