New Minerals Summarised Sept 2024–Jan 2025

A new issue of the journal New Mineral Names has been released, documenting every mineral species formally described between September 2024 and January 2025. The paper offers an objective examination of these new species and discusses their broader implications for classification by the International Mineralogical Association’s Commission on New Minerals and Mineralogists’ Classification (IMA‑CNMNC) ¹.

Classification of new species helps understand Earth's crust composition; if a newly described mineral turns out to be more abundant than previously thought it could significantly impact planetary geochemistry.