Minerals Strunz classification

Minerals are arranged by the DANA and Strunz classification systems (Gaines et al. 1997 Strunz 1941). The groups are as follows ... 

Nesosilicates are the simplest silicates. They contain isolated or independent Si04 tetrahedra. This group has also been called the orthosilicates. A secondary classification, the nesosubsilicates has been designated by Strunz (1957), who was the originator of the silicate classification. This subclass included species having a second anion or anionic radical. The nesosilicates include the gem minerals zircon, topaz, and the garnet and olivine groups. 

Strunz Mineralogical Tables. Chemical-Structural Mineral Classification System. / by Hugo Strunz and Ernest H. Nickel. 9th ed - Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 2001 ISBN 3-510-65188-X... 

In this edition, the world of minerals is divided by chemical features into ten classes, each of which is subdivided, on chemical-structural principles, into divisions, subdivisions, groups of isotypic and homeotypic minerals, or individual minerals with unique structure types groups with two or more mineral names comprise minerals with similar structure or composition. The classification system and alphanumeric coding scheme used in this 9 edition of the Strunz Mineralogical Tables were presented at the 1994 IMA meeting in Pisa. They permit the insertion of thousands of new minerals in the future without changing the basic classification framework. 

Strunz, H. and Nickel, E.H. (2001) Mineralog-ical Tables. Chemical-Structural Mineral Classification System, E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 465-468. 

The modern systematic classification of minerals was introduced by Prof. Hugo Strunz and is briefly listed in Table 12.15. 

Strunz, H. Nickel, E. (2001) Strunz Mineralogical Tables Chemical-Structural Mineral Classification System, 9th ed. - E. Schweizerbart sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart. 

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