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Coutinhoite: ThxBa1-2x(H2O)y(UO2)2Si5O13·H2O
Comments: New mineral, IMA 2003-025, from this pegmatite. This is a co-type specimen. Flaky crystals of choutinhoite to less than 0.25mm in gelatin capsule. Location: Lavra do Urucum, Serra do Urucum, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 0.25mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Comments: Irregular aggregate of yellow coutinhoite. (AmMin, v 89, p 721). Location: Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Covellite: CuS
Comments: Covellite crystal group. Location: Butte, Montana, USA. Scale: 8 x 4 cm. © Fabre Minerals
Covellite: CuS Nukundamite: (Cu,Fe)4S4
Comments: Metallic brownish rim of nukundamite with dark purplish-blue covellite on fine-grained pyrite. Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 7 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Cowlesite: CaAl2Si3O10·5-6(H2O)
Comments: Milky bluish translucent botryoidal cowlesite in vug. Location: Goble, Columbia County, Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Coyoteite: NaFe3S5·2(H2O)
Comments: Black and white image of a polished section showing coyoteite crystals showing chevron pattern developed by opposing cleavage sets. Continuous parallel lines are polishing scratches. (AmMin 68:252). Location: Coyote Peak mafic alkalic diatreme near Orick, Humboldt County, California. USA. Scale: Image size 0.26 mm. © American Mineralogist
Crandallite: CaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5·(H2O) Wardite: NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2(H2O)
Comments: Sliced and polished slab of yellow to white mixture of wardite and crandallite. Location: Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Utah Co., Utah, USA. Scale: 11x6x.6 cm. © John Betts - Fine Minerals
Crandallite: CaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5·(H2O) Phosphofibrite: KCuFe+++15(PO4)12(OH)12·12(H2O)
Comments: Olive-green colored fibrous phosphofibrite aggregates with white crandallite. Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Creaseyite: Pb2Cu2(Fe+++,Al)2Si5O17·6(H2O)
Comments: Sparse light green micro crystalline creaseyite on crystalline quartz. Location: Navajoa, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Comments: Green acicular sprays of creaseyite to 0.5mm on matrix. Location: Rawhide mine, Mohave County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Crednerite: CuMnO2 Mendipite: Pb3Cl2O2
Comments: Sooty, deep-black, granular to platy crednerite with mendipite. Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Crednerite: CuMnO2 Chloroxiphite: Pb3CuCl2(OH)2O2 Mendipite: Pb3Cl2O2
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
Crednerite: CuMnO2 Mendipite: Pb3Cl2O2 Chloroxiphite: Pb3CuCl2(OH)2O2
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
Creedite: Ca3Al2(SO4)(F,OH)10·2(H2O)
Comments: Colorless, bladed creedite crystals. Location: Mina Navidad, Durango, Mexico. Scale: Crystal size 1.4 cm. © John Veevaert
Creedite: Ca3Al2(SO4)(F,OH)10·2(H2O) Fluorite: CaF2
Comments: Well-developed, prismatic, reddish creedite crystals on green fluorite. Location: Mina Navidad, Rodeo, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 9 x 5 x 5.3 cm. © Fabre Minerals
Creedite: Ca3Al2(SO4)(F,OH)10·2(H2O) Smithsonite: ZnCO3
Comments: Purple transparent crystals of creedite to 6 mm on matrix of creamy botryoidal crystalline smithsonite. Location: Level 8 San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scale: 7 x 3.5 x 2 cm. © Dan Weinrich
Crichtonite: (Sr,La,Ce,Y)(Ti,Fe+++,Mn)21O38
Comments: Black crichtonite crystal in quartz. Location: Kriegalptal, Binntal, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Criddleite: TlAg2Au3Sb10S10 Aurostibite: AuSb2
Comments: B&W polished section image of criddleite (grey) surrounding and penetrating aurostibite (white) within quartz gangue. (MinMag, v52:691). Location: Hemlo gold deposit, Hemlo, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See Image. © Mineralogical Magazine
Cristobalite: SiO2
Comments: White crystals of cristobalite frozen in obsidian glass. Location: Cerro San Cristobal, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Scale: Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Crocoite: PbCrO4
Comments: Prismatic crystals of red-orange crocoite. Location: Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania. Scale: Specimen size 5 cm. © Dave Barthelmy