Dana Classification

Minerals Arranged by the New Dana Classification

This arrangement of mineral species is based on Dana's New Mineralogy by Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig, with sections by Vandall T. King, Illustrations by Eric Dowty, (ISBN: 047119310-0) Copyright © 1997, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.". This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Follow this link for a short discussion on the Dana Classification Number.

Note: Space Group in Red Point Group in Green.

* - Not IMA Approved.

! - Dana Number Added or Changed.

? - IMA Discredited Mineral Name.

Dana Salts of Organic Acids Classification

50.01 Salts of Organic Acids (Oxalates)

50.01.01

50.01.01.01 Whewellite Ca(C2O4)•(H2O) P 2₁/c 2/m

50.01.02 Weddellite Group

50.01.02.01 Weddellite Ca(C2O4)•2(H2O) I 4/m 4/m

50.01.02.02 Caoxite! Ca(C2O4)•3(H2O) P1 1

50.01.03 Humboldtine Group

50.01.03.01 Humboldtine Fe++(C2O4)•2(H2O) I2/a 2/m

50.01.03.02 Glushinskite Mg(C2O4)•2(H2O) C 2/c 2/m

50.01.03.03 Lindbergite! Mn(C2O4)•2(H2O) C 2/c 2/m

50.01.04

50.01.04.01 Minguzzite K3Fe+++(C2O4)3•3(H2O) P 2₁/c 2/m

50.01.05

50.01.05.01 Oxammite (NH4)2(C2O4)•(H2O) P 2₁2₁2 2 2 2

50.01.06

50.01.06.01 Moolooite Cu++(C2O4)•n(H2O) (n < 1) Unk Ortho

50.01.07 Stepanovite Group

50.01.07.01 Stepanovite NaMgFe+++(C2O4)3•8-9(H2O) Unk Trig

50.01.07.02 Zhemchuzhnikovite NaMg(Al,Fe+++)(C2O4)3•8(H2O) Unk Trig

50.01.08

50.01.08.01 Wheatleyite Na2Cu(C2O4)2•2(H2O) P1 1

50.01.09 Zugshunstite Group

50.01.09.01 Zugshunstite-(Ce)! (Ce,Nd,La)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)•8(H2O) C 2/c 2/m

50.01.09.02 Coskrenite-(Ce)! (Ce,Nd,La)2(SO4)2(C2O4)•8(H2O) C 2/c 2/m

50.01.09.03 Levinsonite-(Y)! (Y,Nd,La)Al(SO4)2(C2O4)•12(H2O) P 2/n 2/m

50.01.10

50.01.10.01 Novgorodovaite! Ca2(C2O4)Cl2•2(H2O) I2/m 2/m

50.01.11

50.01.11.01 Natroxalate! Na2C2O4 P 2₁/a 2/m