Over 4000.
There are many branches in science. Mineralogy the study of minerals. However, it is also the study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals
Alot.
A mineral is a natural substance that is solid at room temperature and has an ordered atomic structure. There are about forty common minerals, such as aluminum, barium and copper.
There are 2.484 minerals approved by the International Mineralogical Association.
2000
I am answering my own question but there are 3000 minerals known to Earth.... if thats just how many rocks that are known to Earth than think about how many minerals that are not known to Earth.
2000
According to the Mineralogical Society of America there are approximately 3800 known minerals. About 30 to 50 new minerals are described and one or two minerals are discredited each year. The most complete listing of minerals is J. Mandarino Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species 1999 published by the Mineralogical Record.
There are actually well over 4,000 known minerals as of 2010; of these, about two dozen form the bulk of the rock of the earth's crust.
There are approximately 30,000 known species of protozoans.
There are approximately 900 known species.
20