Sulfate mineral


The sulfate minerals are a class of minerals that include the sulfate ion within their structure. The sulfate minerals occur commonly in primary evaporite depositional environments, as gangue minerals in hydrothermal veins and as secondary minerals in the oxidizing zone of sulfide mineral deposits. The chromate and manganate minerals have a similar structure and are often included with the sulfates in mineral classification systems.
Sulfate minerals include:
-CNMNC proposes a new hierarchical scheme. This list uses it to modify the Classification of Nickel–Strunz.