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Chlorargyrite: AgCl

Comments: Dark (by exposure to light) octahedral crystals of chlorargyrite with brownish goethite in a vug.
Location: Broken Hill, NWS, Australia. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Chlorartinite: Mg2(CO3)Cl(OH)·3(H2O)

Comments: Opaque white crystalline chlorartinite on volcanic glass.
Location: Vulcan Tolbachik, Kamchatka District, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chlorbartonite: K6Fe24S26(Cl,S)

Comments: Black grains of chlorbartonite in sodalite-natrolite aggregates.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibina massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Chloritoid: (Fe++,Mg,Mn)2Al4Si2O10(OH)4  
Paragonite: NaAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2

Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion of chloritoid in white, massive paragonite.
Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine, Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Chloro-potassichastingsite: KCa2(Fe++3MgFe+++)(Si6Al2)?8O22Cl2

Comments: Dark greenish black aggregate of chloro-potassichastingsite cyrstals.
Location: Dashkesan Deposit, Minor Caucasus, Azerbaijan. Scale: Grid Size 1 mm.
© Sergey Vasiliev / Systematic Mineralogy

Chloromenite: Cu9O2(SeO3)4Cl6  
Melanothallite: Cu2OCl2

Comments: Olive green crystalline chloromenite on blue-green melanothallite.
Location: North Break, Second Cone of main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chlorophoenicite: (Mn,Mg)3Zn2(AsO4)(OH,O)6

Comments: Clear tabular crystals of chlorophoenicite.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Chlorothionite: K2Cu(SO4)Cl2

Comments: Pale blue granular crystalline chlorothionite.
Location: Vesuvius, Napoli, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chloroxiphite: Pb3CuCl2(OH)2O2  
Mendipite: Pb3Cl2O2  
Crednerite: CuMnO2

Comments: Green, opaque granular chloroxiphite with mendipite and black crednerite.
Location: Higher Pitts Farm, Priddy, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chloroxiphite: Pb3CuCl2(OH)2O2  
Mendipite: Pb3Cl2O2  
Crednerite: CuMnO2

Comments: Radiating compact with clear to white crystalline mendipite with black crednerite and green chloroxiphite.
Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Choloalite: CuPb(Te++++O3)2  
Hessite: Ag2Te

Comments: Sparse green crusts of choloalite with metallic hessite.
Location: McAlpine Mine, Tuolumne County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chondrodite: (Mg,Fe++)5(SiO4)2(F,OH)2

Comments: Lustrous and semi-transparent crystal of reddish brown chondrodite 1 cm in size with magnetite and muscovite.
Location: Palabora mine, Loolekop, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Scale: 4 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Chondrodite: (Mg,Fe++)5(SiO4)2(F,OH)2  
Warwickite: Mg(Ti,Fe+++,Al)(BO3)O

Comments: Black crystalline warwickite with tan chondrodite in white marble.
Location: Amity, near Warwick, Orange County, New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chrisstanleyite: Ag2Pd3Se4  
Hakite: (Cu,Hg)3(Sb,As)(Se,S)3

Comments: Polished section showing chrisstanleyite (chr) is present as a single grain intergrown with clausthalite (cl) and eucairite (eu). cp (chalcopyrite), ha (hakite), di (selenian digenite), bo (bornite). (CanMin, v43:689).
Location: Low-temperature selenium-rich assemblage at Predborice, Czech Republic. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Chrisstanleyite: Ag2Pd3Se4  
Tischendorfite: Pd8Hg3Se9  
Tiemannite: HgSe

Comments: Polished section (PPL) showing tischendorfite (T, cream), clausthalite (Cl, off-white), tiemannite (Tie, gray), ankerite (black) and chrisstanleyite (C, greenish buff to pale brown).
Location: Eskaborner Stollen (Eskeborn Adit) at Tilkerode, Harz, Mountains, Germany. (CanMin v40:739). Scale: Picture Size 275 µm.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Christelite: Zn3Cu2(SO4)2(OH)6·4(H2O)  
Paratacamite: (Cu,Zn)2(OH)3Cl

Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with dark green paratacamite on matrix.
Location: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile. Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Chromatite: CaCrO4

Comments: Yellow, powdery coating of chromatite over carbonate rock. Associated minerals in the crust are halite and fluorapatite.
Location: Ma'aleh Adumim, Hatrurim formation, West Bank, Palestine. Scale: Box Size 29x29 mm.
© Pavel M. Kartashov

Chrombismite: Bi16CrO27

Comments: B&W image showing the relationship of grains of chrombismite to grains of chalcopyrite, pyrite and gold. (CanMin, v35:35).
Location: Quartz veins in the Jialu gold nine, Luonan County, Shaanxi Province, China. Scale: Feld of view: 0.12 mm.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Chromceladonite: KCrMg(Si4O10)(OH)2

Comments: Greenish gray, pearly aggregate of chromceladonite.
Location: Srednaja Padma, Onega Karelia, Russian Federation. Scale: Box Size 2 x 2 cm.
© Sonke Stolze / Systematic Minerals

Chromdravite: NaMg3(Cr,Fe+++)6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4

Comments: Dark green chromdravite grains in matrix.
Location: Srednyaya Padma U-V deposit, Zaonezhie peninsula, Lake Onega, Karelia Republic, Northern Region, Russia. Scale: Specimen Size 2 cm.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species