Documents most frequently used for preparing (in the eighties)
and revising (later) the mineral database.

Manuals and Mineral lists

• Anthony John W., Bideaux Richard A., Bladh Kenneth W., Nichols Monte C., Handbook of Mineralogy, Volume I, Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Mineral Data Publishing, 1990.
• Anthony John W., Bideaux Richard A., Bladh Kenneth W., Nichols Monte C., Handbook of Mineralogy, Volume II, Silica, Silicates, Mineral Data Publishing, 1995.
• Anthony John W., Bideaux Richard A., Bladh Kenneth W., Nichols Monte C., Handbook of Mineralogy, Volume III, Halides, Hydroxides, Oxides, Mineral Data Publishing, 1997.
• Anthony John W., Bideaux Richard A., Bladh Kenneth W., Nichols Monte C., Handbook of Mineralogy, Volume IV, Arsenates, Phosphates, Vanadates, Mineral Data Publishing, 2000.
• Anthony John W., Bideaux Richard A., Bladh Kenneth W., Nichols Monte C., Handbook of Mineralogy, Volume V, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Mineral Data Publishing, 2003.
• Armbruster, Thomas, Bonazzi, Paola, Akasaka, Masahide, Bermanec, Vladimir, Chopin, Christian, Gieré, Reto, Heuss-Assbichler, Soraya, Liebscher, Axel, Menchetti, Silvio, Pan, Yuanming, Pasero, Marco, Recommended Nomenclature of Epidote-Group Minerals, Eur. J. Mineral., 2006, 18, 551-567.
• Artini E., I Minerali, 4th ed., Hoepli, 1934.
• Atencio, Daniel, Andrade, Marcelo B., Christy, Andrew G., Gieré, Reto, Kartashov, Pavel M., The Pyrochlore Supergroup of Minerals: Nomenclature, The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 48, pp. 673-698, 2010.
• Aubert G., Guillemin C., Pierrot R., Précis de Minéralogie, Masson, 1978.
• Back Malcolm E., Mandarion Joseph A., Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species 2008, The Mineralogical record Inc., 2008.
• Bailey, S. W., Nomenclature for Regular Interstratifications, American Mineralogist, Volume 67, pages 394-398, 1982.
• Bayliss Peter, Erd Dick C., Mrose Mary E., Sabina Ann P., Smith Deane K., Mineral Powder Diffraction File, Data Book, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 1986.
• Bayliss, Peter, Kaesz, Herbert D., Nickel, Ernest H., The Use of Chemical-Element Adjectival Modifiers in Mineral Nomenclature, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 43, pp. 1429-1433 (2005).
• Bayliss, Peter, Levinson, A. A., A System of Nomenclature for Rare-Earth Minerals: Revision and Extension, The American Mineralogist, Vol .73, pp. 422-423, 1988.
• Back, Malcolm E., Mandarino, Joseph A., Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species 2008, The Mineralogical Record Inc., 2008.
• Betekhtin, A. G., Kurs Mineralogii, Mir, Moskva, 1968.
• Beudant F. S., Traité élémentaire de Minéralogie, Verdière, 1830.
• Blackburn, William H., Dennen, William H., Encyclopedia of Mineral Names, Mineralogical Association of Canada, 1997.
• Burke, Ernst A.J., A Mass Discreditation of GQN Minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 44, pp. 1557-1560, 2006.
• Burke, Ernst A.J., Tidying up Mineral Names: an IMA-CNMNC Scheme for Suffixes, Hyphens and Diacritical Marks, Mineralogical Record, vol. 39, no. 2 (March-April 2008).
• Burke, Ernst A.J. , Leake, Bernard E., "Named Amphiboles": A New Category of Amphiboles recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA), and the proper order of Prefixes to be used in Amphibole Names, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 42, pp. 1881-1883, 2004.
• Buttgenbach H., Les Minéraux et les Roches, Études pratiques de Cristallographie, Pétrographie et Minéralogie, 2e éd. Dunod.
• Chukanov, Nikita V., Pekov, Igor V., Khomyakov, Alexander P., Recommended Nomenclature for Labuntsovite-Group Minerals, Eur. J. Mineral., 2002, 14, 165-173.
• Clark A. M., Hey's Mineral Index, Natural History Museum Publications, Chapman & Hall, 1993.
• Coombs, Douglas S., Alberti, Alberto, Armbruster, Thomas, Artioli, Gilberto, Colella, Carmine, Galli, Ermanno, Grice, Joel D., Liebau, Friedrich, Mandarino, Joseph A. Minato, Hideo, Nickel, Ernest H. Passaglia, Elio, Peacor, Donald R., Quartieri, Simona, Rinaldi, Romano, Ross, Malcolm, Sheppard, Richard A., Tillmanns, Ekkehart, Vezzalini, Giovanna, Recommended Nomenclature for Zeolite Minerals: Report of the Subcommittee on Zeolites of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 35, pp. 1571-1606, 1997.
• Dana Edward Salisbury, Ford William E., A Textbook of Mineralogy, 4th ed., John Wiley, 1949.
• Deer W.A., Howie R.A., Zussman J., An Introduction to the Rock forming Minerals, 2nd ed, Longman, 1993.
• Embrey Peter G., Fuller John P., A Manual of New Mineral Names 1892 - 1978, British Museum, 1983.
• Fleischer Michael, Mandarino Joseph A.,Glossary of Mineral Species 1995, The Mineralogical Record Inc., 1995.
• Frost, Ray L., Wain, Daria L., Martens, Wayde N., Jagannadha Reddy, B., The Molecular Structure of Selected Minerals of the Rosasite Group, - an XRD, SEM and Infrared Spectroscopic Study, Polyhedron  26(2), pp. 275-283, 2007.
• Gaines, R.W., Skinner, H.C.W., Foord, E.E., Mason, B., Rosenzweig, A., Dana's New Mineralogy, John Wiley, 1995.
• Gramaccioli C.M., Minerali alpini e prealpini, Atlas, 1975.
• Grew, E. S., Hålenius, U., Pasero, M., Barbier, J., Recommended Nomenclature for the Sapphirine and Surinamite Groups (Sapphirine Supergroup), Mineralogical Magazine, August 2008, Vol. 72(4), pp. 839–876.
• Grew, E. S., Locock, A. J., Mills, S. J., Galuskina, I. O., Galuskin, E. V., Hålenius, U., Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup, American Mineralogist, Volume 98, pages 785–811, 2013
• Grim Ralph E., Clay Mineralogy, 2nd ed, McGraw-Hill, 1968.
• Guggenheim, S., Adams, J. M., Bain, D. C., Bergaya, F., Brigatti, M. F., Drits, V. A., Formoso, M. L. L., Galán, E., Kogure, T., Stanjek, H., Summary of Recommendations of Nomenclature Committees relevant to Clay Mineralogy: Report of the Association Internationale pour l'Étude des Argiles (AIPEA) Nomenclature, Committee for 2006, Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol. 54, No. 6, 761-772, 2006.
• Hatert, Frédéric, Burke, Ernst A.J., The IMA-CNMNC Dominant-Constituent Rule revisited and extended, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 46, pp. 717-728, 2008.
• Henry Darrell J., Novák Milan, Hawthorne Frank C., Ertl Andreas, Dutrow Barbara L., Uher Pavel, Pezzotta Federico, Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals, American Mineralogist, Volume 96, pages 895–913, 2011.
• Haüy René Just, Traité de Minéralogie, Bachelier, 1822.
• Hawthorne, Frank C., Ungaretti, Luciano , Oberti, Roberta, Site Population in Minerals: Terminology and Presentation of Results of Crystal Structure Refinement, The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 33, pp.907-911, 1995.
• Hey Max H., An Index of Mineral Species arranged chemically, 2nd ed., British Museum, 1975.
• Hey Max H., Appendix to the Second Edition of An Index of Mineral Species and Varieties arranged chemically, 2nd ed., Trustees of the British Museum, 1963.
• Hey Max H., A Second Appendix to the Second Edition of An Index of Mineral Species and Varieties arranged chemically, 2nd ed., Trustees of the British Museum, 1974.
• Johnsen, Ole, Ferraris, Giovanni, Gault, Robert A., Grice, Joel D., Kampf, Anthony R., Pekov, Igor V., The Nomenclature of Eudialyte-Group Minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 41, pp. 785-794, 2003.
• Kipfer Alex, Mineralindex, Ott Verlag, 1974.
• Lacroix A., Minéralogie de la France et de ses colonies, Baudry, Béranger, 1893-1913.
• Lacroix A., Minéralogie de la France et de ses anciens Territoires d'Outre-mer, Blanchard, 1964.
• Leake, Bernard E., Woolley, Alan R., Birch, William D., Burke, Ernst A.J., Ferraris, Giovanni, Grice, Joel D., Hawthorne, Frank C., Kisch, Hanan J., Krivovichev, Vladimir G., Schumacher, John C., Stephenson, Nicholas C.N., Whittaker, Eric J.W., Nomenclature of Amphiboles: Additions and Revisions to the International Mineralogical Association's 1997 Recommendations, The Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 41, pp. 1355-1362, 2003.
• Levinson, A. A., A System of Nomenclature for Rare-Earth Minerals, The American Mineralogist, Vol .51, January_February 1966.
• Mandarino Joseph A., New Minerals 1990-1994, The Mineralogical Record Inc., 1997.
• Mandarino Joseph A., Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species 1999, The Mineralogical Record Inc., 1999.
• Mandarino Joseph A., Diacritical Marks in Mineral Names, The Mineralogical Record, vol. 38, May-June 2007.
• Mills, Stuart J., Hatert, Frédéric, Nickel, Ernest H., Ferraris, Giovanni, The Standardisation of Mineral Group Hierarchies: Application to Recent Nomenclature Proposals, Eur. J. Mineral., 2009, 21, 1073-1080, Published online October 2009.
• Mills, S. J., Christy, A. G., Génin, J.-M. R., Kameda, T., Colombo, F., Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup: natural layered double hydroxides, Mineralogical Magazine, October 2012, Vol. 76(5), pp. 1289–1336
• Milovsky A. V., Kononov O. V., Mineralogy, Mir, 1985.
• Moëlo, Yves, Makovicky, Emil, Mozgova, Nadejda N., Jambor, John L., Cook, Nigel, Pring, Allan, Paar, Werner, Nickel, Ernest H., Raeser, Stephan G, Karup-Møller, Sven, Balic-Žunic, Tonči, Mumme, William G., Vurro, Filippo, Topa, Dan, Bindi, Luca, Bente, Klaus, Shimizu, Masaaki, Sulfosalt Systematics: a Review. Report of the sulfosalt Sub-Committee of the IMA Commission on Ore Mineralogy, Eur. J. Mineral. 2008, 20, 7-46, Published online February 2008.
• Morimoto, N., Fabries, J., Ferguson, V, I., Ginzburg, V., Ross, M., Seifert, F. A., Zussman, J., Aoki, K., Gottardi, G., Nomenclature of Pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, September 1988, Vol. 52, pp. 535 sq.
• Nickel, Ernest H., Grice, Joel D., The IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names: Procedures and Guidelines on Mineral Nomenclature, 1998, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 36, 1998.
• Nickel, E. H., Mandarino, J. A., Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, and Guidelines on Mineral Nomenclature, Mineralogical Journal, vol. 13, No 8, pp. 505-532, October 1987.
• Nickel Ernest H., Nichols Monte C., Mineral Reference Manual, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
• Niggli P., Lehrbuch der Mineralogie, Borntraeger, 1920.
• Oberti, Roberta, Della Ventura, Giancarlo, Ottolini, Luisa, Hawthorne, Frank C., Bonazzi, Paola, Re-definition, Nomenclature and Crystal-Chemistry of the Hellandite Group, American Mineralogist, Volume 87, pp. 745–752, 2002.
• Palache, Berman, Frondel, Dana's System of Mineralogy, 7th ed., Wiley & Sons, 1944, 1952, 1962.
• Parker R. L., Stalder H. A., De Quervain F., Niggli P., Graeser St., Die Mineralfunde der Schweiz, Wepf, 1973.
• Picot P., Johan Z., Atlas of Ore Minerals, BRGM, 1982.
• Phillips William R., Griffen Dana T., Optical Mineralogy, The Nonopaque Minerals, Freeman, 1981.
• Ramdohr Paul, Strunz Hugo, Klockmanns Lehrbuch der Mineralogie, 16th ed., Enke, 1978.
• Ramdohr Paul, The Ore Minerals and their Intergrowths, 3rd ed., Pergamon, 1969.
• Rieder, Milan, Cavazzini, Giancarlo, D'yakonov, Yurii S., Frank-Kamenetskii, Viktor A., Gottardi, Glauco, Guggenheim, Stephen, Koval', Pavel V., Müller, Georg, Neiva, Ana M.R. , Radoslovich, Edward W., Robert, Jean-Louis, Sassi, Francesco P., Takeda, Hiroshi, Weiss, Zdenek, Wones, David R., Nomenclature of the Micas, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 36, 1998.
• Roberts Willard L., Campbell Thomas J., Rapp George R., Wilson Wendell E., Encyclopedia of Minerals, 2nd ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
• Roberts Willard L., Rapp George R., Weber Julius, Encyclopedia of Minerals, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974.
• Rössler Hans J., Lehrbuch der Mineralogie, VEB, 1987.
• Roth, Philippe, Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss Individuals, Kristallographic Verlag, 2007.
• Sanero, E., Gottardi, G., Nomenclature and Crystal-Chemisty of Axinites, The American Mineralogist, vol 53, July August, 1968.
• Smith, Dorian G.W., Nickel, Ernest H., A System of Codification for Unnamed Minerals: Report of the Subcommittee for Unnamed Minerals of the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification, The Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. 45, pp. 983-1055, 2007.
• Smith, Dorian G.W., Nickel, Ernest H., IMA Report. Codification of Unnamed Minerals, American Mineralogist, Volume 93, pages 707-709, 2008.
• Stalder H.A., Wagner A., Graeser St., Stucker P., Mineralienlexikon der Schweiz, Wepf, 1998.
• Strunz Hugo, Mineralogische Tabellen, 8th ed., Geest & Portig, 1982.
• Strunz Hugo, Nickel Ernest H., Strunz Mineralogical Tables, 9th ed., Schweizerbart'sche, 2001.
• Tischendorf, G., Förster, H.-J., Gottesmann, B., Rieder, M., True and Brittle Micas: Composition and Solid-Solution Series, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2007, Vol. 71(3), pp. 285-320.
• Weiss Stefan, Das Grosse Lapis Mineralienverzeichnis, Weise Verlag, 1994.
• Weiss Stefan, Das Grosse Lapis Mineralienverzeichnis, Weise Verlag, 2008.
• Zoltai Tibor, Stout James A., Mineralogy, Concepts and Principles, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984.

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