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Pyrolusite: MnO2
Comments: Steel-gray metallic prismatic pyrolusite crystals. Location: Hori Blatna, Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Pyromorphite: Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Comments: Apple green pyromorphite. Location: San Andres Mine, Villaviciosa, Cordoba, Spain. Scale: 6.5 x 5 cm. © Fabre Minerals
Pyrope: Mg3Al2(SiO4)3
Comments: Transparent, dark-red pyrope garnet. Location: Governador Valadares, Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil. Scale: 6x6x6 mm. © John Betts - Fine Minerals
Pyrophanite: MnTiO3
Comments: Red-brown platy pyrophanite crystals with deep red internal hints, associated with barite. Location: Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. Scale: See Image. © Rruff Database
Pyrophyllite: Al2Si4O10(OH)2 Rutile: TiO2
Comments: Rutile on fine-grained pyrophyllite. Location: Graves Mt. Georgia, USA. Scale: 4.5 x 5 cm. © Fabre Minerals
Pyrosmalite-(Fe): (Fe++,Mn)8Si6O15(OH,Cl)10
Comments: Crystal of ferropyrosmalite on clinochlore schist. Location: Normark, Wermland, Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm. © John Veevaert
Pyrosmalite-(Mn): (Mn,Fe++)8Si6O15(OH,Cl)10
Comments: Greenish brown, blocky crystals of manganpyrosmalite in matrix. Individual crystals are up to 7 mm long. Location: Nordmark, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: Picture size 5 cm. © John Veevaert
Comments: Hexagonal, light brown crystals of manganpyrosmalite. Location: Nordmark, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden. Scale: Crystal size 1.5 mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Pyrostilpnite: Ag3SbS3
Comments: Reddish brown, crystalline aggregate of pyrostilpnite on matrix. Location: St. Audreasberg, Hartz, Lower Saxony, Germany. Scale: Not Given. © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Comments: Deep bright-red, acicular crystals of pyrostilpnite to 1mm in vuggy sulfide matrix. Location: Cerro Rico, Potosi City, Potosi Dept., Bolivia. Scale: Picture size 5 mm. © Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix
Pyroxferroite: (Fe++,Mn)7[Si7O21]
Comments: Brown crystalline pyroxferroite cleavage. Location: Ohnari Mine, Mineyama-cho, Naka-Gun, Kyoto, Japan. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Pyroxmangite: (Mn,Fe++)SiO3
Comments: Pinkish red nearly opaque crystalline pyroxmangite. Location: Shidara, Kitashidara-Gun, Aichi, Japan. Scale: See Photo. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Pyrrhotite: Fe(1-x)S (x=0-0.17)
Comments: Lustrous sharp crystals of pyrrhotite to 3.5 cm in size with minor sphalerite and chalcopyrite. Location: Nikolaevskiy mine, Dal'negors, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Scale: 4 x 5 x 5.5 cm. © Dan Weinrich
Qandilite: (Mg,Fe++)2(Ti,Fe+++,Al)O4
Comments: Small black grains of qandilite in a forsterite skarn rock matrix. Location: Dupezeh Mt., Hero, Qala-Diz (Qala-Dizeh; Qala-Diza), Iraq. Scale: Picture Size 0.5 cm. © Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species
Comments: B&W photograph in plane-polarized light showing rounded fractured serpentinized olivine surrounded by the interstitial calcite (C), qandilite (Q), perovskite (P), and altered Mg,Al-spinel (Sp). (MinMag, v49:739). Location: Forsterite-rich rock in contact with a kaersutite-rich banded diorite from the Qala-Dizeh region, NE Iraq. Scale: See Image. © Mineralogical Magazine
Qaqarssukite-(Ce): Ba(Ce,REE)(CO3)2F
Comments: SEM image showing a blocky, stepped group of qaqarssukite-(Ce) crystals with several broken needles of strontianite. (CanMin, v44:1137). Location: Qaqarssuk complex, Greenland. Scale: See Image. © Canadian Mineralogist
Quadratite: Ag(Cd,Pb)AsS3
Comments: Tabular crystals of quadratite with small silvery gray, rounded crystals of galena. Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 0.8 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Comments: Aggregate of 3 black tabular crystals of quadratite (reflecting light) on jordanite/lengenbachite and white dolomite. Location: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland. Scale: Crystal size 0.2 mm. © Walter Gabriel
Quadridavyne: (Na,K)6Ca2Al6Si6O24Cl4
Comments: Colorless hexagonal crystals of quadridavyne. Location: Ettringer Bellerberg, Ettringen, near Mayen, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Picture size 3 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Quartz: SiO2 Calcite: CaCO3
Comments: Purple-colored druse of amethystine quartz and white calcite. Location: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Scale: Sample size 20 cm. © Dave Barthelmy