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

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

The first link is to mindat.org, the second link is to webmineral.com, and the third is to the Handbook of Mineralogy (Mineralogical Society of America).

Green falcondoite with a little olive willemseite , rare nickel minerals from Loma Peguera, Bonao , Monseñor Nouel Province , Dominican Republic ; size: 4.3 × 3.0 × 0.3 cm
Ferberite on matrix with gemmy quartz , Tazna Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District, Nor Chichas Province , Potosí Department , Bolivia; size: 4.3 × 3.7 × 3.5 cm
Euhedral, straw-yellow florencite -(Ce) crystals to 5 mm, on clear to pinkish magnesite rhombs; locality: Serra das Éguas, Brumado (Bom Jesus dos Meiras), Bahia , Brazil; size: 7.4 × 4.4 × 4.0 cm
Colorless fluorapophyllite sits atop a natural base of light pea-green gyrolite that has formed balls intermixed with gemmy little fluorapophyllites
Fluorite with baryte, from Berbes Mine, Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Fluorite plates, Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region , Namibia; size: 12.9 × 10.4 × 4.9 cm
Gemmy purple fluorite from Wushan Fluorite mine, De'an County , Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province , China; size: 6.2 × 4.2 × 3.9 cm
Rare red fluorite (1.4 cm) on quartz , which in turn is peppered with tiny balls of gyrolite ; Mahodari, Nasik District , Maharashtra , India; overall size: 7.4 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm
Blue fluorite "cap" on matrix, Minggang Fluorite mine, Shihe District , Xinyang Prefecture, Henan Province , China; size: 6.0 × 6.0 × 5.8 cm
Fluorapatite on quartz, largest crystal is about 1 cm; Lavra do Pederneira, Minas Gerais , Brazil
Foitite , Mt. Mica Quarry, Paris, Maine US; size: 1.9 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm
Forsterite with inclusions of ludwigite , Sapat Gali, Kohistan District , North-West Frontier Province , Pakistan; 2.8 × 2 × 1.1 cm
Fourmarierite (red-orange) and becquerelite (yellow) on uraninite (black), from the Shinkolobwe mine, Katanga province , Democratic Republic of the Congo ; size: 5 x 5 x 4 cm
Francevillite with curienite, from Mounana Mine, Franceville, Haut-Ogooué, Gabon
Franckeite var. potosíite, San José Mine, Cercado Province , Bolivia; field of view about 0.7 cm
Dark-gray tetrahedra of freibergite with golden chalcopyrite , from the Eagle Mine, Gilman, Colorado , US; size: 4.6 × 3.7 × 3.1 cm