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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
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
Coulsonite: Fe++V+++2O4
Comments: Evenly disseminated fine-grained coulsonite in subhedral crystals (light gray) scattered through silicate gangue (dark gray), composed of chlorite, muscovite and scapolite. (AmMin, v47:1284). Location: Metamorphosed igneous rocks of the Buena Vista Hills located some twenty miles southeast of the town of Lovelock, Nevada, USA. Scale: Picture Size 135 x. © American Mineralogist
Cousinite: MgU2Mo2O13·6(H2O) (?)
Comments: minute aggregate of greenish black platy crystals of Cousinite. Location: Shinkolobwe, Katanga, Shaba, Zaire. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Coutinhoite: ThxBa1-2x(H2O)y(UO2)2Si5O13·H2O
Comments: New mineral, IMA 2003-025, from this pegmatite. This is a co-type specimen. Flaky crystals of choutinhoite to less than 0.25mm in gelatin capsule. Location: Lavra do Urucum, Serra do Urucum, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: Crystal size 0.25mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Comments: Irregular aggregate of yellow coutinhoite. (AmMin, v 89, p 721). Location: Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Image. © American Mineralogist
Covellite: CuS
Comments: Covellite crystal group. Location: Butte, Montana, USA. Scale: 8 x 4 cm. © Fabre Minerals
Covellite: CuS Nukundamite: (Cu,Fe)4S4
Comments: Metallic brownish rim of nukundamite with dark purplish-blue covellite on fine-grained pyrite. Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 7 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Cowlesite: CaAl2Si3O10·5-6(H2O)
Comments: Milky bluish translucent botryoidal cowlesite in vug. Location: Goble, Columbia County, Oregon, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Coyoteite: NaFe3S5·2(H2O)
Comments: Black and white image of a polished section showing coyoteite crystals showing chevron pattern developed by opposing cleavage sets. Continuous parallel lines are polishing scratches. (AmMin 68:252). Location: Coyote Peak mafic alkalic diatreme near Orick, Humboldt County, California. USA. Scale: Image size 0.26 mm. © American Mineralogist
Crandallite: CaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5·(H2O) Phosphofibrite: KCuFe+++15(PO4)12(OH)12·12(H2O)
Comments: Olive-green colored fibrous phosphofibrite aggregates with white crandallite. Location: Silver Coin Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species