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Coesite: SiO2
Comments: Fine-grained, massive coesite. Location: Meteor Crater, Canyon Diablo, Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Comments: Coesite inclusion in garnet of eclogite sample (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:567). Location: Ultra high-pressure metamorphic area of the Saidenbach reservoir, Erzgebirge, Germany, where micro-diamond-bearing gneiss occurs. Scale: Scale Bar 50 µm. © Eur. J. Mineral
Coffinite: U(SiO4)1-x(OH)4x
Comments: Black, interstitial coffinite cementing a sub-angular quartzose sandstone. Schumacher Collection. Location: Temple Mountain, San Rafael District (San Rafael Swell), Emery Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Paul M. Schumacher
Cohenite: (Fe,Ni,Co)3C Troilite: FeS Kamacite: alpha-(Fe,Ni) Taenite: gamma-(Fe,Ni)
Comments: Brown masses of troilite, with white cohenite, in kamacite/taenite matrix, in meteorite (polished section). Location: Meteor Crater, Canyon Diablo, Coconino County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Cohenite: (Fe,Ni,Co)3C
Comments: Bluish gray, metallic iridescent crystals of cohenite on matrix. Location: Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: 2.3 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Coiraite: (Pb,Sn)12.5As3Sn5FeS28
Comments: Dark grayish, micro-crystalline aggregates of coiraite with sphalerite. Location: Mina Pirquitas, Dep. Rinconada, Province Jujuy, Argentina. Scale: Not Given. © Diederik Visser
Colemanite: Ca2B6O11·5(H2O)
Comments: Large crystals of brown colemanite with second generation of absolutely clear and gemmy (colorless) colemanite. Intensely fluorescent in long and short UV.. Location: Mustafakemalpascha Mine, West-Anatolia Turkey. Scale: Crystal size: 1.3 x 1 cm. © Fabre Minerals
Comments: Coarsely crystalline colemanite, in part, covered with minute acicular crystals of strontianite. Location: Boraxo #3 pit, Death Valley, California, USA. Scale: 30 cm. © Dave Barthelmy
Collinsite: Ca2(Mg,Fe++)(PO4)2·2(H2O)
Comments: Half nodule of nearly pure collinsite. The center of the specimen is a small piece of volcanic rock surrounded by collinsite. Location: Francois Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Scale: 7 x 5.5 cm. © John Veevaert
Coloradoite: HgTe
Comments: Massive, metallic coloradoite. Location: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia. Scale: 5x2.5x1.5 cm. © John Betts - Fine Minerals
Colquiriite: CaLiAlF6
Comments: Colorless tabular crystals of colquiriite on matrix. Location: Serra Branca pegmatite, Pedra Lavrada, Picuí, Paraíba, Northeast Region, Brazil. Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag