Abstract
The mineral system is a computerized mineral reference book in a PC database format containing data for more than 3700 species and unnamed minerals, mineral is designed to function with the DayFlo tracker program (Stone, 1988), which allows very rapid searching of this database using the following fields, either singly or in combination: species name, name fragment, or synonym; elemental and/or polyatomic constituents; mineral group name; related species names(s); crystal system and space group; lattice parameters; JCPDS number; and/or mineral classification. Other information available for each species includes the chemical formula, number of formula units per unit cell, two general references, and an additional reference to the origin of the name.
