page_title: List of minerals approved by IMA (B)
section_title: Ba
hierarchical_section_title: List of minerals approved by IMA (B) / B / Ba
caption_attribution_description: English: beryl var. emerald, parisite-(Ce)&#160;: Muzo Mine, Mun. de Muzo, Vasquez-Yacopí Mining District, Boyacá Department, Colombia
context_page_description: This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letter B. The International Mineralogical Association is the international group that recognises new minerals and new mineral names, however minerals discovered before 1959 did not go through the official naming procedure, although some minerals published previously have been either confirmed or discredited since that date. This list contains a mixture of mineral names that have been approved since 1959 and those mineral names believed to still refer to valid mineral species.
  The list is divided into groups:
  Introduction •
  A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P–Q • R • S • T • U–V • W–X • Y–Z
  The data was exported from mindat.org on 29 April 2005; updated up to 'IMA2019'.
  The minerals are sorted by name, followed by the structural group or chemical class, the year of publication, the IMA approval and the Nickel–Strunz code. The first link is to mindat.org, the second link is to webmineral.com, and the third is to the Handbook of Mineralogy.
  Abbreviations:
  ᴰ – discredited.
  Q – questionable/ doubtful.
context_section_description: Babánekite (vivianite: IMA2012-007) 8.CE.  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: tricopper diarsenate octahydrate)
  Babefphite (IMA1966-003) 8.BA.15    
  (IUPAC: barium beryllium fluoro phosphate)
  Babingtonite (rhodonite: 1824) 9.DK.05   
  Babkinite (tetradymite: IMA1994-030) 2.GC.40e    
  (Pb₂Bi₂(S,Se)₃)
  Backite (tellurium oxysalt: IMA2013-113) 7.A  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: dilead aluminium chloro tellurium(VI) hexaoxide)
  Badakhshanite-(Y) (perettiite: IMA2018-085) 9.E  [no] [no]
  Badalovite (alluaudite: IMA2016-053) 8.0  [no] [no] 
  (NaNaMg(MgFe³⁺)(AsO₄)₃)
  Baddeleyite (baddeleyite: 1893) 4.DE.35    
  (IUPAC: zirconium(IV) dioxide)
  Badengzhuite (phosphide: IMA2019-076) 1.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: titanium phosphide)
  Bafertisite (seidozerite, bafertisite: IMA2016 s.p., 1959) 9.BE.55   
  Baghdadite (wohlerite: IMA1982-075) 9.BE.17    
  (IUPAC: hexacalcium dizirconium tetraoxo di(heptaoxodisilicate))
  Bahianite (IMA1974-027) 4.DC.05    
  (IUPAC: pentaluminium triantimony(V) dihydro tetradecaoxide)
  Baileychlore (chlorite: IMA1986-056) 9.EC.55   
  Bairdite (IMA2012-061) 8.0  [no] [no]
  Bakhchisaraitsevite (IMA1999-005) 8.CH.50   [no] 
  (IUPAC: disodium pentamagnesium tetraphosphate heptahydrate)
  Baksanite (tetradymite: IMA1992-042) 2.DC.05    
  (IUPAC: hexabismuth ditelluride trisulfide)
  Balangeroite (IMA1982-002) 9.DH.35   
  Balestraite (mica: IMA2013-080) 9.E?.  [no] [no]
  Balićžunićite (IMA2012-098) 7.A  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: dibismuth oxo disulfate)
  Balipholite (carpholite: 1975) 9.DB.05    
  (IUPAC: lithium barium dimagnesium trialuminium di(hexaoxodisilicate) octahydroxyl)
  Balkanite (IMA1971-009) 2.BD.15    
  (IUPAC: pentasilver nonacopper mercury octasulfide)
  Balliranoite (cancrinite: IMA2008-065) 9.FB.05  [no] 
  Balyakinite (tellurite: IMA1980-001) 4.JK.15    
  (IUPAC: copper(II) tellurite(IV))
  Bambollaite (IMA1965-014) 2.EB.05b    
  (Cu(Se,Te)₂)
  Bamfordite (IMA1996-059) 4.FK.05    
  (IUPAC: iron(III) trihydro dimolybdenum hexaoxide monohydrate)
  Banalsite (Y: 1944) 9.FA.60   
  Bandylite (Y: 1938) 6.AC.35    
  (IUPAC: copper chloro tetrahydroxyborate)
  Bannermanite (IMA1980-010) 4.HF.05   
  Bannisterite (stilpnomelane: IMA1967-005) 9.EG.75   
  Baotite (IMA1962 s.p., 1960) 9.CE.15   
  Barahonaite 8.CH.60
  Barahonaite-(Al) (IMA2006-051) 8.CH.60   
  Barahonaite-(Fe) (IMA2006-052) 8.CH.60   
  Bararite (fluorosilicate: 1951) 3.CH.10    
  (IUPAC: diammonium hexafluorosilicate)
  Baratovite (baratovite: IMA1974-055) 9.CJ.25   
  Barberiite (fluoroborate: IMA1993-008) 3.CA.10    
  (IUPAC: ammonium tetrafluoroborate)
  Barbosalite (Y: 1954) 8.BB.40    
  (IUPAC: iron(II) diiron(III) dihydro diphosphate)
  Barentsite (IMA1982-101) 5.BB.05    
  (IUPAC: heptasodium aluminium tetrafluoro dicarbonate dibicarbonate)
  Bariandite (straczekite: IMA1970-043) 4.HE.20   
  Barićite (vivianite: IMA1975-027) 8.CE.40    
  (IUPAC: tri(magnesium,iron) diphosphate octahydrate)
  Barikaite (sartorite: IMA2012-055) 2.0  [no] [no] 
  (Ag₃Pb₁₀(Sb₈As₁₁)Σ19S₄₀)
  Barioferrite (magnetoplumbite: IMA2009-030) 4.CC.45  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: barium dodecairon(III) nonadecaoxide)
  Bario-olgite (aphthitalite: IMA2003-002) 8.AC.40   
  Bario-orthojoaquinite (joaquinite: IMA1979-081) 9.CE.25    
  (IUPAC: tetrabarium diiron(II) dititanium dioxo octa(trioxosilicate) monohydrate)
  Barioperovskite (oxide perovskite: IMA2006-040) 4.CC.30   [no] 
  (IUPAC: barium titanium trioxide)
  Bariopharmacoalumite (pharmacosiderite: IMA2010-041) 8.DK.12  [no]  
  (IUPAC: (0.5)barium tetraluminium [tetrahydro triarsenate] tetrahydrate)
  Barite
  Bariumpharmacosiderite (pharmacosiderite: IMA1994 s.p., 1966 Rd) 8.DK.10   [no] 
  (IUPAC: barium tetrairon(III) [tetrahydro triarsenate] pentahydrate)
  Bariosincosite (IMA1998-047) 8.CJ.65    
  (IUPAC: barium di(oxovanadate) diphosphate tetrahydrate)
  Barlowite (claringbullite: IMA2010-020) 3.DA.15  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: tetracopper hexahydro bromide fluoride)
  Barnesite (hewettite: IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 4.HG.45   
  Barquillite (stannite: IMA1996-050) 2.KA.10    
  (IUPAC: dicopper (cadmium,iron) germanide tetrasulfide)
  Barrerite (zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1974-017) 9.GE.15   
  Barringerite (barringerite: IMA1968-037) 1.BD.10    
  (IUPAC: di(iron,nic
caption: Beryl (var. emerald), from Muzo Mine, Vasquez-Yacopí Mining District, Colombia
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