Minerals in which a metal cation bonds to a halogen anion, chlorine, fluorine, bromine or iodine, following the Nickel-Strunz halide class. Includes halite, sodium chloride, and fluorite, calcium fluoride, both of which commonly form in evaporite or hydrothermal-vein settings. Belongs here: any mineral whose defining anion is a halogen. Does not belong here: a sulfate mineral such as gypsum that commonly occurs alongside halides in the same evaporite deposit but bonds to a sulfate ion rather than a halogen.
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Formation OriginA dominant halide anion (F-, Cl-, Br- or I-). 1 All Halide Minerals
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1. Wikipedia: Halide minerals
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Halide minerals are those minerals with a dominant halide anion (F-, Cl-, Br- and I-).
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