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Chenite: Pb4Cu(SO4)2(OH)6

Comments: Sky blue crystalline coating of chenite on matrix.
Location: Silberhutte, Altenau, Harz Mountains, Germany. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Cheralite-(Ce): (Ce,Ca,Th)(P,Si)O4

Comments: Brown to tan, massive cheralite-(Ce) showing cleavage traces.
Location: Uranium King Mine, Trent Creek, Encampment Copper District, Sierra Madre Mts., Carbon Co., Wyoming, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.4 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Cherepanovite: RhAs  
Cooperite: (Pt,Pd,Ni)S  
Platinum: Pt

Comments: Creamy-grayish fractured grains of cherepanovite with gray granular cooperite and white massive grains of iridian ruthenian platinum. Polished section in reflected light.
Location: Placer Deposit, Northern Pekul'nei River, Pekul'nei Range, Chukotka (Tchukotka) Okrug, Chukot Peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.12 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Chernikovite: (H3O)2(UO2)2(PO4)2·6(H2O)

Comments: Greenish-yellow crystals of chernikovite intimately intergrown with meta-autunite.
Location: Rockelmann Quarry, Schwarzenberg, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture Size 3.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Chernovite-(Y): YAsO4

Comments: Dark brown irregular masses and veinlets of chernovite-(Y) in pale creamy tan-colored matrix.
Location: Montaldo Mine, Piedmont, Italy. Scale: 2 1/4" x 2".
© Chris Wright / Wrights Rock Shop

Chernykhite: (Ba,Na)V+++,Al)2(Si,Al)4O10(OH)2

Comments: Dark green flake of chernykhite.
Location: Balasauskandyk, Juzno-Kazahstan, Kazakhstan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chervetite: Pb2V2O7  
Francevillite: (Ba,Pb)(UO2)2V2O8·5(H2O)

Comments: Bottle brown tabular crystals of chervetite on yellow francevilleite.
Location: Mounana, Haut-Ogoue, Gabon. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Chesterite: (Mg,Fe++)17Si20O54(OH)6  
Magnetite: Fe++Fe+++2O4

Comments: Green platy chesterite in black, metallic magnetite.
Location: Near Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chestermanite: Mg2(Fe+++,Mg,Al,Sb+++++)BO3O2  
Ludwigite: Mg2Fe+++BO5

Comments: Black capillary crystals of ludwigite with green inclusions of chestermanite in impure marble.
Location: Near Potter Pass, Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chevkinite-(Ce): (Ce,La,Ca,Th)4(Fe++,Mg)2(Ti,Fe+++)3Si4O22

Comments: Dark brown crystal of chevkinite-(Ce).
Location: Miass, Central Ural Mountains, Russia. Scale: 3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Chiavennite: CaMnBe2Si5O13(OH)2·2(H2O)

Comments: Prismatic micro crystals of chiavennite less than 1mm.
Location: Ute, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Childrenite: Fe++Al(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O)

Comments: Single, terminated crystal of childrenite.
Location: Linopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 2.6 cm.
© John Veevaert

Childrenite: Fe++Al(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O)

Comments: Light-brown, acicular, divergent sprays of childrenite.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon, Canada. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Childrenite: Fe++Al(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O)

Comments: Columnar, brown, prismatic, crystalline aggregate of childrenite with dark blue lazulite.
Location: Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: See Image.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chiolite: Na5Al3F14

Comments: White translucent crystalline massive chiolite.
Location: Ivigtut, Arksukjiord, Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chistyakovaite: Al(UO2)2(AsO4)2(F,OH)·6.5H2O

Comments: Platy fragment of a pale yellow crystal of chistyakovaite sealed in plastic bag, co-type material.
Location: Bota-Burum U deposit, Kazakhstan. Scale: See Image.
© Rruff Database

Chivruaiite: Ca4(Ti,Nb)5[(Si6O17)2[(OH,O)5]·13-14H2O

Comments: SEM image of radiating aggregate of chivruaiite from a microcline vein in eudialyte-bearing lujavrite. (AmMin, v91, p923).
Location: Chivruai River valley, the Lovozero massif, Khibiny massif, Kola peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image.
© American Mineralogist

Chkalovite: Na2BeSi2O6

Comments: Massive, white chkalovite associated with dark aegerine.
Location: Ilimaussaq, Tasseq, Greenland. Scale: 4.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Chladniite: Na2Ca(Mg,Fe++)7(PO4)6

Comments: B&W reflected light image of chladniite (Ch). Silicates are olivine (Ol), pyroxene (Px), and plagioclase (Pl). Chlorapatite (Ca). Schreibersite (Sc) and Fe,Ni metal (M) encloses the entire assemblage.
Location: Carlton (IIICD) iron meteorite. (AmMin, v79:375). Scale: Scale Bar 200 µm.
© American Mineralogist

Chlorargyrite: AgCl

Comments: Butterscotch colored cubic crystals of chlorargyrite on malachite.
Location: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals