Isometric (Cubic) System (original) (raw)

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Isometric (Cubic) System Properties

System Class Name AXES Planes Center Hermann- Maugin Symbols
2-Fold 3-Fold 4-Fold 6-Fold
Isometric Tetartoidal 3 4 - - - - 23
Diploidal 3 4 - - 3 yes 2/m 3
Hextetrahedral 3 4 - - 6 - 43m
Gyroidal 6 4 3 - - - 432
Hexoctahedral 6 4 3 - 9 yes 4/m 3 2/m

Partial listing of all valid minerals that crystallize in the Isometric System. There is not enough known about them to permit assignment into a class.

29 Minerals From the H-M Class Isometric - Unknown or Uncertain

Mineral Space Grp a Z Vol (Ang3) Calc Dens
Alumotungstite Unk 10.2000 8 1061.2 2.71
Amalgam Unk 9.9000 10 970.3 13.99
Antitaenite Unk
Bilibinskite Unk 8.1900 4 549.4 14.27
Blakeite Cubic ?
Brass Unk
Calvertite F m3m F 432 or F43m 5.3370 1 152.0 5.41
Cervelleite Unk 14.0300 24 2761.7 8.53
Choloalite Unk 12.5190 12 1962.1 6.50
Danbaite Unk 7.7620 12 467.7 8.28
Gutsevichite Unk
Hemusite Unk 10.8200 4 1266.7 4.47
Henryite Unk 12.2000 8 1815.9 7.96
Horsfordite Unk
Iridisite Unk 5.6350 8 178.9 13.87
Isochalcopyrite Unk
Kiddcreekite Unk 10.8560 4 1279.4 4.88
Kimrobinsonite Unk 3.8120 1 55.4 7.76
Kobeite-(Y) Cubic 5.0210 1 126.6 4.19
Kurilite P m3nP 43n 11.2700 1 1431.4 0.42
Mcalpineite Unk 9.5550 8 872.4 6.58
Sakuraiite P 432 P 43m or P m3m 5.4563 1 162.4 4.34
Sreinite I m3m I 432 I m3 or I 23 15.5728 4 3776.6 10.71
Telargpalite Unk 12.6000 16 2000.4 5.94
Tongxinite Unk 7.7350 12 462.8 8.29
Uhligite Unk 7.6390 1 445.8 3.29
Walfordite I2 I a3 11.0110 4 1335.0 2.94
Yttrocerite Unk
Zaratite Unk (in part amorphous) 6.1600 1 233.7 2.67

(* - Mineral Name is Not IMA Approved)
(! - New Dana Classification Number Has Been Changed or Added)
(? - IMA Discredited Mineral Species Name