List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (U–V)
# List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (U–V)

This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letters U and V. The International Mineralogical Association is the international group that recognises new minerals and new mineral names; however, minerals discovered before 1959 did not go through the official naming procedure, although some minerals published previously have been either confirmed or discredited since that date. This list contains a mixture of mineral names that have been approved since 1959 and those mineral names believed to still refer to valid mineral species (these are called "grandfathered" species).

The list is divided into groups:

* Introduction • (Main synonyms)
* A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P–Q • R • S • T • U–V • W–X • Y–Z

The data was exported from mindat.org on 29 April 2005; updated up to 'IMA2021'.

The minerals are sorted by name, followed by the structural group (rruff.info/ima and ima-cnmnc by mineralienatlas.de, mainly) or chemical class (mindat.org and basics), the year of publication (if it's before of an IMA approval procedure), the IMA approval and the Strunz-mindat code. The first link is to mindat.org, the second link is to webmineral.com, and the third is to the Handbook of Mineralogy (Mineralogical Society of America).

## U

* Uakitite (nitride, rocksalt: IMA2018-003) 1.0 [no] [no]
* Uchucchacuaite (lillianite: IMA1981-007) 2.JB.40a $(AgMnPb_3Sb_5S_{12})$
* Udinaite (IMA2018-066) 8.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: sodium tetramagnesium trivanadate)
* $Uduminelite^Q$ (Y: 1950) 8.DM.30 [no] [no]
* Uedaite-(Ce) (epidote: IMA2006-022) 9.BG.05
* Uklonskovite (IMA1967 s.p., 1964) 7.DF.05
* Ulexite (Y: 1850) 6.EA.25 (IUPAC: sodium calcium hexahydro hexaoxopentaborate pentahydrate)
* Ulfanderssonite-(Ce) (IMA2016-107) 9.0 [no] [no]
* Ullmannite (ullmannite: 1843) 2.EB.25 (IUPAC: nickel sulfantimonide)
* Ulrichite (IMA1988-006) 8.EA.15
* Ulvöspinel (spinel, spinel: 1946) 4.BB.05 (IUPAC: diiron(II) titanum tetraoxide)
* Umangite (Y: 1891) 2.BA.25 (IUPAC: tricopper diselenide)
* Umbite (umbite: IMA1982-006) 9.DG.25
* Umbozerite (IMA1973-039) 9.HG.15
* Umbrianite (phyllosilicate: IMA2011-074) 9.E?. [no] [no]
* Umohoite (Y: 1953) 4.GC.10 (IUPAC: uranyl molybdate dihydrate)
* Ungavaite (IMA2004-020) 2.AC.35b (IUPAC: tetrapalladium triantimonide)
* Ungemachite (Y: 1938) 7.DG.10 (IUPAC: tripotassium octasodium iron(III) hexasulfate dinitrate hexahydrate)
* Upalite (IMA1978-045) 8.EC.05 (IUPAC: aluminium triuranyl oxyhydro diphosphate heptahydrate)
* Uralborite (Y: 1961, 1967 s.p.) 6.DA.35 (IUPAC: calcium tetrahydro dioxodiborate)
* Uralolite (Y: 1964) 8.DA.15
* Uramarsite (meta-autunite: IMA2005-043) 8.EB.15 (IUPAC: ammonium uranyl arsenate trihydrate)
* Uramphite (natroautunite: 1957) 8.EB.15 (IUPAC: ammonium uranyl phosphate trihydrate)
* Urancalcarite (IMA1983-052) 5.EA.10 (IUPAC: calcium triuranyl hexahydro carbonate trihydrate)
* Uranoclite (IMA2020-074) 4.0 [no] [no]
* Uraninite (fluorite: 1845) 4.DL.05 (IUPAC: uranium dioxide)
* Uranocircite (Y: 1877) 8.EB.05 [no] [no] (IUPAC: barium diuranyl diphosphate decahydrate)
* Uranophane (Y: 1853) 9.AK.15 (IUPAC: calcium diuranyl di(hydrotrioxosilicate) pentahydrate)
* Uranopilite (Y: 1882) 7.EA.05 (IUPAC: hexauranyl dioxyhexahydro sulfate tetradecahydrate)
* Uranopolycrase (columbite: IMA1990-046) 4.DG.05
* Uranosilite (IMA1981-066) 9.AK.40
* Uranospathite (Y: 1915) 8.EB.25
* Uranosphaerite (Y: 1873) 4.GB.65 (IUPAC: bismuth uranyl hydro dioxide)
* Uranospinite (Y: 1873) 8.EB.05 (IUPAC: calcium diuranyl diarsenate decahydrate)
* Uranotungstite (IMA1984-005) 7.HB.25 (IUPAC: iron diuranyl tetrahydro tungstanate dodecahydrate)
* Urea (IMA1972-031) 10.CA.35
* Uricite (IMA1973-055) 10.CA.40 (IUPAC: uric acid)
* Uroxite (hydrous uranyl oxalate: IMA2018-100) 10.AB. [no] [no]
* Ursilite (Y: 1957) 9.AK.35 [no]
* Urusovite (IMA1998-067) 8.BB.60 [no] (IUPAC: copper aluminium oxoarsenate)
* Urvantsevite (IMA1976-025) 2.EB.30 $(Pd(Bi,Pb)_2)$
* Ushkovite (laueite, laueite: IMA1982-014) 8.DC.30 (IUPAC: magnesium diiron(III) dihydro diphosphate octahydrate)
* Usovite (IMA1966-038) 3.CB.35 (IUPAC: dibarium calcium magnesium tetradecafluorodialuminate)
* Ussingite (Y: 1915) 9.EH.20
* $Ustarasite^Q$ (Y: 1955) 2.JB.40e
* Usturite (garnet: IMA2009-053) 4.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: tricalcium (antimony zirconium) tri(iron(III) tetraoxide))
* Utahite (tellurium oxysalt: IMA1995-039) 7.DE.25 (IUPAC: pentacopper trizinc octahydro tetra(tetraoxotellurate(VI)) heptahydrate)
* $Uvanite^Q$ (Y: 1914) 4.HB.35
* Uvarovite (garnet, garnet: IMA1967 s.p., 1832) 9.AD.25 (IUPAC: tricalcium dichromium tri(tetraoxysilicate))
* Uvite (tourmaline: IMA2019-113) 9.CK. [no] [no]
* Uytenbogaardtite (IMA1977-018) 2.BA.75 (IUPAC: trisilver gold disulfide)
* Uzonite (IMA1984-027) 2.FA.25 (IUPAC: tetrarsenic pentasulfide)

## V

* Vaesite (pyrite: 1945) 2.EB.05a (IUPAC: nickel disulfide)
* Vajdakite (IMA1998-031) 4.JC.20 [no] (IUPAC: di(dioxomolybdate(VI)) diarsenic(III) pentaoxide trihydrate)
* Valentinite (IMA1980 s.p., 1845) 4.CB.55 (IUPAC: diantimony trioxide)
* Valleriite (valleriite: 1871) 2.FD.30
* Valleyite (sodalite: IMA2017-026) 4.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: tetracalcium hexairon tridecaoxide)
* Vanackerite (apatite: IMA2011-114) 8.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: tetralead cadmium (chloro,hydro) triarsenate)
* Vanadinite (apatite: 1838) 8.BN.05 (IUPAC: pentalead chloro trivanadate)
* Vanadiocarpholite (carpholite: IMA2003-055) 9.DB.05 [no] (IUPAC: manganese(II) vanadium(III) aluminium hexaoxodisilicate tetrahydroxyl)
* Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite (tourmaline: IMA2012-034) 9.CK. [no] [no]
* Vanadio-oxy-dravite (tourmaline: IMA2012-074) 9.CK. [no] [no]
* Vanadiopargasite (Ca-amphibole: IMA2017-019) 9.D [no] [no]
* Vanadium (iron: IMA2012-021a) 1.AE. [no] [no]
* Vanadoallanite-(La) (epidote: IMA2012-095) 9.B?. [no] [no]
* Vanadoandrosite-(Ce) (epidote, allanite: IMA2004-015) 9.BG.05
* Vanadomalayaite (titanite: IMA1993-032) 9.AG.15 [no] (IUPAC: calcium vanadium oxy(tetraoxysilicate))
* Vanalite (IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 4.HG.15
* Vanarsite (polyoxometalate: IMA2014-031) 4.0 [no] [no]
* Vandenbrandeite (Y: 1932) 4.GB.45 (IUPAC: copper uranyl tetrahydroxide)
* Vandendriesscheite (Y: 1947) 4.GB.40
* Vanderheydenite (IMA2014-076) 8.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: hexazinc diphosphate tetrahydro sulfate heptahydrate)
* Vandermeerscheite (IMA2017-104) 8.0 [no] [no]
* Vaniniite (IMA2017-116) 8.0 [no] [no]
* Vanmeersscheite (IMA1981-009) 8.EC.20
* $Vanoxite^Q$ (Y: 1925) 4.HG.25 (IUPAC: tetravanadium(IV) divanadium(V) tridecaoxide octahydrate)
* Vantasselite (IMA1986-016) 8.DC.37 (IUPAC: tetraluminium trihydro triphosphate nonahydrate)
* Vanthoffite (Y: 1902) 7.AC.05 (IUPAC: hexasodium magnesium tetrasulfate)
* Vanuralite (IMA1967 s.p., 1963) 4.HB.20 (IUPAC: aluminium diuranyl hydro divanadate (8.5)hydrate)
* Vapnikite (double perovskite: IMA2013-082) 4.00. [no] (IUPAC: dicalcium calcium uranium hexaoxide)
* Varennesite (IMA1994-017) 9.EE.50 [no]
* Vargite (IMA2020-051) 8.DD. [no] [no]
* Variscite (IMA1967 s.p., 1837) 8.CD.10 (IUPAC: aluminium phosphate dihydrate)
* $Varlamoffite^Q$ (rutile: 1947) 4.DB.05 [no] [no] Note: possibly a variety of cassiterite.
* Varulite (alluaudite: Rd 2019, 1937) 8.AC.10 (IUPAC: disodium manganese (manganese iron(III)) triphosphate)
* Vashegyite (Y: 1909) 8.DB.10 (IUPAC: undecaaluminium hexahydro nonaphosphate octatriacontahydrate)
* Vasilite (IMA1989-044) 2.BC.25 $((Pd,Cu)_{16}(S,Te)_7)$
* Vasilseverginite (IMA2015-083) 8.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: nonacopper tetraoxodiarsenate disulfate)
* Vasilyevite (IMA2003-016) 3.DD.45 [no] (IUPAC: deca(dimercury) hexaoxide triodine diboron chloro carbonate)
* Västmanlandite-(Ce) (gatelite: IMA2002-025) 9.BG.55 [no]
* Vaterite (IMA1962 s.p., 1911) 5.AB.20 (IUPAC: anhydrous calcium carbonate)
* Vaughanite (IMA1987-055) 2.LA.20 $(TlHgSb_4S_7)$
* Vauquelinite (Y: 1818) 7.FC.05 (IUPAC: copper dilead hydro chromate phosphate)
* Vauxite (Y: 1922) 8.DC.35 (IUPAC: iron(II) dialumium dihydro diphosphate hexahydrate)
* Vavřínite (IMA2005-045) 2.CC.30 [no] (IUPAC: dinickel antimonide ditelluride)
* Väyrynenite (Y: 1954) 8.BA.05 (IUPAC: beryllium manganese(II) hydro phosphate)
* Veatchite (Y: 1938) 6.EC.15
* Veblenite (veblenite $(Si_8O_{22})$ ribbon: IMA2010-050) 9.0 [no] [no]
* Veenite (IMA1966-016) 2.HC.05d (IUPAC: dilead diantimonide pentasulfide)
* Velikite (stannite: IMA1996-052) 2.CB.15a (IUPAC: dicopper mercury tetrasulfa stannide)
* Vendidaite (IMA2012-089) 7.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: dialuminium trihydro chloro sulfate hexahydrate)
* Verbeekite (IMA2001-005) 2.EA.25 (IUPAC: lead diselenide)
* Verbierite (humite: IMA2015-089) 4.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: beryllium dichromium(III) titanium hexaoxide)
* Vergasovaite (vergasovaite: IMA1998-009) 7.BB.30 (IUPAC: tricopper oxomolybdate sulfate)
* Vermiculite (smectite-vermiculite: 1824) 9.EC.50
* $Vernadite^Q$ (Y: 1937) 4.FE.40 Note: possibly random-stacked birnessite.
* Verneite (IMA2016-112) 3.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: disodium tricalcium dialuminium tetradecafluoride)
* Verplanckite (IMA1964-011) 9.CE.10
* Versiliaite (IMA1978-068) 4.JA.30
* Vertumnite (IMA1975-043) 9.EG.25
* Veselovskýite (lindackerite: IMA2005-053) 8.CE.30 [no]
* Vésigniéite (Y: 1955) 8.BH.45 (IUPAC: tricopper barium dihydro divanadate)
* Vestaite (IMA2017-068) 4. [no] [no]
* Vesuvianite (vesuvianite: IMA1962 s.p., 1795) 9.BG.35
* Veszelyite (Y: 1874) 8.DA.30 (IUPAC: di(copper,zinc) zinc trihydro phosphate dihydrate)
* Viaeneite (IMA1993-051) 2.FD.10
* Vicanite-(Ce) (okanoganite: IMA1991-050) 9.AJ.35 [no]
* Vigezzite (aeschnyite: IMA1977-008) 4.DF.05
* Vigrishinite (seidozerite, murmanite: IMA2011-073) 9.B?. [no]
* Vihorlatite (IMA1988-047) 2.DC.05 [no] $(Bi_{24}Se_{17}Te_4)$
* Viitaniemiite (IMA1977-043) 8.BL.15 (IUPAC: sodium calcium aluminium trifluoro phosphate)
* Vikingite (lillianite: IMA1976-006) 2.JB.40a $(Ag_5Pb_8Bi_{13}S_{30})$
* Villamanínite (pyrite: IMA1989 s.p., 1920 Rd) 2.EB.05a (IUPAC: copper disulfide)
* Villiaumite (halite, rocksalt: 1908) 3.AA.20 (IUPAC: sodium fluoride)
* Villyaellenite (hureaulite: IMA1983-008a) 8.CB.10
* Vimsite (IMA1968-034) 6.BC.15 (IUPAC: calcium dioxotetrahydro diborate)
* Vincentite (IMA1973-051) 2.AC.05b (IUPAC: tripalladium arsenide)
* Vinciennite (IMA1983-031) 2.CB.35a $(Cu_{10}Fe_4SnAsS_{16})$
* Vinogradovite (Y: 1956) 9.DB.25
* Violarite (spinel, linnaeite: 1889) 2.DA.05 (IUPAC: iron(II) dinickel(III) tetrasulfide)
* Virgilite (quartz: IMA1977-009) 9.FA.15
* Vishnevite (cancrinite: 1944) 9.FB.05 (IUPAC: octasodium (hexaluminohexasilicate) tetraicosaoxosulfate dihydrate)
* Vismirnovite (schoenfliesite: IMA1980-029) 4.FC.10 (IUPAC: zinc tin hexahydroxide)
* Vistepite (IMA1991-012) 9.BD.25 (IUPAC: tetramanganese tin dioxodiborate di(heptaoxodisilicate) dihydroxyl)
* Viteite (IMA2019-040) 2.0 [no] [no]
* Vitimite (IMA2001-057) 6.H0.45 [no] (IUPAC: hexacalcium [tetradecahydroxide|sulfate|nonadecaoxotetradecaborate] pentahydrate)
* Vittinkiite (IMA2017-082a) 9.0 [no] [no] $(MnMn_3MnSi_5O_{15})$
* Vitusite-(Ce) (IMA1976-055) 8.AC.35 (IUPAC: trisodium cerium diphosphate)
* Vivianite (vivianite: 1817) 8.CE.40 (IUPAC: triiron(II) diphosphate octahydrate)
* Vladimirite (IMA1964 s.p., 1953 Rd) 8.CJ.25 (IUPAC: tetracalcium diarsenate hydroxoarsenate(V) tetrahydrate)
* Vladimirivanovite (sodalite: IMA2010-070) 9.FB. [no]
* Vladkrivovichevite (IMA2011-020) 3.D?. [no]
* Vladykinite (IMA2011-052) 9.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: trisodium tetrastrontium (iron(II) iron(III)) tetraicosaoxyctasiliate)
* Vlasovite (IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 9.DM.25 (IUPAC: disodium zirconium undecaoxotetrasilicate)
* Vlodavetsite (IMA1993-023) 7.DF.40 (IUPAC: dicalcium aluminium difluoro chloro disulfate tetrahydrate)
* Vochtenite (IMA1987-047) 8.EB.30
* Voggite (IMA1988-037) 8.DO.10 (IUPAC: disodium zirconium hydro phosphate carbonate dihydrate)
* Voglite (Y: 1853) 5.EE.05 (IUPAC: dicalcium copper uranyl tetracarbonate hexahydrate)
* Volaschioite (IMA2010-005) 7.DE.62 [no] (IUPAC: tetrairon dioxohexahydro sulfate dihydrate)
* Volborthite (IMA1968 s.p., 1838) 8.FD.05 (IUPAC: tricopper dihydro heptaoxodivanadate dihydrate)
* Volkonskoite (montmorillonite, smectite: IMA1987 s.p., 1831 Rd) 9.EC.40
* Volkovskite (IMA1968 s.p., 1966) 6.EC.20
* Voloshinite (mica: IMA2007-052) 9.0 [no]
* Voltaite (voltaite: 1841) 7.CC.25 (IUPAC: dipotassium pentairon(II) triiron(III) aluminium dodecasulfate octadecahydrate)
* Volynskite (IMA1968 s.p., 1966) 2.JA.20 (IUPAC: silver bismuth ditelluride)
* Vonbezingite (IMA1991-031) 7.DD.65 (IUPAC: hexacalcium tricopper dodecahydro trisulfate dihydrate)
* Vonsenite (ludwigite: 1920) 6.AB.30 (IUPAC: diiron(II) iron(III) dioxo(trioxoborate))
* Vorlanite (fluorite: IMA2009-032) 4.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: calcium uranium(VI) tetraoxide)
* Voronkovite (eudialyte: IMA2007-023) 9.CO.10 [no]
* Vorontsovite (tennantite: IMA2016-076) 2.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: (pentamercury copper) thallium dodecasulfa tetraarsenide)
* Voudourisite (kieserite: IMA2012-042) 7.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: cadmium sulfate monohydrate)
* Vozhminite (IMA1981-040) 2.BB.05 (IUPAC: tetranickel disulfarsenide)
* Vránaite (anhydrous aluminoborosilicate: IMA2015-084) 9.0 [no] [no]
* Vrbaite (Y: 1912) 2.HF.20 $(Hg_3Tl_4As_8Sb_2S_{20})$
* Vuagnatite (adelite: IMA1975-007) 9.AG.60 (IUPAC: calcium aluminium hydrotetraoxysilicate)
* Vulcanite (IMA1967 s.p., 1961) 2.CB.75 (IUPAC: copper(I) telluride)
* Vuonnemite (seidozerite, lamprophyllite: IMA1973-015) 9.BE.35 (IUPAC: hexasodium disodium diniobium trisodium titanium di(heptaoxodisilicate) diphosphate dioxy(oxyfluoride))
* Vuorelainenite (spinel, spinel: IMA1980-048) 4.BB.05 (IUPAC: manganese(II) divanadium(III) tetraoxide)
* Vuoriyarvite-K (labuntsovite: IMA1995-031) 9.CE.30b [no]
* Vurroite (IMA2003-027) 2.JB.65 $(Pb_{20}Sn_2(Bi,As)_{22}S_{54}Cl_6)$
* Vyacheslavite (IMA1983-017) 8.DN.20 (IUPAC: diuranium(IV) dihydro diphosphate pentahydrate)
* Vyalsovite (IMA1989-004) 2.FD.45 (IUPAC: calcium iron aluminium pentahydro sulfide)
* Vymazalováite (IMA2016-105) 2.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: trilead disulfa dibismuthide)
* Vysokýite (IMA2012-067) 4.0 [no] [no] (IUPAC: uranium(IV) tetra(dihydroxoarsenate(V)) tetrahydrate)
* Vysotskite (IMA1967 s.p., 1962) 2.CC.35a (IUPAC: palladium sulfide)
* Vyuntspakhkite-(Y) (IMA1982-040) 9.BG.40
