This is intended to be a list of all carbonate-bearing minerals for which names have been recently approved by the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. The list is in rough order of the approval of the mineral names. This is list is largely redundant with Tables I, II, III, and IV, in that it simply lists the minerals from Tables I, II, III, and IV that have been recognized since 1992. Only the minerals without numbers in the right hand column have not yet been transferred to Tables I, II, III, and IV. This page was last updated on September 19, 2002.

If you spot an error or a missing mineral, or if you have some other comment or query, please contact Bruce Railsback.

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Introduction to these tables.
Table I: The pure carbonate minerals.
Table II: The carbonate-bearing minerals with chloride, sulfate, or fluoride.
Table III: The carbonate-bearing minerals with phosphate, borate, arsenate, or silicate.
Table IV: The carbonate-bearing minerals with multiple other anions.
Abstract of the paper to which these table are an appendix.

² Year in which mineral name appeared in the references at right (not necessarily the year the mineral was named).

³ Volume and page on which minerals are reported in American Mineralogist (AM), Mineralogical Record (MR), Mineralogical Magazine (MM), Canadian Mineralogist (CM), or other publications. Bracketed references ("[ . . .]") are to reports of "New minerals approved in ____ by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, International Mineralogical Association" or "New minerals recently approved".

⁴ Column number.row number.mineral number in Figures 1 and 2 of Railsback's 1999 paper on "Patterns in the compositions, properties, and geochemistry of carbonate minerals" (Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 14, p. 1-20). (Parentheses indicate that entry of mineral postdates when paper went to press, so that mineral is not included in paper.) (Double parentheses indicate mineral has not yet been added to Tables I to IV).

⁵ These chemical formulae have been reported in the literature, but no IMA numbers or names have been published.

⁶ The reported "ideal" formula does not include CO₃, but the actual chemical formula reported has (SO₄)_0.57(CO₃)_0.41 for its non-silicate negative charge.