List of minerals

The entries on this alphabetized list of minerals all are blocks and items in the game that share a name with real-world minerals. Minerals are inorganic, naturally occurring crystalline materials.


 * – Overworld variety of quartz found in s
 * – carbonate mineral found in s
 * – frozen, crystalline water
 * – sky-fallen snowflakes (microscopic water crystals)
 * minerals
 * – electrically conductive metal that readily oxidizes
 * – very hard crystal of pure carbon
 * – precious gemstone found in mountains
 * – soft, precious metal
 * – hard, durable metal

Fictitious minerals
While the materials that make up this list are unique to Minecraft, either their names directly imply they're minerals or they may be commonly perceived as such. Their actual nature is up to one's own imagination.
 * – craftable dragon-healing crystal from the End
 * – brittle, glowing material from the Nether
 * – ultrarare, super-hard material that can't be destroyed in lava; found only in the Nether
 * – material dropped by the Wither
 * – Nether variety of quartz used as an ornamental block or for special redstone components
 * – rare building material found in Monuments
 * – material that can carry signals and activate moving parts

Rocks (non-minerals)
Minerals are not rocks. Minerals are crystals, and rocks are collections of minerals.