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Approximately three thousand and five hundred mineral species are known and the structures of many of them have been determined. In a first approach to a structural classification of minerals, it would be impracticable to appropriately treat all of them; consequently, the necessity was feit to reduce their number and to deflne a convenient domain of mineral species to be considered in this book. We chose the most common minerals, and a few others were added which fulfilled some links in the structural classification, or had a certain particular structural interest.
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Lima-De-Faria, J. (1994). Systematics of minerals on structural grounds. In: Structural Mineralogy. Solid Earth Sciences Library, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8392-3_8
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