Earth:List of minerals U–V (complete)
This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letters U and V. 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 (these are called "grandfathered" species).
The list is divided into groups:
- Introduction • (Main synonyms)
- 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 'IMA2018'.
The minerals are sorted by name, followed by the structural group (rruff.info/ima and ima-cnmnc by mineralienatlas.de, mainly) or chemical class (mindat.org and basics), the year of publication (if it's before of an IMA approval procedure), 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 (Mineralogical Society of America).
- Abbreviations:
- D – discredited (IMA/CNMNC status).
- Q – questionable/ doubtful (IMA/CNMNC, mindat.org or mineralienatlas.de status).
- N – published without approval of the IMA/CNMNC, or just not an IMA approved mineral but with some acceptance in the scientific community nowadays.
- I – intermediate member of a solid-solution series.
- H – hypothetical mineral (synthetic, anthropogenic, suspended approval procedure, etc.)
- ch – incomplete description, hypothetical solid solution end member.
- Rd – redefinition of ...
- "s.p." – special procedure.
- group – a name used to designate a group of species, sometimes only a mineral group name.
- no – no link available.
- IUPAC – chemical name.
- Y: 1NNN – year of publication.
- Y: old – known before publications were available.
U
- Uakitite (nitride, rocksalt: IMA2018-003) 01. [1] [no] [no]
- Uchucchacuaite (lillianite: IMA1981-007) 02.JB.40a [2] [3] [4]
(AgMnPb3Sb5S12) - Udinaite (IMA2018-066) 08. [5] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: sodium tetramagnesium trivanadate) - UdumineliteQ (Y: 1950) 08.DM.30 [6] [no] [no]
- Uedaite-(Ce) (epidote: IMA2006-022) 09.BG.05 [7] [8] [9]
- Uklonskovite (IMA1967 s.p., 1964) 07.DF.05 [10] [11] [12]
- Ulexite (Y: 1850) 06.EA.25 [13] [14] [15]
(IUPAC: sodium calcium hexaoxopentaborate hexahydroxide pentahydrate) - Ulfanderssonite-(Ce) (IMA2016-107) 09. [16] [no] [no]
- Ullmannite (ullmannite: 1843) 02.EB.25 [17] [18] [19]
(IUPAC: nickel sulfantimonide) - Ulrichite (IMA1988-006) 08.EA.15 [20] [21] [22]
- Ulvöspinel (spinel, spinel: 1946) 04.BB.05 [23] [24] [25]
(IUPAC: diiron(II) titanum tetraoxide) - Umangite (Y: 1891) 02.BA.25 [26] [27] [28]
(IUPAC: tricopper diselenide) - Umbite (umbite: IMA1982-006) 09.DG.25 [29] [30] [31]
- Umbozerite (IMA1973-039) 09.HG.15 [32] [33] [34]
- Umbrianite (phyllosilicate: IMA2011-074) 09.E?. [35] [no] [no]
- Umohoite (Y: 1953) 04.GC.10 [36] [37] [38]
(IUPAC: uranyl molybdate dihydrate) - Ungavaite (IMA2004-020) 02.AC.35b [39] [40] [41]
(IUPAC: tetrapalladium triantimonide) - Ungemachite (Y: 1938) 07.DG.10 [42] [43] [44]
(IUPAC: tripotassium octasodium iron(III) hexasulfate dinitrate hexahydrate) - Upalite (IMA1978-045) 08.EC.05 [45] [46] [47]
(IUPAC: aluminium triuranyl diphosphate oxide hydroxide heptahydrate) - Uralborite (Y: 1961, 1967 s.p.) 06.DA.35 [48] [49] [50]
(IUPAC: calcium dioxodiborate tetrahydroxide) - Uralolite (Y: 1964) 08.DA.15 [51] [52] [53]
- Uramarsite (meta-autunite: IMA2005-043) 08.EB.15 [54] [55] [56]
(IUPAC: ammonium uranyl arsenate trihydrate) - Uramphite (natroautunite: 1957) 08.EB.15 [57] [58] [59]
(IUPAC: ammonium uranyl phosphate trihydrate) - Urancalcarite (IMA1983-052) 05.EA.10 [60] [61] [62]
(IUPAC: calcium triuranyl carbonate hexahydroxide trihydrate) - Uraninite (fluorite: 1845) 04.DL.05 [63] [64] [65]
(IUPAC: uranium dioxide) - Uranocircite-II (Y: 1877) 08.EB.05 [66] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: barium diuranyl diphosphate decahydrate)- (
Note, uranocircite I: dodecahydrate is discredited)
- (
- Uranophane 09.AK.15
(IUPAC: calcium diuranyl di(hydrotrioxosilicate) pentahydrate) - Uranopilite (Y: 1882) 07.EA.05 [73] [74] [75]
(IUPAC: hexauranyl sulfate dioxide hexahydroxide tetradecahydrate) - Uranopolycrase (columbite: IMA1990-046) 04.DG.05 [76] [77] [78]
- Uranosilite (IMA1981-066) 09.AK.40 [79] [80] [81]
- Uranospathite (Y: 1915) 08.EB.25 [82] [83] [84]
- Uranosphaerite (Y: 1873) 04.GB.65 [85] [86] [87]
(IUPAC: bismuth uranyl dioxide hydroxide) - Uranospinite (Y: 1873) 08.EB.05 [88] [89] [90]
(IUPAC: calcium diuranyl diarsenate decahydrate) - Uranotungstite (IMA1984-005) 07.HB.25 [91] [92] [93]
(IUPAC: iron diuranyl tungstanate tetrahydroxide dodecahydrate) - Urea (IMA1972-031) 10.CA.35 [94] [95] [96]
- Uricite (IMA1973-055) 10.CA.40 [97] [98] [99]
(IUPAC: uric acid) - Uroxite (hydrous uranyl oxalate: IMA2018-100) 10.AB. [100] [no] [no]
- Ursilite (Y: 1957) 09.AK.35 [101] [102] [no]
- Urusovite (IMA1998-067) 08.BB.60 [103] [104] [no]
(IUPAC: copper aluminium oxoarsenate) - Urvantsevite (IMA1976-025) 02.EB.30 [105] [106] [107]
(Pd(Bi,Pb)2) - Ushkovite (laueite, laueite: IMA1982-014) 08.DC.30 [108] [109] [110]
(IUPAC: magnesium diiron(III) diphosphate dihydroxide octahydrate) - Usovite (IMA1966-038) 03.CB.35 [111] [112] [113]
(IUPAC: dibarium calcium magnesium dialuminium tetradecafluoride) - Ussingite (Y: 1915) 09.EH.20 [114] [115] [116]
- UstarasiteQ (Y: 1955) 02.JB.40e [117] [118] [119]
- Usturite (garnet: IMA2009-053) 04. [120] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: tricalcium (antimony zirconium) tri(iron(III) tetraoxide)) - Utahite (tellurium oxysalt: IMA1995-039) 07.DE.25 [121] [122] [123]
(IUPAC: pentacopper trizinc tetra(tetraoxotellurate(VI)) octahydroxide heptahydrate) - UvaniteQ (Y: 1914) 04.HB.35 [124] [125] [126]
- Uvarovite (garnet, garnet: IMA1967 s.p., 1832) 09.AD.25 [127] [128] [129]
(IUPAC: tricalcium dichromium tri(tetraoxosilicate)) - Uytenbogaardtite (1977-018) 02.BA.75 [130] [131] [132]
(IUPAC: trisilver gold disulfide) - Uzonite (IMA1984-027) 02.FA.25 [133] [134] [135]
(IUPAC: tetraarsenic pentasulfide)
V
- Vaesite (pyrite: 1945) 02.EB.05a [136] [137] [138]
(IUPAC: nickel disulfide) - Vajdakite (IMA1998-031) 04.JC.20 [139] [140] [no]
(IUPAC: di(dioxomolybdate(VI)) diarsenic(III) pentaoxide trihydrate) - Valentinite (IMA1980 s.p., 1845) 04.CB.55 [141] [142] [143]
(IUPAC: diantimony trioxide) - Valleriite (valleriite: 1871) 02.FD.30 [144] [145] [146]
- Valleyite (sodalite: IMA2017-026) 04. [147] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: tetracalcium hexairon tridecaoxide) - Vanackerite (apatite: IMA2011-114) 08. [148] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: tetralead cadmium triarsenate (chloride,hydroxide)) - Vanadinite (apatite: 1838) 08.BN.05 [149] [150] [151]
(IUPAC: pentalead trivanadate chloride) - Vanadiocarpholite (carpholite: IMA2003-055) 09.DB.05 [152] [153] [no]
(IUPAC: manganese(II) vanadium(III) aluminium hexaoxodisilicate tetrahydroxide) - Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite (tourmaline: IMA2012-034) 09.CK. [154] [no] [no]
- Vanadio-oxy-dravite (tourmaline: IMA2012-074) 09.CK. [155] [no] [no]
- Vanadiopargasite (Ca-amphibole: IMA2017-019) 09.D [156] [no] [no]
- Vanadium (iron: IMA2012-021a) 01.AE. [157] [no] [no]
- Vanadoallanite-(La) (epidote: IMA2012-095) 09.B?. [158] [no] [no]
- Vanadoandrosite-(Ce) (epidote, allanite: IMA2004-015) 09.BG.05 [159] [160] [161]
- Vanadomalayaite (titanite: IMA1993-032) 09.AG.15 [162] [163] [no]
(IUPAC: calcium vanadium oxide(tetraoxosilicate)) - Vanalite (IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 04.HG.15 [164] [165] [166]
- Vanarsite (polyoxometalate: IMA2014-031) 04. [167] [no] [no]
- Vandenbrandeite (Y: 1932) 04.GB.45 [168] [169] [170]
(IUPAC: copper uranyl tetrahydroxide) - Vandendriesscheite (Y: 1947) 04.GB.40 [171] [172] [173]
- Vanderheydenite (IMA2014-076) 08. [174] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: hexazinc diphosphate sulfate tetrahydroxide heptahydrate) - Vandermeerscheite (IMA2017-104) 08. [175] [no] [no]
- Vaniniite (IMA2017-116) 08. [176] [no] [no]
- Vanmeersscheite (IMA1981-009) 08.EC.20 [177] [178] [179]
- VanoxiteQ (Y: 1925) 04.HG.25 [180] [181] [182]
(IUPAC: tetravanadium(IV) divanadium(V) tridecaoxide octahydrate) - Vantasselite (IMA1986-016) 08.DC.37 [183] [184] [185]
(IUPAC: tetraluminium triphosphate trihydroxide nonahydrate) - Vanthoffite (Y: 1902) 07.AC.05 [186] [187] [188]
(IUPAC: hexasodium magnesium tetrasulfate) - Vanuralite (IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 04.HB.20 [189] [190] [191]
(IUPAC: aluminium diuranyl divanadate hydroxide undecahydrate) - Vapnikite (double perovskite: IMA2013-082) 04.00. [192] [no] [193]
(IUPAC: dicalcium calcium uranium hexaoxide) - Varennesite (IMA1994-017) 09.EE.50 [194] [195] [no]
- Variscite (IMA1967 s.p., 1837) 08.CD.10 [196] [197] [198]
(IUPAC: aluminium phosphate dihydrate) - VarlamoffiteQ (rutile: 1947) 04.DB.05 [199] [no] [no]
Note: possibly a variety of cassiterite. - Varulite (alluaudite: 1937) 08.AC.10 [200] [201] [202]
(IUPAC: sodium calcium trimanganese(II) triphosphate) - Vashegyite (Y: 1909) 08.DB.10 [203] [204] [205]
(IUPAC: undecaaluminium nonaphosphate hexahydroxide octatriacontahydrate) - Vasilite (IMA1989-044) 02.BC.25 [206] [207] [208]
((Pd,Cu)16(S,Te)7) - Vasilseverginite (IMA2015-083) 08. [209] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: nonacopper tetraoxodiarsenate disulfate) - Vasilyevite (IMA2003-016) 03.DD.45 [210] [211] [no]
(IUPAC: deca(dimercury) hexaoxide triodine diboron chlorine carbonate) - Västmanlandite-(Ce) (gatelite: IMA2002-025) 09.BG.55 [212] [213] [no]
- Vaterite (IMA1962 s.p., 1911) 05.AB.20 [214] [215] [216]
(IUPAC: anhydrous calcium carbonate) - Vaughanite (IMA1987-055) 02.LA.20 [217] [218] [219]
(TlHgSb4S7) - Vauquelinite (Y: 1818) 07.FC.05 [220] [221] [222]
(IUPAC: copper dilead chromate phosphate hydroxide) - Vauxite (Y: 1922) 08.DC.35 [223] [224] [225]
(IUPAC: iron(II) dialumium diphosphate dihydroxide hexahydrate) - Vavřínite (IMA2005-045) 02.CC.30 [226] [227] [no]
(IUPAC: dinickel antimonide ditelluride) - Väyrynenite (Y: 1954) 08.BA.05 [228] [229] [230]
(IUPAC: beryllium manganese(II) phosphate hydroxide) - Veatchite (Y: 1938) 06.EC.15 [231] [232] [233]
- Veblenite (veblenite (Si8O22) ribbon: IMA2010-050) 09. [234] [no] [no]
- Veenite (IMA1966-016) 02.HC.05d [235] [236] [237]
(IUPAC: dilead diantimonide pentasulfide) - Velikite (stannite: IMA1996-052) 02.CB.15a [238] [239] [240]
(IUPAC: dicopper mercury tetrasulfa stannide) - Vendidaite (IMA2012-089) 07. [241] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: dialuminium sulfate trihydroxide chloride hexahydrate) - Verbeekite (IMA2001-005) 02.EA.25 [242] [243] [244]
(IUPAC: lead diselenide) - Verbierite (humite: IMA2015-089) 04. [245] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: beryllium dichromium(III) titanium hexaoxide) - Vergasovaite (vergasovaite: IMA1998-009) 07.BB.30 [246] [247] [248]
(IUPAC: tricopper oxomolybdate sulfate) - Vermiculite (smectite-vermiculite: 1824) 09.EC.50 [249] [250] [251]
- VernaditeQ (Y: 1937) 04.FE.40 [252] [253] [254]
Note: possibly random-stacked birnessite. - Verneite (IMA2016-112) 03. [255] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: disodium tricalcium dialuminium tetradecafluoride) - Verplanckite (IMA1964-011) 09.CE.10 [256] [257] [258]
- Versiliaite (IMA1978-068) 04.JA.30 [259] [260] [261]
- Vertumnite (IMA1975-043) 09.EG.25 [262] [263] [264]
- Veselovskýite (lindackerite: IMA2005-053) 08.CE.30 [265] [266] [no]
- Vésigniéite (Y: 1955) 08.BH.45 [267] [268] [269]
(IUPAC: tricopper barium dihydroxide divanadate) - Vestaite (IMA2017-068) 04. [270] [no] [no]
- Vesuvianite (vesuvianite: IMA1962 s.p., 1795) 09.BG.35 [271] [272] [273]
- Veszelyite (Y: 1874) 08.DA.30 [274] [275] [276]
(IUPAC: di(copper,zinc) zinc phosphate trihydroxide dihydrate) - Viaeneite (IMA1993-051) 02.FD.10 [277] [278] [279]
- Vicanite-(Ce) (okanoganite: IMA1991-050) 09.AJ.35 [280] [281] [no]
- Vigezzite (aeschnyite: IMA1977-008) 04.DF.05 [282] [283] [284]
- Vigrishinite (seidozerite, murmanite: IMA2011-073) 09.B?. [285] [no] [286]
- Vihorlatite (IMA1988-047) 02.DC.05 [287] [288] [no]
(Bi24Se17Te4) - Viitaniemiite (IMA1977-043) 08.BL.15 [289] [290] [291]
(IUPAC: sodium calcium aluminium phosphate trifluoride) - Vikingite (lillianite: IMA1976-006) 02.JB.40a [292] [293] [294]
(Ag5Pb8Bi13S30) - Villamanínite (pyrite: IMA1989 s.p., 1920 Rd) 02.EB.05a [295] [296] [297]
(IUPAC: copper disulfide) - Villiaumite (halite, rocksalt: 1908) 03.AA.20 [298] [299] [300]
(IUPAC: sodium fluoride) - Villyaellenite (hureaulite: IMA1983-008a) 08.CB.10 [301] [302] [303]
- Vimsite (IMA1968-034) 06.BC.15 [304] [305] [306]
(IUPAC: calcium dioxodiborate tetrahydroxide) - Vincentite (IMA1973-051) 02.AC.05b [307] [308] [309]
(IUPAC: tripalladium arsenide) - Vinciennite (IMA1983-031) 02.CB.35a [310] [311] [312]
(Cu10Fe4SnAsS16) - Vinogradovite (Y: 1956) 09.DB.25 [313] [314] [315]
- Violarite (spinel, linnaeite: 1889) 02.DA.05 [316] [317] [318]
(IUPAC: iron(II) dinickel(III) tetrasulfide) - Virgilite (quartz: IMA1977-009) 09.FA.15 [319] [320] [321]
- Vishnevite (cancrinite: 1944) 09.FB.05 [322] [323] [324]
(IUPAC: octasodium (hexaluminohexasilicate) tetraicosaoxosulfate dihydrate) - Vismirnovite (schoenfliesite: IMA1980-029) 04.FC.10 [325] [326] [327]
(IUPAC: zinc tin hexahydroxide) - Vistepite (IMA1991-012) 09.BD.25 [328] [329] [330]
(IUPAC: tetramanganese tin dioxodiborate di(heptaoxodisilicate) dihydroxide) - Viteite (IMA2019-040) [no] [no] [no]
- Vitimite (IMA2001-057) 06.H0.45 [331] [332] [no]
(IUPAC: hexacalcium [tetradecahydroxide|sulfate|nonadecaoxotetradecaborate] pentahydrate) - Vittinkiite (IMA2017-082a) [no] [no] [no]
- Vitusite-(Ce) (IMA1976-055) 08.AC.35 [333] [334] [335]
(IUPAC: trisodium cerium diphosphate) - Vivianite (vivianite: 1817) 08.CE.40 [336] [337] [338]
(IUPAC: triiron(II) diphosphate octahydrate) - Vladimirite (IMA1964 s.p., 1953 Rd) 08.CJ.25 [339] [340] [341]
(IUPAC: tetracalcium diarsenate hydroxoarsenate(V) tetrahydrate) - Vladimirivanovite (sodalite: IMA2010-070) 09.FB. [342] [no] [343]
- Vladkrivovichevite (IMA2011-020) 03.D?. [344] [no] [345]
- Vladykinite (IMA2011-052) 09. [346] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: trisodium tetrastrontium (iron(II) iron(III)) tetraicosaoxoctasiliate) - Vlasovite (IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 09.DM.25 [347] [348] [349]
(IUPAC: disodium zirconium undecaoxotetrasilicate) - Vlodavetsite (IMA1993-023) 07.DF.40 [350] [351] [352]
(IUPAC: dicalcium aluminium disulfate difluoride chloride tetrahydrate) - Vochtenite (IMA1987-047) 08.EB.30 [353] [354] [355]
- Voggite (IMA1988-037) 08.DO.10 [356] [357] [358]
(IUPAC: disodium zirconium phosphate carbonate hydroxide dihydrate) - Voglite (Y: 1853) 05.EE.05 [359] [360] [361]
(IUPAC: dicalcium copper uranyl tetracarbonate hexahydrate) - Volaschioite (IMA2010-005) 07.DE.62 [362] [no] [363]
(IUPAC: tetrairon sulfate dioxide hexahydroxide dihydrate) - Volborthite (IMA1968 s.p., 1838) 08.FD.05 [364] [365] [366]
(IUPAC: tricopper heptaoxodivanadate dihydroxide dihydrate) - Volkonskoite (montmorillonite, smectite: IMA1987 s.p., 1831 Rd) 09.EC.40 [367] [368] [369]
- Volkovskite (IMA1968 s.p., 1966) 06.EC.20 [370] [371] [372]
- Voloshinite (mica: IMA2007-052) 09. [373] [374] [no]
- Voltaite (voltaite: 1841) 07.CC.25 [375] [376] [377]
(IUPAC: dipotassium pentairon(II) triiron(III) aluminium dodecasulfate octadecahydrate) - Volynskite (IMA1968 s.p., 1966) 02.JA.20 [378] [379] [380]
(IUPAC: silver bismuth ditelluride) - Vonbezingite (IMA1991-031) 07.DD.65 [381] [382] [383]
(IUPAC: hexacalcium tricopper trisulfate dodecahydroxide dihydrate) - Vonsenite (ludwigite: 1920) 06.AB.30 [384] [385] [386]
(IUPAC: diron(II) iron(III) dioxide(trioxoborate)) - Vorlanite (fluorite: IMA2009-032) 04. [387] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: calcium uranium(VI) tetraoxide) - Voronkovite (eudialyte: IMA2007-023) 09.CO.10 [388] [389] [no]
- Vorontsovite (tennantite: IMA2016-076) 02. [390] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: (pentamercury copper) thallium dodecasulfa tetraarsenide) - Voudourisite (kieserite: IMA2012-042) 07. [391] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: cadmium sulfate monohydrate) - Vozhminite (IMA1981-040) 02.BB.05 [392] [393] [394]
(IUPAC: tetranickel disulfarsenide) - Vránaite (anhydrous aluminoborosilicate: IMA2015-084) 09. [395] [no] [no]
- Vrbaite (Y: 1912) 02.HF.20 [396] [397] [398]
(Hg3Tl4As8Sb2S20) - Vuagnatite (adelite: IMA1975-007) 09.AG.60 [399] [400] [401]
(IUPAC: calcium aluminium hydrotetraoxosilicate) - Vulcanite (IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 02.CB.75 [402] [403] [404]
(IUPAC: copper(I) telluride) - Vuonnemite (seidozerite, lamprophyllite: IMA1973-015) 09.BE.35 [405] [406] [407]
(IUPAC: hexasodium disodium diniobium trisodium titanium di(heptaoxodisilicate) diphosphate dioxo(oxofluoride)) - Vuorelainenite (spinel, spinel: IMA1980-048) 04.BB.05 [408] [409] [410]
(IUPAC: manganese(II) divanadium(III) tetraoxide) - Vuoriyarvite-K (labuntsovite: IMA1995-031) 09.CE.30b [411] [412] [no]
- Vurroite (IMA2003-027) 02.JB.65 [413] [414] [415]
(Pb20Sn2(Bi,As)22S54Cl6) - Vyacheslavite (IMA1983-017) 08.DN.20 [416] [417] [418]
(IUPAC: diuranium(IV) diphosphate dihydroxide pentahydrate) - Vyalsovite (IMA1989-004) 02.FD.45 [419] [420] [421]
(IUPAC: calcium iron aluminium sulfide pentahydroxide) - Vymazalováite (IMA2016-105) 02. [422] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: trilead disulfa dibismuthide) - Vysokýite (IMA2012-067) 04. [423] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: uranium(IV) tetra(dihydroxoarsenate(V)) tetrahydrate) - Vysotskite (IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 02.CC.35a [424] [425] [426]
(IUPAC: (palladium,nickel) sulfide) - Vyuntspakhkite-(Y) (IMA1982-040) 09.BG.40 [427] [428] [429]
External links
- IMA Database of Mineral Properties/ RRUFF Project
- Mindat.org - The Mineral Database
- Webmineral.com
- Mineralatlas.eu minerals U and V