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No, it is just the decomposition of dead plants and animals. Minerals need to have a crystalline structure. Gas has no structure.

I think that USA is not strong enough to explore anything now. Dollar is falling, falling... they have too many problems inside there own country. And they have no possible rights on these territories. It can be only Russia or Denmark or Canada. The expeditions just need to prove who is right. About the wars - a lot of people were killed and many of them are common people, not soldiers. Today about 200 people were killed today by American bombs. Nobody is killed right now in the North Pole. It was a scientific expedition, not a war. About making Stalin a hero - do you know a joke about American president - "If you still don't have democracy then we go to your country with our bombs". I don't think he looks white and fluffy after those wars. And setting those weapons around Russia in surrounding countries. Even if Russians are trying to get more money they are not killing anybody.

There is this possible exceptionto consider-

methane hydrate, or clathrate, a semi-solid, hydrated phase that exists under high pressure and relatively low-temperature in the deep ocean, seems to enjoy definitive mineral status on at least one recognized database (http://webmineral.com/Mineral_Definition.shtml). Elsewhere, I have heard it called a "mineraloid".

No it is organic, and it is not a solid at room temperature