New minerals from the lunar preserve direct mineralogical evidence for the formation, transformation and preservation of lunar materials under the Moon's extreme physicochemical conditions, including low oxygen fugacity, dryness, high vacuum, intense irradiation and repeated impact processing, serving as a crucial link between lunar sample studies and planetary evolution. Based on returned samples from the Apollo, Luna, Chang'e missions and lunar meteorites, this paper summarizes and discusses the mineral classification, genetic mechanisms and mineralogical significance of new minerals from the lunar. The results show that a total of 10 new minerals from the lunar have been discovered and approved by the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (IMA-CNMNC) to date. Among them, the new minerals from returned lunar samples all come from the Apollo and Chang'e missions, including pyroxferroite, armalcolite, tranquillityite, yoshiokaite, changesite-(Y), magnesiochangesite-(Y) and changesite-(Ce). The new minerals from lunar meteorites samples include hapkeite, donwilhelmsite and magnesiochangesite-(Ce). These new minerals from the lunar can be classified into the oxygen-containing salt mineral class (mainly silicates and phosphates), the oxide and hydroxide mineral class (mainly oxides), and the class of native elements, intermetallic compounds, and carbides, silicides, nitrides, and phosphides (mainly silicides). Their genesis primarily involves dry and highly reduced magmatic differentiation, impact melting-devitrification and high-pressure phase transformation and vapor-phase deposition space weathering. In recent years, the discovery of the changesite-series rare-earth phosphates, provids new mineralogical constraints on lunar magmatic evolution, behavior of rare earth elements differentiation, and the diversity of lunar materials. Investigations of lunar-related mineral phases that have been previously reported but are not approved as new mineral species are also of great significance for understanding impact metamorphism, volatile preservation, redox processes, and lunar regolith evolution.