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Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Albite: NaAlSi3O8

Comments: Colorless, lustrous blocky albite crystals to 3 cm in size with a thick dusting of micaceous green micro chlorite.
Location: Acushnet Quarry, Bristol Co., Massachussetts, USA. Scale: 17 x 15 x 7.5 cm matrix.
© Dan Weinrich

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Albite: NaAlSi3O8

Comments: Crystal group of bladed albite (variety cleavelandite) crystals.
Location: Taquaral, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: 7.4 x 5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Labradorite: (Ca,Na)(Si,Al)4O8

Comments: Dual view of a cleavage fragment of labradorite showing the multi-colored labradorescence (schiller effect) and the same area viewed without the color. The color is due to optical interference on Bøggild exsolution lamellae.
Location: Ihosy, Betroka district, Toliara Province, Madagascar. Scale: Picture size 3x3 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Oligoclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8

Comments: Rectangular cleavage fragment of salmon-orange oligoclase (sunstone) feldspar.
Location: Norway. Scale: 47x30x7 mm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Anorthite: CaAl2Si2O8

Comments: Opaque white crystal of anorthite with dark brown solidified lava coating.
Location: Miyake-jima, Shizuoka, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Andesine: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8

Comments: Translucent andesine crystal twin.
Location: Maeyama Ueda shi, Nagano, Japan. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Bytownite: (Ca,Na)(Si,Al)4O8

Comments: Translucent crystalline bytownite.
Location: Crystal Bay, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8  
Oligoclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8

Comments: Clear glassy crystalline oligoclase with milky quartz and muscovite.
Location: Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Plagioclase: (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8

Comments: Plagioclase, variety kenyite, crystals in volcanic rock.
Location: Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), Central Province, Kenya. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Plagionite: Pb5Sb8S17

Comments: Silvery metallic crystalline plagionite with brassy chalcopyrite.
Location: Rocker Creek, Jefferson County, Montana, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Plagionite: Pb5Sb8S17

Comments: Lead-gray crystals (to 2mm) of plagionite with a bluish tarnish on vuggy white calcite matrix.
Location: Wolfsberg, Harz, Germany. Scale: 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.5cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Plancheite: Cu8Si8O22(OH)4·(H2O)

Comments: Open vug lined with individual plancheite crystals to 3mm.
Location: Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scale: 2.5 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Planerite: Al6(PO4)2(PO3OH)2(OH)8·4(H2O)

Comments: Light green, oolitic coatings of planerite on matrix.
Location: Mauldin Mountain Quarry, Mt. Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Platarsite: (Pt,Rh,Ru)AsS

Comments: Coexisting platarsite (2) and sperrylite (1) included in a Pt-Fe alloy matrix. (CanMin, v15:385).
Location: Onverwacht mine, Transvaal, South Africa. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Platinum: Pt  
Cherepanovite: RhAs  
Cooperite: (Pt,Pd,Ni)S

Comments: Creamy-grayish fractured grains of cherepanovite with gray granular cooperite and white massive grains of iridian ruthenian platinum. Polished section in reflected light.
Location: Placer Deposit, Northern Pekul'nei River, Pekul'nei Range, Chukotka (Tchukotka) Okrug, Chukot Peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.12 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Platinum: Pt

Comments: Crystallized platinum nugget.
Location: Russia. Scale: 0.5 x 0.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Platinum: Pt

Comments: Stream-worn, platinum nugget with chromite? Inclusions.
Location: Rio Tinto, San Juan River Basin, Papayan, Cauca, Columbia. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Plattnerite: PbO2

Comments: Rhombic calcite crystals with overgrowth of sparkling black plattnerite crystals.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Mun. de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. Scale: 5x3x2 cm..
© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Platynite: (Bi,Pb)3(Se,S)4  
Paraguanajuatite: Bi2(Se,S)3

Comments: Bright metallic gray platy crystalline platynite, with dull black paraguanajuatite.
Location: Falun, Kopparberg, Sweden. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Plimerite: ZnFe+++4(PO4)3(OH)5

Comments: Light olive green to dark green hemispheres and crusts of plimerite. From Author's study material.
Location: Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co, New South Wales, Australia. Scale: Size: Miniature.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix