A couple of questions

What is the largest group of minerals?

Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups. They are the largest and most important class of minerals and make up approximately 90 percent of Earth's crust.

What is the largest group of minerals called?

Silicates Silicates are by far the largest mineral group. Feldspar and quartz are the two most common silicate minerals. Both are extremely common rock-forming minerals.

What elements are a part of the largest mineral group?

About 1,000 silicate minerals are known. This makes silicates the largest mineral group. Silicate minerals make up over 90 percent of Earth's crust! Silicates contain silicon atoms and oxygen atoms.

What are the two major groups of minerals?

All minerals, however, can be classified into two main groups—silicate minerals and nonsilicate minerals—based on the chemical compositions of the minerals.

What are the most common mineral groups?

The five most common mineral groups in rock are the silicates, carbonates, sulfates, halides, and oxides. There are about 4000 known minerals in the Earth's crust, and about 92 % of them are silicates. The most abundant silicate is called plagioclase.

What are the main mineral groups and how are they classified?

There are 7 major mineral groups: Silicates, Oxides, Sulfates, Sulfides, Carbonates, Native Elements, and Halides.

How are minerals grouped?

Minerals are classified according to their chemical properties. Except for the native element class, the chemical basis for classifying minerals is the anion, the negatively charged ion that usually shows up at the end of the chemical formula of the mineral. For example, the sulfides are based on the sufur ion, S2–.

Which is a group of minerals?

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral group is a set of mineral species with essentially the same crystal structure and composed of chemically similar elements.