Paakkonenite   Kermesite

Comments: Much of the matrix is the gray metallic paakkonenite with red crystals of kermesite and minute yellow crystals of valentinite.
Location: Cai' ao mine, Danfong Co., Shaanxi Prov., China. Scale: 3x2x2cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Pabstite

Comments: Pabstite grains in matrix. It is essentially the tin analog of benitoite with tin replacing titanium in the formula 3:1. Pabstite fluoresces under SW UV light as seen in the photo.
Location: Kalkar Quarry, Santa Cruz County, California, USA. Scale: 4.5 x 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pachnolite

Comments: Color-zoned (darker core) prismatic translucent pachnolite crystals, with secondary white prismatic microcrystals.
Location: Ivigtut, Greenland. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paganoite

Comments: Scanning electron microscope photomicrograph of blocky subhedral to euhedral crystals of paganoite and more fine-grained mottled material that is aerugite. (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:169).
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany, mined in the mid-1800?s, nothing was preserved of its previous history until it was located in 1981 by the American mineral dealer David New in the back of a drawer in an old mineral shop in Germany.. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Pahasapaite

Comments: Lilac colored pahasapaite in matrix.
Location: Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 3.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Painite

Comments: Painite #12, is an orange-brown, 0.156 gram, transparent, uniaxial, gemmy crystal with one perfect termination.
Location: Ongaing village, Mogok region, Myanmar. Scale: Not Given.
© S Naung II

Painite

Comments: Four brown, prismatic painite crystals wth red rubys and violet sapphires (corundum) in a matrix composed of painite, pink and white corundum.
Location: Ongaing, near Mogok Stone Tract, Burma. Scale: 3.0 x 2.0 x 3.6 inches.
© Lyn Tynan / T G Fine Minerals

Palenzonaite

Comments: Dark reddish-brown palenzonaite.
Location: Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia, Liguria, Italy. Scale: Picture size 4.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Palermoite

Comments: Less than 1cm, vug with micro crystals of palermoite.
Location: Palermo mine, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: Picture size 0.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Palladium

Comments: Platinum-rich palladium nugget, mounted in epoxy, with one side polished.
Location: Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Palladodymite   Hongshiite   Ruthenium

Comments: Palladodymite (light gray, in two small grains), hongshiite (pale creamy grayish, tarnished brownish) in massive ruthenium. Polished section (from microprobe analysis) in reflected light.
Location: Miass River, Zlatoust, Ilmen Mts, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.09 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Palladseite

Comments: Irregular metallic palladseite grain.
Location: Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Palygorskite

Comments: Compact massive palygorskite.
Location: Senton, Devon, England. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Panunzite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous panunzite coatings.
Location: Pilcante, Trentino, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Papagoite

Comments: Electric blue crystals of papagoite in matrix.
Location: New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Parabutlerite

Comments: Yellow to brownish yellow parabutlerite crystals.
Location: Shagand Yazd, Iran. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Paracelsian

Comments: Translucent paracelsian crystals on matrix.
Location: Benalt Mine, Rhiw, Carnarvonshire, Gwynedd, Wales. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Parachrysotile

Comments: Asbestos fibers of greenish parachrysotile.
Location: Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: 8x10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Paradamite

Comments: Yellow paradamite crystals on a gossanous matrix.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Druango, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Paradocrasite

Comments: Metallic white columnar aggregates of paradocrasite.
Location: Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Parafransoletite   Roscherite

Comments: White, crystalline aggregate sprays of parafransoletite on dark reddish brown roscherite with massive, white, sucrosic whitlockite.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Paragonite   Chloritoid

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

Paragonite

Comments: Silvery micaceous paragonite comprising schist rock, with garnet crystals.
Location: Gassettts, New Hampshire, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paraguanajuatite   Platynite

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

Parahopeite

Comments: Transparent, prismatic parahopeite crystals with keckite.
Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Parakeldyshite

Comments: White pearly crystalline parakeldyshite in rock.
Location: Lagendalen, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paralaurionite

Comments: Transparent, prismatic Paralaurionite crystal.
Location: Laurium, Greece. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Paralstonite

Comments: Translucent bright white steep pyramidal paralstonite microcrystals on fluorite.
Location: Bethel Level, Minerva #1 Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paramelaconite

Comments: black paramelaconite masses with blue chrysocolla.
Location: Algoma Mine, Otonagon County, Michigan, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paramendozavilite

Comments: Bright yellow paramendozavilite coatings on matrix.
Location: Cumobabi, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paranatrolite

Comments: Translucent prismatic paranatrolite crystal aggregate.
Location: Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paraotwayite

Comments: Pale green, fibrous, silky, free standing paraotwayite crystals to about 0.25mm.
Location: Vaca Murta meteorite, Taltal, Atacama, Chile. Scale: Crystal size .25 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Parapierrotite

Comments: Silvery metallic prismatic parapierrotite grains in translucent quartz rock.
Location: Lookout Pass, Tooele County, Utah, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pararammelsbergite

Comments: Columnar crystals of metallic gray pararammelsbergite on massive arsenide ore.
Location: Lawson Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© Reiner Mielke

Pararealgar

Comments: Orange pararealgar on matrix.
Location: H?nichen, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Parascholzite   Ehrleite

Comments: White to clear, slender, 1-2mm, prismatic crystals of ehrleite associated with massive parascholzite. Type specimen courtesy of Museum of Geology, SD School of Mines.
Location: Tip Top mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Crystal size 1-2 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Parascholzite

Comments: Bluish, transparent, prismatic parascholzite crystals on matrix.
Location: Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Parascorodite

Comments: Powdery parascorodite mass.
Location: Kank, near Kutna Hora, Stredocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paraspurrite   Larnite

Comments: Violet-tinted gray crystalline pure paraspurrite mass with larnite veinlets.
Location: Near Darwin, Inyo County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Parasymplesite

Comments: Opaque, prismatic parasymplesite crystals.
Location: Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Paratacamite   Christelite

Comments: Robins-egg blue christelite with dark green paratacamite on matrix.
Location: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile. Scale: 3 cm.
© John Veevaert

Paratacamite

Comments: Deep green crystal paratacamite rosettes on rusty quartz.
Location: Churchill Butte, Lyon County, Nevada, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paratellurite

Comments: Light yellow crystals of paratellurite in quartz.
Location: Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Paravauxite

Comments: Radiating group of pastel blue/green paravauxite crystals to 1cm.
Location: Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia. Scale: 1.8 x 1.5 x 1 cm.
© Isaias Casanova / IC Minerals

Paravauxite

Comments: Light-green, elongated paravauxite crystals.
Location: Siglo XX mine, Llallagua, Bolivia. Scale: Crystal size 1 cm.
© Minernet

Pargasite

Comments: Lime green, prismatic crystals of pargasite in matrix.
Location: Luc Yen, Vietnam. Scale: 12x10 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Pargasite   Edenite

Comments: Blocky, dark green crystals of visually indistinguishable pargasite and edenite.
Location: Kolonne bei, Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka. Scale: 4.5 x 1.7 x 3.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Parisite-(Ce)

Comments: Brown crystals of parisite-(Ce) in matrix.
Location: Narssarssuk, Igaliko, Greenland. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Parisite-(Ce)

Comments: Columnar, hexagonal crystal of orangy brown parisite-(Ce) on matrix.
Location: Somewhere near Boyaca, Colombia. Scale: Scale not given.
© Diego Rodriguez Acosta

Parnauite

Comments: Green tabular crystals of parnauite.
Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Parsettensite

Comments: Yellowish brown microcrystals of parsettensite on a crystalline matrix with pyrite and apatite.
Location: Foote mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA. Scale: Picture size 1 cm.
© John Veevaert

Parsonsite

Comments: Bright yellow parsonsite crystals on matrix.
Location: La Chaux, France. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Partheite

Comments: 3 mm thick white band of partheite in matrix.
Location: Denezhkin, Kamen, Nord Urals, Russia. Scale: 0.9 x 1.6 cm.
© John Veevaert

Partzite

Comments: Light to dark green partzite encrustations with sky-blue chrysocolla and limonite gossan matrix.
Location: Comanche mine, Blind Spring Hill, Benton, Mono Co., California, USA. Scale: 5.5 x 3.5 x 4cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Pascoite

Comments: Deep reddish-orange coatings of pascoite. Individual crystals up to about 0.25 mm.
Location: Slick Rock, Enar Area, San Miguel County, Utah, USA. Scale: 3 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pascoite

Comments: Bright orange sugary crusts of pascoite across sandstone matrix.
Location: Black Stone Incline, Thompson dist., Grand Co., Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 2 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Patronite   Minasragrite

Comments: Blue coatings of minasragrite on patronite.
Location: Minas Ragra, near Cerro de Pasco, Junin, Peru. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Patronite

Comments: Dark brownish black fine grained massive patronite.
Location: Minas Ragra, near Cerro de Pasco, Junin, Peru. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Patronite   Stanleyite

Comments: Blue crystalline stanleyite on dark patronite.
Location: Minas Ragra, Junin, Peru. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Paulingite-K

Comments: Glassy clear micro crystals of paulingite line a vug in the basalt matrix.
Location: Ritter, Grant County, Oregon, USA. Scale: 2.5 x 2 cm.
© John Veevaert

Paulkerrite

Comments: Transparent yellow tabular paulkerrite microcrystal.
Location: Folgosinho, Guarda, Portugal. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pavonite

Comments: Silvery metallic pavonite masses with brassy pyrite.
Location: Alaska Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pearceite

Comments: Crystals of metallic pearceite to 0.75 mm scattered in vug.
Location: Sarbaiskoe, Kazakhstan. Scale: 4x3x3 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Pectolite   Aegirine

Comments: White, cottony pectolite tufts with acicular aegirine.
Location: 3M quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Pectolite   Sugilite

Comments: Sharp terminated purple crystals of sugilite to 5mm on white, acicular pectolite.
Location: Wessels Mine, Kalahari, South Africa. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Peisleyite

Comments: Off-white opaque porcelaneous peisleyite mass.
Location: Tom's Phosphate Quarry, near Kapunda, South Australia, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pekovite

Comments: Backscatter elecron image of (a) an intergrowth of pekovite (Pkv) and pectolite (Pct) and (b), an enlarged area of (a) showing details. (CanMin, v 42, p 110).
Location: Moraine of the Dara-i-Pioz glacier, Alai range, Tien Shan, northern Tajikistan. Scale: See Image.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Pellyite   Gillespite

Comments: Red crystalline gillespite with yellow pellyite rock matrix.
Location: GUN claims, Itsi Mountains, MacMillan Pass Area, Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pellyite

Comments: Brown massive pellyite in barite.
Location: Rush Creek, Fresno County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Penfieldite

Comments: Greenish, acicular penfieldite crystals.
Location: Laurium, Greece. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Penfieldite

Comments: White to clear or light blue, doubly terminated, striated penfieldite crystals from 0.5 to 2mm associated with boleite as micro coatings.
Location: Margarita mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Penikisite   Jagowerite

Comments: Light green crystal of jagowerite intergrown with darker green penikisite in a tetrahedrite (black) and white quartz matrix.
Location: From quartz veins cutting clays 26 km N of Hess River, Yukon Territory, Canada. Scale: Sample size 2x1 cm.
© Dave Barthelmy

Penkvilksite

Comments: Massive white cluster of Penkvilksite.
Location: Lovozero, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: .5 x 2.5 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pennantite

Comments: Dark brown micaceous pennantite.
Location: Gambatesa Mine, Val Graveglia, Genova, Liguria, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Penroseite

Comments: Silvery metallic penroseite masses in matrix.
Location: Unnamed prospect in Pacajake Canyon, near Culquechaca, Potosi, Bolivia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pentagonite

Comments: Blue, crystalline aggregate of pentagonite on zeolite.
Location: Wagholi quarries, Poona, India. Scale: Grain size 1.2 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Pentahydrite

Comments: White, powdery pentahydrite.
Location: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein area, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 4 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Pentahydroborite

Comments: Transparent, tabular crystal of pentahydroborite on massive material.
Location: Fuka Mine, Bicchu Town, Kawakama Co., Okayama Pref., Japan. Scale: Crystal size 0.8 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pentlandite

Comments: Ore sample of a mixture of several sulfide minerals: pentlandite, chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite.
Location: Frood-Stobie Mine, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: 20x15x7 mm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Peretaite

Comments: Clear, tabular, bladed, stellate spray of transparent peretaite crystals.
Location: Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany, Italy. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Perhamite

Comments: Squat, columnar perhamite crystals on matrix.
Location: Emmons quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Periclase

Comments: Green nickel-rich periclase on matrix.
Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 1.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Periclase   Srebrodolskite

Comments: Black grains of srebrodolskite with white periclase.
Location: Ronneburg U deposit, Gera district, Thuringia, Germany. Scale: Picture size 2 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Perite

Comments: Pale yellow scaly crystalline perite on quartz.
Location: Benson, Cochise County, Arizona, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Perlialite

Comments: Opaque white fibrous perlialite coating on syenite rock.
Location: Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmansk District, Russia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Perloffite

Comments: Black, prismatic perloffite crystals on matrix.
Location: Big Chief mine, Keystone, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Perovskite   Clinochlore

Comments: Square, opaque perovskite on green clinochlore. Very brilliant and with large crystals (2 x 1.5 cm.).
Location: Ilmen Mountains. Chelyabinsk, Urals, Russia. Scale: 6 x 4.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Perovskite   Sodalite

Comments: Clear crystals of sodalite with hoppered perovskite on matrix.
Location: Udersdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Perraultite

Comments: Dark red prismatic crystal of perraultite to 1mm in matrix.
Location: Mariupol massif, Azov Sea Region, Ukraine. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Perrierite-(Ce)   Pyrochlore   Zircon   Loparite-(Ce)

Comments: Reddish black perrierite crystal, with orange-brown pyrochlore crystal, yellow-brown zircon, and grayish-black loparite.
Location: Buer, Bjorkedalen, Langesundfjord, Telemark, Norway. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Perrierite-(Ce)

Comments: Black, granular perrierite in white calcite.
Location: Buer, Bj?rkedalen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway. Scale: Picture size 3 mm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Perroudite

Comments: Cluster of needle-like crystals of red perroudite in quartz matrix.
Location: Gap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet, Var, France. Scale: Crystal size 1 mm.
© John Veevaert

Pertsevite

Comments: Backscattered electron (BSE) picture of pertsevite (P, darker grey) partially replacing clinohumite (C, lighter grey). The still lighter grey mineral with cleavage at the top contacting only pertsevite is calcite. (Eur. J. Mineral, 15:1008).
Location: Contact-metasomatic kotoite marble from the region east of Verkhoyansk, Sakha-Yakutia, northeastern Siberia.. Scale: See Image.
© Eur. J. Mineral

Petalite

Comments: Translucent, gemmy , equant petalite crystal with an etched surface texture resulting in irregular faces.
Location: Paprok, Konar (Kunar; Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 5x3.5x3 cm.
© John Betts - Fine Minerals

Petarasite

Comments: Mottled tan prismatic petarasite crystal in syenite rock.
Location: De Mix Quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Petersite-(Y)

Comments: Fine, light green, acicular crystals of petersite-(Y) to less than 0.2mm occupying an area of about 1mm on dark green malachite.
Location: Laurel Hill, Hudson Co., New Jersey, USA. Scale: Picture size .5 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Petewilliamsite

Comments: SEM image of a portion of a petewilliamsite aggregate. Note the rounded nature of the crystal faces. (Min. Mag. 68:235).
Location: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany. Scale: See Image.
© Mineralogical Magazine

Petterdite

Comments: Pinkish-violet crystalline aggregate of petterdite on matrix.
Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) open cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Petterdite

Comments: Petterdite (Pe) forming a thin pink layer in grey-yellow anglesite (At) and cerussite, replacing galena (Gn), overgrown by red-yellow crocoite (Cr) and brown goethite (Gt). (CanMin, 38:1469).
Location: Red Lead mine, on the Zeehan?Dundas mining field in northwestern Tasmania, Australia.. Scale: Field of view: 15  9 mm.
© Canadian Mineralogist

Petzite   Gold

Comments: Dark, stubby petzite crystals with native gold on quartz.
Location: Rosia Montana (Verespatak), Transylvania, Romania. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Pezzottaite

Comments: Hot-pink, hexagonal, floater crystal of pezzottaite.
Location: Ambatovita, Mandrosonoro, Antsirabe, Madagascar. Scale: Crystal size 1.6x1.2x0.6 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Pharmacolite

Comments: Pink, fuzzy ball of pharmacolite crystals on matrix.
Location: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Pharmacolite   Haidingerite

Comments: Translucent colorless crystalline spherical aggregate of haidingerite with white pharmacolite.
Location: Jachymov, Zapadocesky, Czech Republic. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Pharmacosiderite   Arthurite

Comments: Altered rhyolite vug lined with brilliant apple green arthurite and cubic green crystals of pharmacosiderite.
Location: Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada. USA. Scale: 2.7 x 1.7 cm.
© John Veevaert

Pharmacosiderite

Comments: Translucent yellow-brown cubic Pharmacosiderite crystals.
Location: Wheal Gorland, Saint Day, Cornwall, England. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phaunouxite

Comments: Aggregate of transparent colorless acicular phaunouxite microcrystals.
Location: Grube Gabe Gottes, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, Haute-Rhin, France. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phenakite

Comments: Prismatic, terminated crystal of phenakite on matrix.
Location: Mt Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Philipsbornite

Comments: Greenish-yellow philipsbornite botryoidal crust.
Location: Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Philipsburgite

Comments: Green botryoidal micro crystals of philipsburgite.
Location: Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 mm.
© John Veevaert

Phillipsite   Tacharanite

Comments: Spherical tacharanite aggregates on phillipsite crystals.
Location: Espalion, Aveyron, France. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phillipsite-K

Comments: Clear crystalline ball of phillipsite-K crystals.
Location: Bova, Calabria, Italy. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Phillipsite-Na

Comments: Phillipsite, variety wellsite, crystals on matrix.
Location: Near Ronca, Verona, Veneto, Italy. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phlogopite

Comments: Exceptionally well-crystallized wine-colored pseudo-hexagonal crystal of phlogopite on white calcite.
Location: Kalu Khan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Scale: 6 x 5.5 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

Phlogopite   Serendibite

Comments: Blue serendibite, with golden colored phlogopite, in white marble.
Location: Near Johnsberg, Warren County, New York, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phlogopite   Lazurite

Comments: Gemmy brownish phlogopite crystals on blue lazurite (lapis) matrix with minor pyrite.
Location: Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. Scale: 10 x 11.5 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Phoenicochroite

Comments: Deep red phoenicochroite with crocoite in matrix.
Location: Callenberg North (no. 1) open cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 6.5 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Phoenicochroite   Hemihedrite

Comments: Yellow hemihedrite crystals to 1 mm within pockets of dark red phoenicochroite crystalline aggregates on matrix.
Location: Pack Rat claim, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© Tom Loomis / Dakota Matrix

Phosgenite

Comments: Clear pseudo-cubic crystals of phosgenite on matrix.
Location: Laurium, Greece. Scale: Not Given.
© Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals

Phosgenite

Comments: Terminated, very large crystal of partly transparent, deep brown phosgenite.
Location: Touissit, Morocco. Scale: 7.1x5.5x2.4 cm.
© Richard Dale / Dale Minerals

Phosphammite

Comments: Tan opaque granular phosphammite.
Location: Guanape Islands, La Libertad, Peru. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Phosphoferrite

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   Crandallite

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   IMA2005-026

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

Phosphophyllite

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