Category:Phosphate minerals

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Phosphate minerals contain the phosphate, PO43−, anion.

In standard mineral classification systems (in both the Dana[1] and Strunz[2] systems) the phosphate class includes the arsenates, vanadates and the polyvanadates. Strunz includes the vanadates(V, VI) in the oxides class.