'

Mineral Colour Plates are small thumbnail images of minerals, as well as synthetic compounds and chemical elements, with articles that can be found in the MIROFOSS database. The following table shows all of the CUBIC CRYSTAL minerals found in MIROFOSS organized vertically by mineral group. Clicking on a mineral plate image will bring you to the corresponding MIROFOSS article. Please note this page may take a while to load on slower computers or with slower internet connections.

In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube. This is one of the most common and simplest shapes found in crystals and minerals. The cubic crystal system can be subdivided into other variants. Note that although the unit cell in these crystals is conventionally taken to be a cube, the primitive unit cell often is not. This is related to the fact that in most cubic crystal systems, there is more than one atom per cubic unit cell. A classic isometric crystal has square or pentagonal faces.

 
     
Aluminium Chromium Nickel Copper
       
     
       
       
       
     
     
Fluorite      
       
     
       
       
       
     
       
       
       
     
       
       
       
     
 
Grossular Uvarovite Almandine