Ma'adinai - m yi kama halitta jiki, wanda tsohon ko a cikin crystalline jihar. Ma'adanai ne wani ɓangare daga dutsen (dutsen-forming ma'adanai), ores, meteorites. Da kalmar da ake amfani da designate da ma'adinai ma'adinai mutum jinsunan da kuma iri-iri. Ma'adinai a matsayin ma'adinai jinsuna - na halitta sinadaran fili da ciwon wani sinadaran abun da ke ciki da kuma crystalline tsarin. Idan bambance-bambance a sinadaran abun da ke ciki a tsarin ainihi ba manya-manyan, da launi, ko wasu morphological fasali rarrabe ma'adinai iri - irin su dutsen crystal, amethyst, citrine, chalcedony ne irin ma'adini. Ma'adinai mutane - ma'adinai jiki, tsakanin wanda babu wani dubawa, irin su lu'ulu'u ne da hatsi. Kimiyya ke hulda da nazarin ma'adanai, mineralogy. Nazarin ma'adinai jinsunan phylogeny tsunduma ma'adanai da kuma kayyade mineralogy. Tun lokacin da aka 1950s, da gaskiyar da bude sabuwar ma'adinai da sunan amince da Hukumar on New ma'adanai da kuma Ma'adinai Islam na kasa da kasa Mineralogical Association (MMA).