Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Physical properties of minerals -- Elements of crystal chemistry -- Aspects of crystal structures -- Chemical composition of minerals -- Crystallography: external symmetry of minerals -- Internal order and symmetry in minerals -- Crystal properties -- Selected point groups and further aspects of space groups -- Crystal growth and defects: twinning, color, and magnetism -- Mineral stability and phase diagrams -- Post-crystallization processes in minerals -- Optical microscopy -- Analytical and imaging methods in mineral science -- Crystal chemistry and systematic descriptions of native elements, sulfides and sulfosalts -- Crystal chemistry and systematic descriptions of oxides, hydroxides, and halides -- Crystal chemistry and systematic descriptions of carbonates, nitrates, borates, sulfates, chromates, tungstates, molybdates, phosphates, arsenates, and vanadates -- Crystal chemistry of rock-forming silicates -- Systematic descriptions of rock-forming silicates -- Gem minerals -- Mineral assemblages: introduction to rock types -- Determinative tables.