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Copiapite: Fe++Fe+++4(SO4)6(OH)2·20(H2O)
Comments: Brownish yellow tabular crystals of copiapite. Location: Saghand, near Yazd, Yadz Province, Iran. Scale: Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Copiapite: Fe++Fe+++4(SO4)6(OH)2·20(H2O) Rozenite: Fe++SO4·4(H2O) Ferrinatrite: Na3Fe+++(SO4)3·3(H2O)
Comments: White powdery rozenite coating with yellow ferrinatrite on purple copiapite. Location: Le Cetine Mine, Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Copper: Cu
Comments: Native copper forming a branching cluster of crystals with some massive calcite. Location: Houghton County, Michigan, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 cm. © Dan Weinrich
Coquandite: Sb6O8(SO4)·(H2O)
Comments: Silky coquandite with stibnite. Location: Pereta mine, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Coquimbite: Fe+++2(SO4)3·9(H2O) Goldichite: KFe+++(SO4)2·4(H2O) Ferricopiapite: Fe+++2/3Fe+++4(SO4)6(OH)2·20(H2O)
Comments: Prismatic to fibrous crystals of goldichite on white massive coquimbite with yellow ferricopiapite. Location: Dexter No. 7 Mine, Calf Mesa, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Coquimbite: Fe+++2(SO4)3·9(H2O)
Comments: Coquimbite rosettes (small bumps) secondarily nucleated on a cryptocrystalline mass. AmMin, v90, p1734. Location: Vents associated with underground coal fires in the Wuda coal bed of Inner Mongolia. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Comments: Brownish yellow tabular crystals of coquimbite. Location: Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Scale: Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Corderoite: Hg3S2Cl2
Comments: Small dark brown dodecahedral crystal of corderoite. Location: Hohe Buche, Königsberg, Wolfstein, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Corderoite: Hg3S2Cl2 Radtkeite: Hg3S2ClI
Comments: SEM image of prismatic radtkeite crystals and equant corderoite crystals on quartz matrix. AmMin, v76:1715). Location: McDermitt mercury mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Scale: Scale Bar 10 µm. © American Mineralogist
Cordierite: Mg2Al4Si5O18
Comments: Piece of near-gem-quality glassy gray-blue cordierite with some yellowish internal reflections. Location: Mt. Bity District, Madagascar. Scale: Overall: 2 x 1 x 1.5 cm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Comments: Brown rectangular cordierite crystals in matrix. These crystals are not gemmy enough to be called iolite. Location: Richmond Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire, USA. Scale: 24x20x15 mm. © John Betts - Fine Minerals