Earth:List of minerals W–X (complete)
This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letters W and X. 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.
W
- Wadalite (mayenite: IMA1987-045) 09.AD.25 [1] [2] [no]
(IUPAC: hexacalcium pentaluminium hexadecaoxodisilicate trichloride) - Wadeite (Y: 1939) 09.CA.10 [3] [4] [5]
(IUPAC: dipotassium zirconium (nonaoxotrisilicate)) - Wadsleyite (IMA1982-012) 09.BE.02 [6] [7] [8]
(IUPAC: dimagnesium tetraoxosilicate) - Wagnerite (wagnerite: IMA2003 s.p., 1821 Rd) 08.BB.15 [9] [10] [11]
(IUPAC: dimagnesium phosphate fluoride) - Waimirite-(Y) (perovskite: IMA2013-108) 03. [12] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: yttrium trifluoride) - Wairakite (zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1997 s.p., 1955) 09.GB.05 [13] [14] [15]
(IUPAC: calcium (dialuminotetrasilicate) dodecaoxide dihydrate) - Wairauite (alloy: IMA1964-015) 01.AE.15 [16] [17] [18]
(IUPAC: cobalt iron alloy) - Wakabayashilite (IMA1969-024) 02.FA.40 [19] [20] [21]
((As,Sb)6As4S14) - Wakefieldite 08.AD.35
(IUPAC: REE vanadate) - Walentaite (IMA1983-047) 08.CH.05 [33] [34] [35]
(IUPAC: dihydrogen dicalcium hexairon(III) pentaarsenate triphosphate tetradecahydrate) - Walfordite (tellurite: IMA1996-003) 04.JK.05 [36] [37] [38]
- Walkerite (IMA2001-051) 06.GB.20 [39] [40] [no]
- Wallisite (hatchite: IMA1971 s.p., 1965) 02.GC.05 [41] [42] [43]
(CuPbTlAs2S5) - Wallkilldellite 08.DL.20
- Walpurgite (Y: 1871) 08.EA.05 [49] [50] [51]
(IUPAC: tetra(bismuth oxide) uranyl diarsenate dihydrate) - Walstromite (IMA1964-009) 09.CA.25 [52] [53] [54]
(IUPAC: barium dicalcium nonaoxotrisilicate) - Walthierite (alunite, alunite: IMA1991-008) 07.BC.10 [55] [56] [57]
(IUPAC: barium hexaaluminium tetrasulfate dodecahydroxy) - Wampenite (IMA2015-061) 10.B?. [58] [no] [no]
- Wangdaodeite (IMA2016-007) 04. [59] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: iron titanium trioxide) - Wardite (wardite: 1896) 08.DL.10 [60] [61] [62]
(IUPAC: sodium trialuminium diphosphate tetrahydroxy dihydrate) - Wardsmithite (IMA1967-030) 06.H0.25 [63] [64] [65]
(IUPAC: pentacalcium magnesium hexa(heptaoxotetraborate) triacontahydrate) - Warikahnite (IMA1978-038) 08.CA.35 [66] [67] [68]
(IUPAC: trizinc diarsenate dihydrate) - Warkite (sapphirine: IMA2013-129) 04. [69] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: dicalcium hexascandium hexaaluminium icosaoxide) - Warwickite (warwickite: 1838) 06.AB.20 [70] [71] [72]
- Wassonite (IMA2010-074) 02.CB. [73] [74] [75]
(IUPAC: titanium(II) sulfide) - Watanabeite (IMA1991-025) 02.GC.15 [76] [77] [78]
(Cu4(As,Sb)2S5) - Watatsumiite (neptunite: IMA2001-043) 09.EH.05 [79] [80] [no]
- Waterhouseite (IMA2004-035) 08.BE.85 [81] [82] [83]
(IUPAC: heptamanganese diphosphate octahydroxy) - Watkinsonite (watkinsonite: IMA1985-024) 02.HB.20e [84] [85] [86]
(PbCu2Bi4(Se,S)8) - Wattersite (IMA1987-030) 07.FB.15 [87] [88] [89]
(IUPAC: di(dimercury) mercury(II) dioxochromate) - WattevilleiteQ (Y: 1879) 07.CC.85 [90] [91] [92]
Note: possibly hexahydrite. - Wavellite (IMA1971 s.p., 1805) 08.DC.50 [93] [94] [95]
(IUPAC: trialuminium diphosphate trihydroxy pentahydrate) - Wawayandaite (IMA1988-043) 09.HA.20 [96] [97] [98]
- Waylandite (alunite, crandallite: IMA1962-003) 08.BL.13 [99] [100] [101]
(IUPAC: bismuth trialuminium diphosphate hexahydroxy) - Wayneburnhamite (IMA2015-124) 09.B?. [102] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: nonalead hexacalcium tri(heptaoxodisilicate) tri(tetraoxosilicate)) - Weberite (Y: 1938) 03.CB.25 [103] [104] [105]
(IUPAC: disodium magnesium alumino heptafluoride) - Weddellite (oxalate: 1936) 10.AB.40 [106] [107] [108]
(IUPAC: calcium oxalate dihydrate) - Weeksite (IMA1962 s.p., 1960) 09.AK.30 [109] [110] [111]
(IUPAC: dipotassium diuranyl tridecaoxopentasilicate tetrahydrate) - Wegscheiderite (IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 05.AA.30 [112] [113] [114]
(IUPAC: pentasodium trihydrogen tetracarbonate) - Weibullite (kobellite: IMA1980 s.p., 1910 Rd) 02.JB.25h [115] [116] [117]
(Ag0.33Pb5.33Bi8.33(S,Se)18) - Weilerite (alunite, beudandite: IMA1987 s.p., 1962 Rd) 08. [118] [119] [no]
(IUPAC: barium trialuminium sulfate arsenate hexahydroxy)
Note: it is definively not a synonym of arsenogorceixite as its sulfate content is now known. - Weilite (IMA1963-006) 08.AD.10 [120] [121] [122]
(IUPAC: (calcium hydroxoarsenate(V)) - Weinebeneite (beryllophosphate zeolite: IMA1990-049) 08.DA.20 [123] [124] [125]
(IUPAC: calcium triberyllium diphosphate dihydroxy tetrahydrate) - Weishanite (amalgam: IMA1982-076) 01.AD.20a [126] [127] [128]
((Au,Ag)1.2Hg0.8) - Weissbergite (IMA1975-040) 02.HD.05 [129] [130] [131]
(IUPAC: thallium disulfa antimonide) - Weissite (Y: 1927) 02.BA.30 [132] [133] [134]
(Cu(2-x)Te) - Welinite (IMA1966-002 Rd) 09.AF.75 [135] [136] [137] [138]
- Weloganite (IMA1967-042) 05.CC.05 [139] [140] [141]
(IUPAC: disodium tristrontium zirconium hexacarbonate trihydrate) - Welshite (sapphirine: IMA1973-019) 09.DH.40 [142] [143] [144]
- Wendwilsonite (IMA1985-047) 08.CG.10 [145] [146] [147]
(IUPAC: dicalcium magnesium diarsenate dihydrate) - Wenkite (tectosilicate zeolite: IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 09.GD.25 [148] [149] [150]
- Werdingite (IMA1988-023) 09.BD.35 [151] [152] [153]
(IUPAC: dimagnesium tetralumino tetraboro heptatriacontaoxotetrasilicate) - Wermlandite (hydrotalcite: IMA1970-007) 07.DD.35 [154] [155] [156]
- Wernerbaurite (decavanadate: IMA2012-064) 04. [157] [no] [158]
- Wernerkrauseite (post-spinel: IMA2014-008) 04. [159] [no] [no]
- Wesselsite (gillespite: IMA1994-055) 09.EA.05 [160] [161] [no]
(IUPAC: strontium copper decaoxotetrasilicate) - Westerveldite (modderite: IMA1971-017) 02.CC.15 [162] [163] [164]
(IUPAC: iron arsenide) - Wetherillite (IMA2014-044) 07. [165] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: disodium magnesium diuranyl tetrasulfate octadecahydrate) - Wheatleyite (oxalate: IMA1984-040) 10.AB.30 [166] [167] [168]
(IUPAC: disodium copper oxalate dihydrate) - Whelanite (IMA1977-006) 09. [169] [no] [no]
- Wherryite (Y: 1950) 07.BC.55 [170] [171] [no]
(IUPAC: heptalead dicopper tetrasulfate di(tetraoxosilicate) dihydroxy) - Whewellite (oxalate: IMA1967 s.p., 1852) 10.AB.45 [172] [173] [174]
(IUPAC: calcium oxalate monohydrate) - Whitecapsite (IMA2012-030) 07. [175] [no] [176]
- Whiteite 08.DH.15
(IUPAC: (tri M(II)) dialuminium diphosphate dihydroxy octahydrate)- Whiteite-(CaFeMg) (whiteite: IMA1975-001) 08.DH.15 [177] [178] [179]
- Whiteite-(CaMgMg) (whiteite: IMA2016-001) 08.DH.15 [180] [no] [no]
- Whiteite-(CaMnMg) (whiteite: IMA1986-012) 08.DH.15 [181] [182] [183]
- Whiteite-(CaMnMn) (whiteite: IMA2011-002) 08.DH.15 [184] [no] [185]
- Whiteite-(MnFeMg) (whiteite: IMA1978-A) 08.DH.15 [186] [187] [188]
- Whiteite-(MnMnMg) (whiteite: IMA2015-092) 08.DH.15 [189] [no] [no]
- Whitlockite (whitlockite: 1941) 08.AC.45 [190] [191] [192]
(IUPAC: nonacalcium magnesium hydroxophosphate(V) hexaphosphate) - Whitmoreite (arthurite: IMA1974-009) 08.DC.15 [193] [194] [195]
(IUPAC: iron(II) diiron(III) diphosphate dihydroxy tetrahydrate) - Wickenburgite (IMA1968-006) 09.EG.55 [196] [197] [198]
(IUPAC: trilead calcium dialumino heptaicosaoxodecasilicate tetrahydrate) - Wickmanite (schoenfliesite: IMA1965-024) 04.FC.10 [199] [200] [201]
(IUPAC: manganese(II) tin(IV) hexahydroxide) - Wicksite (wicksite: IMA1979-019) 08.CF.05 [202] [203] [204]
- Widenmannite (IMA1974-008) 05.ED.40 [205] [206] [207]
(IUPAC: dilead dihydroxy [uranyl dicarbonate]) - Widgiemoolthalite (IMA1992-006) 05.DA.05 [208] [209] [210]
(IUPAC: pentanickel tetracarbonate dihydro (tetra-penta)hydrate) - Wightmanite (IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 06.AB.55 [211] [212] [213]
(IUPAC: pentamagnesium oxo(trioxoborate) pentahydroxy dihydrate) - Wiklundite (IMA2015-057) 04. [214] [no] [no]
- Wilancookite (beryllophosphate zeolite: IMA2015-034) 08. [215] [no] [no]
- Wilcoxite (aubertite: IMA1979-070) 07.DE.45 [216] [217] [218]
(IUPAC: magnesium aluminium disulfate fluoride heptadecahydrate) - Wildenauerite (IMA2017-058) 08. [219] [no] [no]
- Wilhelmgümbelite (schoonerite, calcioferrite: IMA2015-072) 08. [220] [no] [no]
- Wilhelmkleinite (IMA1997-034) 08.BB.40 [221] [222] [223]
(IUPAC: zinc diiron(III) diarsenate dihydroxy) - Wilhelmramsayite (lazulite: IMA2004-033) 02.FD.40 [224] [225] [no]
(IUPAC: tricopper iron trisulfide dihydrate) - Wilhelmvierlingite (overite: IMA1982-025) 08.DH.20 [226] [227] [228]
(IUPAC: calcium manganese(II) iron(III) diphosphate hydroxy dihydrate) - Wilkinsonite (sapphirine: IMA1988-053) 09.DH.40 [229] [230] [231]
(IUPAC: tetrasodium [octairon(II) tetrairon(III)] tetraoxo[hexatriacontaoxoicosasilicate] - Wilkmanite (IMA1967 s.p., 1964) 02.D0.15 [232] [233] [234]
(IUPAC: trinickel tetraselenide) - Willemite (phenakite: 1830) 09.AA.05 [235] [236] [237]
(IUPAC: dizinc tetraoxosilicate) - Willemseite (talc: IMA1971 s.p., 1969) 09.EC.05 [238] [239] [240]
(IUPAC: trinickel dihydrodecaoxotetrasilicate) - Willhendersonite (zeolitic tectosilicate: IMA1981-030) 09.GD.10 [241] [242] [243]
(IUPAC: potassium calcium (trialuminotrisilicate) dodecaoxide pentahydrate) - Willyamite (cobaltite: IMA1970 s.p., IMA1969-001a Rd) 02.EB.25 [244] [245] [246]
(IUPAC: cobalt sulfantimonide) - Wiluite (vesuvianite: IMA1997-026) 09.BG.35 [247] [248] [no]
- Winchite [Na-Ca-amphibole: IMA2012 s.p., 1906 Rd] 09.DE.20 [249] [250] [251]
- Windhoekite (palygorskite: IMA2010-083) 09.EE.20 [252] [no] [no]
- Windmountainite (IMA2018-130) [no] [no] [no]
- Winstanleyite (tellurite: IMA1979-001) 04.JK.05 [253] [254] [255]
(IUPAC: titanium tritellurium(IV) octaoxide) - Wiserite (Y: 1845) 06.BA.20 [256] [257] [258]
- Witherite (aragonite: 1784) 05.AB.15 [259] [260] [261]
(IUPAC: barium carbonate) - Wittichenite (Y: 1853) 02.GA.20 [262] [263] [264]
(IUPAC: tricopper bismuth trisulfide) - WittiteQ (Y: 1924) 02.JB.20 [265] [266] [267]
Note: possibly Se-rich cannizzarite. - Witzkeite (IMA2011-084) 07. [268] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: tetrasodium tetrapotassium calcium dinitrate tetrasulfate dihydrate) - Wodginite (wodginite: IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 04.DB.40 [269] [270] [271]
(IUPAC: manganese(II) tin(IV) ditantalum octaoxide) - Wöhlerite (wöhlerite: 1843) 09.BE.17 [272] [273] [274]
- Wolfeite (wagnerite: 1949) 08.BB.15 [275] [276] [277]
(IUPAC: diron(II) phosphate hydroxy) - Wollastonite (wollastonite: IMA1962 s.p., 1818) 09.DG.05 [278] [279] [280]
(IUPAC: calcium trioxosilicate) - Wölsendorfite (wölsendorfite: 1957) 04.GB.30 [281] [282] [283]
(IUPAC: heptalead tetradecauranyl nonadecaoxide tetrahydroxy dodecahydrate) - Wonesite (mica: IMA1979-007a) 09.EC.20 [284] [285] [286]
- Woodallite (hydrotalcite: IMA2000-042) 04.FL.05 [287] [288] [289]
(IUPAC: hexamagnesium dichromium hexadecahydroxide dichloride tetrahydrate) - Woodhouseite (alunite, beudandite: IMA1987 s.p., 1937 Rd) 08.BL.05 [290] [291] [292]
(IUPAC: calcium trialuminium sulfate hexahydroxy phosphate) - Woodruffite (Y: 1953) 04.FL.25 [293] [294] [295]
(IUPAC: dizinc penta(manganese(IV),manganese(III)) decaoxide tetrahydrate) - Woodwardite (hydrotalcite: 1866) 07.DD.35 [296] [297] [298]
- Wooldridgeite (IMA1997-037) 08.FC.25 [299] [300] [301]
(IUPAC: disodium calcium dicopper(II) dipyrophosphate decahydrate) - Wopmayite (whitlockite: IMA2011-093) 08.AC. [302] [no] [303]
- Wrightite (IMA2015-120) 08. [304] [no] [no]
(IUPAC: dipotassium dialuminium oxodiarsenate) - Wroewolfeite (IMA1973-064) 07.DD.10 [305] [306] [307]
(IUPAC: tetracopper sulfate hexahydroxy dihydrate) - Wulfenite (scheelite: 1845) 07.GA.05 [308] [309] [310]
(IUPAC: lead molybdenum tetraoxide) - Wulffite (IMA2013-035) 07. [311] [312] [no]
(IUPAC: tripotassium sodium tetracopper dioxo tetrasulfate) - Wülfingite (cristobalite: IMA1983-070) 04.FA.10 [313] [314] [315]
(IUPAC: zinc dihydroxide) - Wupatkiite (halotrichite: IMA1994-019) 07.CB.85 [316] [317] [318]
(IUPAC: cobalt dialuminium tetrasulfate docosahydrate) - Wurtzite (wurtzite: 1861) 02.CB.45 [319] [320] [321]
(IUPAC: zinc sulfide) - Wüstite (Y: 1927) 04.AB.25 [322] [323] [324]
(IUPAC: iron(II) oxide) - Wumuite (IMA2017-067a) 04. [325] [no] [no]
- Wuyanzhiite (IMA2017-081) 02. [326] [no] [no]
- Wyartite (IMA1962 s.p., 1959) 05.EA.15 [327] [328] [329]
(IUPAC: calcium uranium(V) diuranyl carbonate tetraoxyhydroxy heptahydrate) - Wycheproofite (IMA1993-024) 08.DJ.30 [330] [331] [332]
(IUPAC: sodium aluminium zirconium diphosphate dihydroxy monohydrate) - Wyllieite (alluaudite: IMA1972-015) 08.AC.15 [333] [334] [335]
X
- Xanthiosite (olivine: IMA1965 s.p., 1858 Rd) 08.AB.25 [336] [337] [338]
(IUPAC: trinickel diarsenate) - Xanthoconite (Y: 1840) 02.GA.10 [339] [340] [341]
(IUPAC: trisilver trisulfa arsenide) - Xanthoxenite (IMA1975-004a, 1920 Rd) 08.DH.40 [342] [343] [344]
(IUPAC: tetracalcium diiron(III) tetraphosphate dihydroxy trihydrate) - Xenophyllite (IMA2006-006) 08.AC.50 [345] [346] [no]
(IUPAC: tetrasodium heptairon hexaphosphate) - Xenotime 08.AD.35
(IUPAC: REE phosphate) - Xiangjiangite (IMA1982 s.p., 1978) 08.EB.05 [352] [353] [354]
(IUPAC: iron(III) tetrauranyl diphosphate disulfate hydroxy docosahydrate) - Xieite (post-spinel: IMA2007-056) 04.BB.25 [355] [356] [no]
(IUPAC: iron(II) dichromium tetraoxide) - Xifengite (silicide: IMA1983-086) 01.BB.40 [357] [358] [359]
(IUPAC: pentairon trisilicide) - Xilingolite (lillianite: IMA1982-024) 02.JB.40a [360] [361] [362]
(Pb3Bi2S6) - Ximengite (rhabdophane: IMA1985-004) 08.AD.45 [363] [364] [365]
(IUPAC: bismuth phosphate) - XingzhongiteQ (spinel, linnaeite: 1976) 02.DA.05 [366] [367] [368]
Note: possibly cuproiridsite. - Xitieshanite (IMA1982-044) 07.DC.20 [369] [370] [371]
(IUPAC: iron(III) sulfate chloride hexahydrate) - Xocolatlite (tellurium oxysalt: IMA2007-020) 07.DF.85 [372] [373] [no]
(IUPAC: dicalcium dimanganese(IV) dodecaoxoditellurate(VI) monohydrate) - Xocomecatlite (IMA1974-048) 07.BB.50 [374] [375] [376]
(IUPAC: tricopper tetraoxotellurate(VI) tetrahydroxy) - Xonotlite (y: 1866) 09.DG.35 [377] [378] [379]
(IUPAC: hexacalcium heptadecaoxohexasilicate dihydroxy)
External links
- IMA Database of Mineral Properties/ RRUFF Project
- Mindat.org - The Mineral Database
- Webmineral.com
- Mineralatlas.eu minerals W and X