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Phosphoferrite: (Fe++,Mn)3(PO4)2·3(H2O)

Comments: Translucent, brown crystal of phosphoferrite on matrix.
Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Phosphofibrite: KCuFe+++15(PO4)12(OH)12·12(H2O)  
Crandallite: CaAl3(PO4)2(OH)5·(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

Phosphohedyphane: Ca2Pb3(PO4)3Cl

Comments: Clear, prismatic phosphohedyphane crystal on matrix.
Location: Argentena mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada, USA. Scale: Crystal size 0.5mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Phosphoinnelite: Ba4Na3Ti3Si4O14(PO4,SO4)2(O,F)3

Comments: Yellowish inclusions of phosphoinnelite in matrix.
Location: Kovdor Phlogopite Quarry, Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: Specimen Size 15x10x8 mm.
© Sergey Vasiliev / Systematic Mineralogy

Phosphophyllite: Zn2(Fe++,Mn)(PO4)2·4(H2O)

Comments: Transparent, blue crystal of phosphophyllite.
Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Phosphosiderite: Fe+++PO4·2(H2O)  
Barbosalite: Fe++Fe+++2(PO4)2(OH)2

Comments: Transparent, brown crystal of phosphosiderite on black barbosalite.
Location: Bull Moose mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Phosphosiderite: Fe+++PO4·2(H2O)  
Tinsleyite: KAl2(PO4)2(OH)·2(H2O)  
Rockbridgeite: (Fe++,Mn)Fe+++4(PO4)3(OH)5

Comments: Violet botryoidal tinsleyite on bluish-purple botryoidal phosphosiderite on dark, massive rockbridgeite.
Location: Bendada, Guarda, Portugal. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phosphovanadylite: (Ba,Ca,K,Na)x[(V,Al)4P2(O,OH)16]·12(H2O) x~0.66

Comments: Scanning electron microscope micrographs showing the cubic habit of phosphovanadylite. (AmMin 83:890).
Location: Phosphoria Formation at Monsanto’s Enoch Valley Mine, Soda Springs, Idaho. Scale: Crystal size 40 µm.
© American Mineralogist

Phosphowalpurgite: (UO2)Bi4(PO4)O4·2(H2O)

Comments: Scanning electron photomicrograph of tabular crystals (up to 330 microm) of phosphowalpurgite, (CanMin, 42:966)..
Location: Old mine dumps of an abandoned small ore deposit near Smrkovec, located 10 km NNE of Mariánské Lázn?, Slavkovský Les Mountains, western Bohemia, Czech Republic. Scale: Picture Size 515 µ-m.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Phosphuranylite: KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O)

Comments: Bright yellow orange crystals of phosphuranylite on matrix.
Location: Wagontown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Phosphuranylite: KCa(H3O)3(UO2)7(PO4)4O4·8(H2O)  
Uranocircite: Ba(UO2)2(PO4)2·12(H2O)

Comments: Yellow, waxy phosphuranylite with green uranocircite in matrix.
Location: Bergen, Falkenstein, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Phuralumite: Al2(UO2)3(PO4)2(OH)6·10(H2O)

Comments: Yellow crystals of phuralumite scattered on white matrix.
Location: Kobokobo Pegmatite, Lusungu River District, Kivu, Congo (Zaïre). Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Phurcalite: Ca2(UO2)3O2(PO4)2·7(H2O)

Comments: Yellow phurcalite crystals on white aragonite.
Location: Posey Mine, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture site 0.5 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Phurcalite: Ca2(UO2)3O2(PO4)2·7(H2O)

Comments: Coatings of minute acicular phurcalite crystals on sandstone.
Location: Posey Mine, Red Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phurcalite: Ca2(UO2)3O2(PO4)2·7(H2O)

Comments: Bright canary yellow acicular phurcalite crystals to about 0.25mm. Seems to have overgrown perhaps torbernite and individual groups are to 1mm.
Location: El Azul mine, Los Azules district, Copiapo Province, Atacama, Chile. Scale: Picture Size 5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Pianlinite:  
Kaolinite: Al2Si2O5(OH)4

Comments: Off-white colored minute pianlinite (kaolinite) fragment.
Location: Pianling, China. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pickeringite: MgAl2(SO4)4·22(H2O)  
Magnesioaubertite: (Mg,Cu)Al(SO4)2Cl·14(H2O)

Comments: Aqua crystalline magnesioaubertite with white pickeringite.
Location: Grotto di Faraglione, Vulcano, Sicily, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pickeringite: MgAl2(SO4)4·22(H2O)

Comments: Radiating fibrous pickeringite.
Location: Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Picotpaulite: TlFe2S3

Comments: SEM image of a polished secton of picotpaulite inclusions in realgar, most likely associated with lorandite as well.
Location: Allchar (Alsar), Roszdan, Republic of Macedonia. Scale: Picture Size 300 µm.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Picromerite: K2Mg(SO4)2·6(H2O)

Comments: Blocky white picromerite crystals on reddish halite.
Location: Heringen, Werra Valley, North Hesse, Hesse, Germany. Scale: Specimen Size 5.5 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm.
© Rob Lavinsky