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Corrensite: (Ca,Na,K)(Mg,Fe,Al)9(Si,Al)8O20(OH)10·n(H2O)
Comments: Platy, authigenic chloritic mixed-layer clays (Corrensite?), lining the pore spaces of a sandstone. SEM image from a core sample. Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 33 µ-m. © OMNI Laboratories, Inc
Comments: White earthy crust of corrensite on matrix. Location: Bolet, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Corundum: Al2O3
Comments: corundum (variety Sapphire). Location: Miass, Urals, Russia. Scale: 10 x 8 cm. © Fabre Minerals
Comments: Bright red ruby corundum crystals in white marble matrix. Location: Jagdalak (Jagdalek; Jagdalik) Ruby Mine, Sorobi District, Konar (Kunar; Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 4x3.5x3 cm. © John Betts - Fine Minerals
Corundum: Al2O3 Zincohogbomite-2N2S: (Zn,Fe++)(2-2x)(Ti)xAl4O8
Comments: Thin-Section (Plane Polarized Light) of a brown, twinned zincohögbomite-2N2S crystal with blue corundum. Location: Mikro-Lakka Emery deposit, Kerketeas Mt, Sámos Island, Aegean Islands Department, Greece. Scale: Picture size 1.1 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Corvusite: (Na,Ca,K)V8O20·4(H2O)
Comments: Silky to dull brown corvusite in/on sandstone. Location: Fire Fly Mine, near Delta, Emery County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Corvusite: (Na,Ca,K)V8O20·4(H2O) Vanoxite: V++++4V+++++2O13·8(H2O) (?)
Comments: Blue-black, somewhat silky vanoxite, with brown corvusite on sandstone. Location: Club Mine, Uravan, Montrose County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Cosalite: Pb2Bi2S5
Comments: Metallic-lustered cosalite on matrix. Location: Limestone Quarry, Hammerunterwiesenthal, Oberwiesenthal, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 8 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Coskrenite-(Ce): (Ce,Nd,La)2(SO4)2(C2O4)·8(H2O)
Comments: SEM image of coskrenite-(Ce) crystals in cavities in epsomite. (CanMin, v37:1453). Location: AIum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Scale: See Image. © Canadian Mineralogist
Costibite: CoSbS
Comments: B&W polished section image of ullmannite-willyamite zoned crystal (Ul-Wi) surrounded by lollingite (Lol) containing lamellae of costibite (Co) in a siderite (Sid) matrix. AmMin v55:10. Location: Consols Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Cotunnite: PbCl2 Burnsite: KCdCu7O2(SeO3)2Cl9
Comments: Images of burnsite grains (dark) in intimate intergrowth with cotunnite (light). Images obtained by scanning electron microscopy. Location: North Breach of the great fissure Tolbachik volcano eruption (1975-1976), Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Scale bar: 20 µ-m. © Canadian Mineralogist
Cotunnite: PbCl2
Comments: White to tan translucent crystalline cotunnite on volcanic slag. Location: Vesuvius, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species