page_title: List of minerals approved by IMA (S)
section_title: Sa
hierarchical_section_title: List of minerals approved by IMA (S) / S / Sa
caption_attribution_description: w:Gypsum – w:Selenite from Rio Grande Do Sul, BrazilOn display at the w:Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in w:Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
context_page_description: This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letter S. 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: Saamite (seidozerite, lamprophyllite: IMA2013-083) 9.B?.  [no] [no]
  Sabatierite (IMA1976-043) 2.BD.45    
  (IUPAC: hexacopper thallium tetraselenide)
  Sabelliite (IMA1994-013) 8.BE.65    
  (IUPAC: dicopper zinc trihydro arsenate)
  Sabieite (sabieite: IMA1982-088) 7.AC.20    
  (IUPAC: ammonium iron(III) disulfate)
  Sabinaite (IMA1978-071) 5.BB.20    
  (IUPAC: tetrasodium titanium dizirconium tetraoxide tetracarbonate)
  Sabugalite (Y: 1951) 8.EB.55    
  (IUPAC: hydrogen aluminium tetrauranyl tetraphosphate hexadecahydrate)
  Saccoite (IMA2019-056) 7.0  [no] [no]
  Sacrofanite (cancrinite-sodalite: IMA1979-058) 9.FB.05   
  Sadanagaite [Ca-amphibole: IMA2012 s.p., magnesiosadanagaite (IMA2002-051), 1984] 9.DE.15   
  Saddlebackite (tetradymite: IMA1994-051) 2.GC.40d    
  (IUPAC: dilead dibismuth ditelluride trisulfide)
  Safflorite (löllingite: 1835) 2.EB.15a    
  (IUPAC: cobalt diarsenide)
  Sahamalite-(Ce) (IMA1987 s.p., 1953) 5.AD.05    
  (IUPAC: dicerium magnesium tetracarbonate)
  Sahlinite (Y: 1934) 8.BO.20    
  (IUPAC: tetradecalead tetrachloro nonaoxodiarsenate)
  Sailaufite (arseniosiderite: IMA2000-005) 8.DH.30   [no]
  Sainfeldite (hureaulite: IMA1963-018) 8.CB.10    
  (IUPAC: pentacalcium diarsenate dihydroxoarsenate tetrahydrate)
  Sakhaite (IMA1965-035) 6.AB.65   
  Sakuraiite (stannite: IMA1965-017) 2.CB.05b    
  (IUPAC: tri(copper,zinc,iron) (indium,tin) tetrasulfide)
  Salammoniac (IMA2007 s.p., 1556) 3.AA.25    
  (IUPAC: ammonium chloride)
  Saléeite (Y: 1932) 8.EB.05    
  (IUPAC: magnesium diuranyl diphosphate deca(water))
  Salesite (Y: 1939) 4.KB.05    
  (IUPAC: copper hydro iodate)
  Saliotite (corrensite: IMA1990-018) 9.EC.60   [no] 
  Note: a regular 1:1 ordered interstratification of cookeite and paragonite.
  Saltonseaite (rinneite: IMA2011-104) 3.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: tripotassium sodium manganese hexachloride)
  Salzburgite (meneghinite: IMA2000-044) 2.HB.05a    
  (Cu1.6Pb1.6Bi6.4S₁₂)
  Samaniite (IMA2007-038) 2.BB.    
  (IUPAC: dicopper pentairon dinickel octasulfide)
  Samarskite 4.DB.25
  Samarskite-(Y) (IMA1980 s.p., 1847) 4.DB.25   
  Samarskite-(Yb) (IMA2004-001) 4.DB.25   [no] 
  (IUPAC: ytterbium niobium tetraoxide)
  Samfowlerite (IMA1991-045) 9.BF.10   
  Sampleite (lavendulan: 1942) 8.DG.05    
  (IUPAC: sodium calcium pentacopper chloro tetraphosphate pentahydrate)
  Samsonite (Y: 1910) 2.GA.15    
  (IUPAC: tetrasilver manganese hexasulfur diantimonide)
  Samuelsonite (IMA1974-026) 8.BF.10    
  (IUPAC: nonacalcium tetramanganese(II) dialuminium dihydro decaphosphate)
  Sanbornite (Y: 1932) 9.EF.10    
  (IUPAC: dibarium (decaoxy tetrasilicate))
  Sanderite (Y: 1952) 7.CB.07   [no] 
  (IUPAC: magnesium sulfate dihydrate)
  Saneroite (IMA1979-060) 9.DK.15   
  Sangenaroite (IMA2019-014) 2.0  [no] [no]
  Sanguite (IMA2013-002) 3.0  [no] [no]
  (IUPAC: potassium copper trichloride)
  Sanidine (feldspar: 1808) 9.FA.30    
  (IUPAC: potassium (aluminoctaoxotrisilicate))
  Sanjuanite (sanjuanite-destinezite: IMA1966-043) 8.DB.30    
  (IUPAC: dialuminium hydro phosphate sulfate nonahydrate)
  Sanmartinite (wolframite: 1948) 4.DB.30    
  (IUPAC: zinc (tungsten tetraoxide))
  Sanrománite (IMA2006-009) 5.AC.30   [no] 
  (IUPAC: disodium calcium trilead pentacarbonate)
  Santabarbaraite (IMA2000-052) 8.CE.80   [no] 
  (IUPAC: triiron(III) trihydro diphosphate pentahydrate)
  Santaclaraite (IMA1979-005) 9.DK.10    
  (IUPAC: calcium tetramanganese(II) tetradecaoxopentasilicate dihydroxyl monohydrate)
  Santafeite (hydrous vanadate: 1958) 8.DM.40   
  Santanaite (IMA1971-035) 7.FB.10    
  (IUPAC: undecalead chromium hexadecaoxide)
  Santarosaite (IMA2007-013) 6.BD.05    
  (IUPAC: copper metaborate)
  Santite (IMA1969-044) 6.EA.10    
  (IUPAC: potassium tetrahydroxo hexaoxopentaborate dihydrate)
  Saponite (montmorillonite, smectite: 1842) 9.EC.45   
  Sapphirine (sapphirine: 1819) 9.DH.45   
  Sarabauite (IMA1976-035) 2.MA.10    
  (IUPAC: hexasulfa tetraantimonide · calcium decaoxide hexantimonide)
  Saranchianite (IMA2015-019) 7.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: disodium copper disulfate)
  Sarcolite (Y: 1807) 9.EH.15   
  Sarcopside (olivine: 1868) 8.AB.15    
  (IUPAC: triiron(II) diphosphate)
  Sardignaite (IMA2008-040) 4.0  [no] [no] 
  (IUPAC: bis
caption: Gypsum (var. selenite) from Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
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