High-pressure minerals approved by IMA

Below is the complete list of high-pressure minerals approved by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA), arranged in the order of their new-mineral proposals.

No.Year*Mineral nameStructureChemistryReferences
1-diamonddiamondCPrior to 1960
21962coesiteunique monoclinic structureSiO2Chao et al. (1960)
31966lonsdaleitewurtziteCFrondel and Marvin (1967)
41967stishoviterutileSiO2Chao et al. (1962)
51968chaoitecarbyneCEl Goresy and Donnay (1968)
61968ringwooditespinelMg2SiO4Binns et al. (1969)
71969majoritegarnetMgSiO3Smith and Mason (1970)
81982wadsleyiteβ-spinelloidMg2SiO4Price et al. (1983)
91997akimotoiteilmeniteMgSiO3Tomioka and Fujino (1999)
102000allabogdaniteCo2Si(Fe,Ni)2PBritvin et al. (2002)
112001tuiteBa3(PO4)2Ca3(PO4)2Xie et al. (2003)
122001reiditescheeliteZrSiO4Glass et al. (2002)
132004lingunitehollanditeNaAlSi3O8Liu and El Goresy (2007)
142004seifertitescrutinyiteSiO2El Goresy et al. (2008)
152006dmitryivanoviteCaGa2O4-IICaAl2O4Mikouchi et al. (2009)
162007xieiteCaTi2O4FeCr2O4Chen et al. (2008)
172007akaogiitebaddeleyiteTiO2El Goresy et al. (2010)
182010icosahedriteicosahedral quasicrystalAl63Cu24Fe13Bindi et al. (2011)
192013ahrensitespinelFe2SiO4Ma et al. (2016)
202013tissintiteclinopyroxene(Ca,Na,v)AlSi2O6Ma et al. (2015)
212013liebermannitehollanditeKAlSi3O8Ma et al. (2018)
222014bridgmaniteperovskiteMgSiO3Tschauner et al. (2014)
232014jeffbeniteunique tetragonal structureMg3Al2Si3O12Nestola et al. (2016)
242015decagonitedecagonal quasicrystalAl71Ni24Fe5Bindi et al. (2015)
252015riesitesrilankite-like structureTiO2Tschauner et al. (2020)
262015zagamiitehexagonal barium ferriteCaAl2Si3.5O11Ma and Tschauner (2017)
272016hemleyiteilmeniteFeSiO3Bindi et al. (2017)
282016wangdaodeiteLiNbO3FeTiO3Xie et al. (2020)
292017stöffleritehollanditeCaAl2Si2O8Tschauner et al. (2021)
302017vestaiteschreyerite(Ti,Fe)Ti4O9Pang et al. (2018)
312017Ice-VIIcuprite-like structureH2OTschauner et al. (2018)
322017chenmingiteharmuniteFeCr2O4Ma et al. (2019)
332017feiiteSr2Tl2O5Fe2+2(Fe2+Ti4+)O5Ma et al. (2021)
342017liuiteGdFeO3FeTiO3Ma et al. (2021)
352017maohokiteharmuniteMgFe2O4Chen et al. (2019)
362017tschauneriteCaTi2O4(Fe2+)(Fe2+Ti4+)O4Ma et al. (2021)
372018asimowiteβ-spinelloidFe2SiO4Bindi et al. (2019)
382018proxidecagonitedecagonanite approximantAl34Ni9Fe2Bindi et al. (2018)
392018donwilhelmsiteunique hexagonal structureCaAl4Si2O11Fritz et al. (2020)
402018poirieriteε-spinelloidMg2SiO4Tomioka et al. (2021)
412018breyitewalstromiteCaSiO3Brenker et al. (2021)
422019hiroseiteperovskiteFeSiO3Bindi et al. (2020)
432020davemaoiteperovskiteCaSiO3Tschauner et al. (2020)
442020elgoresyiteFe7O9(Mg5Si2)O9Bindi et al. (2021)
452022zolenskyiteCrNb2Se4-Cr3S4-type structureFeCr2S4Ma and Rubin (2022)
462024ohtaniiteβ-spinelloidMgSiO3Bindi et al. (2024)

*Year for new mineral-proposal (IMA No.) to the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA).