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Carminite: PbFe+++2(AsO4)2(OH)2

Comments: Brownish red carminite crystals in matrix.
Location: San Rafael mine, Gabbs, Nye County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Carnallite: KMgCl3·6(H2O)  
Rinneite: K3NaFe++Cl6

Comments: Orange to light brown rinneite with colorless carnallite.
Location: Merkers, Bad Salzungen, Rhön, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Carnallite: KMgCl3·6(H2O)

Comments: Clear crystalline massive carnallite.
Location: Stassfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Carnallite: KMgCl3·6(H2O)  
Rokuhnite: Fe++Cl2·(H2O)

Comments: Reddish brown rokuhnite, with carnallite (deliquescent).
Location: Salzdetfurth Mine, Hildesheim, near Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Carnotite: K2(UO2)2V2O8·3(H2O)

Comments: Bright yellow, fluorescent crystals of carnotite on sandstone.
Location: Anderson Mine, Yavapai County, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Carpholite: MnAl2Si2O6(OH)4

Comments: Golden yellow compact radiating massive carpholite.
Location: Schlaggenwald, Bohemia, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Carraraite: Ca3Ge(OH)6(SO4)(CO3 )·12H2 O

Comments: Scanning electron microscope image of tabular, hexagonal carraraite crystals. (AmMin 86:1294).
Location: Marble quarries of the Carrara basin (Apuan Alps, Italy). Scale: See Image.
© American Mineralogist

Carrboydite: (Ni,Cu)14Al9(SO4,CO3)6(OH)43·7(H2O)

Comments: bluish green crusts of carrboydite.
Location: Carr-Boyd Nickel Mine, Western Australia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Carrollite: Cu(Co,Ni)2S4

Comments: Carrollite crystal with minor attached matrix.
Location: Komoto-Frond in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: 1.2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Carrollite: Cu(Co,Ni)2S4

Comments: Polished Section (PPL) image of corroded remnants of early, Ni-carrollite (grey-carr) in the core of a large pyrite (py) atoll structure wtth brown bornite and golden chalcopyrite.
Location: Giant Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: F.V.= 2 mm.
© National Resouces of Canada

Caryinite: (Na,Pb)(Ca,Na)(Ca,Mn++)(Mn++,Mg)2(AsO4)3  
Rhodonite: (Mn++,Fe++,Mg,Ca)SiO3

Comments: Yellow crystalline caryinite with pink rhodonite.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Caryochroite: (Na,Sr)3(Fe+++,Mg)10[Ti2Si12O37](O,OH)9·8H2O

Comments: Hazel brown aggregate of caryochroite tubes. (CanMin, v44:1331).
Location: Umbozero mine, Alluaiv, Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen size 5 x 6 cm.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Caryopilite: (Mn++,Mg,Zn,Fe++)3(Si,As)2O510(OH,Cl)4

Comments: Small white balls of caryopilite next to larger barite crystals.
Location: Langban, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Cascandite: Ca(Sc,Fe++)Si3O8(OH)  
Jervisite: (Na,Ca,Fe++)(Sc,Mg,Fe++)Si2O6

Comments: White, acicular jervisite crystals and pink cascandite crystals.
Location: Seula min,, Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy. Scale: Crystal Size 1 mm.
© Sergio Varvello / Mineral Service

Cassedanneite: Pb5(VO4)2(CrO4)2·(H2O)

Comments: Crystalline mass of cassedanneite, colored green by included descloizite.
Location: Berezovskoye Mine, near Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk District, Middle Urals, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Cassiterite: SnO2

Comments: Very brilliant black crystals of cassiterite on white mica.
Location: Xue Bao Diang, Sichuan, China. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Fabre Minerals

Cassiterite: SnO2

Comments: Gemmy, doubly terminated cassiterite on quartz-mica matrix.
Location: Langcangjiang river area, Yunnan, China. Scale: 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Caswellsilverite: NaCrS2

Comments: B&W PPL image showing anhedral grain of caswellsilverite (Cw) associated with daubrdelite (Db), ferromagnesian alabandite (Ab) and kamacite (Km), containing perryite (Pr), as well as enstatite (En).
Location: Norton County enstatite achondrite meteorite. (AmMin, v67:132). Scale: Scale Bar 0.1 mm.
© American Mineralogist

Caswellsilverite: NaCrS2  
Schollhornite: Na0.3CrS2·(H2O)  
Daubreelite: Fe++Cr2S4

Comments: Polished section (PPL) of schiillhornite (Sh), coexisting with caswellsilverite (Cw), ferromagnesian alabandite (Ab) and daubreelite (Db). (AmMin, v70:638).
Location: Norton County (Kansas-Nebraska) enstatite achondrite meteorite. Scale: Scale bar is 0.08 mm.
© American Mineralogist

Catamarcaite: Cu6GeWS8  
Putzite: (Cu4.7Ag3.3)GeS6

Comments: Polished section of putzite (pu) grain in close association with unnamed Cu8Fe2ZnGe2S12 (un1) and catamarcaite (ca), as inclusions in chalcocite-sphalerite (cc/sp) (CanMin 42:1761).
Location: Old dumps near the Rosario vein, Capillitas mining district, Department of Andalgalá, Catamarca Province, Argentina.. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist