Mineral Specimen Images (C)

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

Chlorargyrite: AgCl

Comments: Dark (by exposure to light) octahedral crystals of chlorargyrite with brownish goethite in a vug.
Location: Broken Hill, NWS, Australia. Scale: Crystal size 3 mm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Chlorartinite: Mg2(CO3)Cl(OH)·3(H2O)

Comments: Opaque white crystalline chlorartinite on volcanic glass.
Location: Vulcan Tolbachik, Kamchatka District, Russian Far East, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chlorbartonite: K6Fe24S26(Cl,S)

Comments: Black grains of chlorbartonite in sodalite-natrolite aggregates.
Location: Mount Koashva, Khibina massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Chloritoid: (Fe++,Mg,Mn)2Al4Si2O10(OH)4  
Paragonite: NaAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2

Comments: Grayish crystalline inclusion of chloritoid in white, massive paragonite.
Location: Drandorf Fundgrube Mine, Bockau, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Chloro-potassichastingsite: KCa2(Fe++3MgFe+++)(Si6Al2)?8O22Cl2

Comments: Dark greenish black aggregate of chloro-potassichastingsite cyrstals.
Location: Dashkesan Deposit, Minor Caucasus, Azerbaijan. Scale: Grid Size 1 mm.
© Sergey Vasiliev / Systematic Mineralogy

Chloromenite: Cu9O2(SeO3)4Cl6  
Melanothallite: Cu2OCl2

Comments: Olive green crystalline chloromenite on blue-green melanothallite.
Location: North Break, Second Cone of main fracture eruption, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chlorophoenicite: (Mn,Mg)3Zn2(AsO4)(OH,O)6

Comments: Clear tabular crystals of chlorophoenicite.
Location: Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Scale: Size Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Chlorothionite: K2Cu(SO4)Cl2

Comments: Pale blue granular crystalline chlorothionite.
Location: Vesuvius, Napoli, Campania, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chloroxiphite: Pb3CuCl2(OH)2O2  
Mendipite: Pb3Cl2O2  
Crednerite: CuMnO2

Comments: Green, opaque granular chloroxiphite with mendipite and black crednerite.
Location: Higher Pitts Farm, Priddy, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chloroxiphite: Pb3CuCl2(OH)2O2  
Mendipite: Pb3Cl2O2  
Crednerite: CuMnO2

Comments: Radiating compact with clear to white crystalline mendipite with black crednerite and green chloroxiphite.
Location: Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Choloalite: CuPb(Te++++O3)2  
Hessite: Ag2Te

Comments: Sparse green crusts of choloalite with metallic hessite.
Location: McAlpine Mine, Tuolumne County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Chondrodite: (Mg,Fe++)5(SiO4)2(F,OH)2

Comments: Lustrous and semi-transparent crystal of reddish brown chondrodite 1 cm in size with magnetite and muscovite.
Location: Palabora mine, Loolekop, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Scale: 4 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals