Editing Mineral (section)

===Recent advances===
Mineral classification schemes and their definitions are evolving to match recent advances in mineral science. Recent changes have included the addition of an organic class, in both the new Dana and the [[Strunz classification]] schemes.<ref name=Dana>{{cite web|title=Dana Classification 8th edition – Organic Compounds|url=http://www.mindat.org/dana.php?a=50|website=mindat.org|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=12 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112130718/http://www.mindat.org/dana.php?a=50|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Strunz>{{cite web|title=Nickel-Strunz Classification – silicates (Germanates) 10th edition|url=https://www.mindat.org/strunz.php?a=9|website=mindat.org|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105215152/https://www.mindat.org/strunz.php?a=9|url-status=live}}</ref> The organic class includes a very rare group of minerals with [[hydrocarbons]]. The IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names adopted in 2009 a hierarchical scheme for the naming and classification of mineral groups and group names and established seven commissions and four working groups to review and classify minerals into an official listing of their published names.<ref name="Mills09" /><ref>[http://www.ima-mineralogy.org/sciactivities.html IMA divisions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810045840/http://www.ima-mineralogy.org/sciactivities.html |date=2011-08-10 }}. Ima-mineralogy.org (2011-01-12). Retrieved on 2011-10-20.</ref>  According to these new rules, "mineral species can be grouped in a number of different ways, on the basis of chemistry, crystal structure, occurrence, association, genetic history, or resource, for example, depending on the purpose to be served by the classification."<ref name="Mills09">{{cite journal | last1=Mills | first1=J.S. | last2=Hatert | first2=F. | last3=Nickel | first3=E.H. | last4=Ferraris | first4=G. | title=The standardisation of mineral group hierarchies: application to recent nomenclature proposals | journal=European Journal of Mineralogy | volume=21 | pages=1073–80 | doi=10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0021-1994 | date=2009 | issue=5 | bibcode=2009EJMin..21.1073M | hdl=2268/29163 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>