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B.
Minerals recognized
by the IMA / CNMNC
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Mineral groups and collective names
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Varieties, synonyms, discredited minerals
- Baiyuneboite- (Ce) → Cordylite- (Ce)
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Balavinskit (discredited 1971)
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Bakerit (discredited 2016)
- Ballas → diamond
- Barbertonite → Stichtite
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Bariomicrolite (discredited, possibly hydrokenomicrolite )
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Bariopyrochlore (discredited 2010)
- Barium-Alumopharmakosiderit → Bariopharmakoalumit
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Barium banisterite (questionable)
- Barium pharmacosiderite, barium pharmacosiderite → bariopharmacosiderite
- Barkevikite → Ferropargasite
- Barrandit → Strengit
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Barringtonite , not recognized
- Barsanovite → Georgbarsanovite
- Barthite → Austinite
- Barytocoelestin → Celestine
- Barite nitrate → nitro barite
- Basaluminite → Felsőbányait
- Bastite → serpentine group , pseudomorphic after enstatite
- Batavite → vermiculite
- Baumhauerite-2a → argentobaumhauerite
- Baumit → mixed crystal of the series Karyopilit - Greenalith
- Bavalite → Chamosite
- Beckelith → Britholite- (Ce)
- Befanamite → thortveitite
- Bellite → Mimetesite
- Rock crystal → quartz
- Mountain leather → actinolite , palygorskite , saponite , sepiolite or tremolite
- Beryllosodalite → Tugtupite
- Beta-Domeykit → Domeykit-β
- Beta-fergusonite → fergusonite- (Ce) -β , fergusonite- (Nd) -β or fergusonite- (Y) -β
- Beta quartz, β quartz → high quartz
- Beta-sulfur → β-sulfur
- Binnite → Tennantite
- Until then → Plancheit or Chrysocolla
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Bismuth microlite (discredited in 2010 because a mixture or zero-valued dominant member of the microlite group)
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Bismutopyrochlore (discredited in 2010 as a zero-valued dominant member of the pyrochlore group)
- Bismuthosphere → bismuthite
- Epsom salt → Epsomit
- Bitter spar → dolomite or magnesite
- Bixbit → red beryl
- Blanfordite → aegirine
- Leaf tellurium → Nagyágit
- Leaf serpentine → serpentine group
- Blue quartz → quartz
- Blue patch → lazulite
- Lead aragonite → aragonite
- Lead gloss → galena
- Lead horn ore → phosgenite
- Blockit → Penroseit
- Blomstrandin → Aeschynit- (Y)
- Blood stone → hematite
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Bobdownsit (discredited 2017)
- Boldyrevite → Hydrokenoralstonite or Gearksutite
- Borickyite → Delvauxite
- Boric acid → Sassolin
- Bort → diamond
- Bosjemanite → Pickeringite
- Brabantite → Cheralith
- Brandisit → Clintonite
- Braunite II → Braunite
- Brown iron stone → Limonite
- Braunspat → ankerite
- Bravoite → pyrite
- Mashlakite → Ilvait
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Brearleyite (discredited 2013)
- Breunerite → magnesite
- Brokenhillit, not recognized
- Bröggerite (Broeggerite) → Uraninite
- Bromochlorogyrite → Chlorargyrite
- Bromine silver → Bromargyrite
- Bronzite → enstatite
- Brunsvigit → Chamosit
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Buergerite → Fluor-Buergerite → Tourmaline group
- Colored copper gravel → Bornite
- Byssolite (Amiant) → actinolite
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Bytownite → mixed crystal of the series albite - anorthite
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