Fifty Great Minerals Meme

This meme - a great one - was recently started by Chuck at Lounge of the Lab Lemming. As a typical, unruly geologist, he didn't list any rules about tagging, just the following:

Use bold to indicate minerals you’ve seen in the wild. Italics is for those seen in laboratories, museums, stores, or other non field locations. Ex pet nerds may use underlining to indicate those that they’ve grown with their own two hands. And I won’t bother with stuff you intend on seeing- if you didn’t want to see all these minerals yourself, you’d be spending your precious lunch hour on a physics or biomedical blog.

Here are mine:

Andalusite (note the spelling change)
Apatite
Barite
Beryl
Biotite
Chromite
Chrysotile
Cordierite
Corundum
Diamond
Dolomite
Florencite
Galena
Garnet
Graphite
Gypsum
Halite
Hematite
Hornblende
Illite
Illmenite
Kaolinite
Kyanite
Lepidolite
Limonite
Magnetite
Molybdenite
Monazite
Nepheline
Olivine
Omphacite - possibly seen "in the wild" but possibly doesn't count, not even in horseshoes or handgrenades!
Opal
Perovskite
Plagioclase
Pyrite
Quartz
Rutile
Sanidine
Sillimanite
Silver (native) and Gold (native)
Sphalerite
Staurolite
Sulfur (native) - another spelling change
Talc
Tourmaline
Tremolite
Turquoise
Vermiculite
Willemite
Zeolite
Zircon

Hypocentre at Hypo-thesis has already participated in and contributed to this minerals project (the native gold), and surely others will follow.

Note: spelling changes on this list are entirely the responsibility of this particular blog author and weren't agreed to by any others or caused by any undo coercion from outside sources.