List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (B)

This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letter B.

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: The data was exported from mindat.org on 29 April 2005; updated up to 'IMA2021'.

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 Strunz-mindat code.

Babingtonite on prehnite , Sichuan Province , China, size: 5.3 × 3.6 × 2.4 cm
Bannisterite on feldspar matrix, Broken Hill, New South Wales 9.7 × 5.2 × 4.5 cm
Barite , Cerro Warihuyn (Huarihuyn), Miraflores, Huamalíes Province, Huánuco Department, Peru
Barite on malachite
Benitoite on neptunite , Dallas Gem Mine, San Benito County, California , US, 2.9 x 1.4 x 1.0 cm
Spiky calcite scalenohedra with a coating of whitish benstonite on a layer of teal-colored fluorite
Lavender-colored beryl , quartz and feldspar
Beryl (var. aquamarine ) perched on matrix of smoky quartz
Beryl (var. emerald ), from Muzo Mine, Vasquez-Yacopí Mining District, Colombia
Beryl (var. golden beryl), from Chhappu, Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Beryl (var. goshenite); a cluster of tabular, hexagonal crystals, which sit on a bed of bladed muscovite
Beryl (var. morganite) with tourmaline, from Darra-i-Pech Pegmatite Field, Nangarhar (Ningarhar) Province, Afghanistan
Beryl (var. red beryl), from Harris Claim, Wah Wah Mountains, Utah, USA
Berthierite , Herja Mine, Baia Mare (Nagybánya), Romania, size: 9.0 x 7.2 x 6.0 cm
Bertrandite and rhodochrosite , Kounrad Massif, Balqash, Zhezqazghan Oblysy, Kazakhstan , 4.7 × 2.7 × 2.6 cm
Former betafite crystals (now probably pyrochlore group minerals), 13 × 13 × 7 mm (largest), Vakinankaratra , Antananarivo Province , Madagascar
Boltwoodite , 5.2 × 3 × 2 cm, Goanikontes Claim, Swakopmund District, Erongo Region , Namibia
Bournonite , 3.2 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm, Yaogangxian Mine, Yizhang County , Hunan , China
Brochantite and linarite , 8 × 8 × 2.5 cm, Mujuram, Morocco
Brookite , 2.3 × 1.3 × 0.1 cm, Taftan, Balochistan , Pakistan
Bustamite , 4 × 2.2 × 1.1 cm, Broken Hill, New South Wales , Australia