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Pitiglianoite: Na6K2Si6Al6O24(SO4)·2(H2O)
Comments: Colorless, prismatic crystals of pitiglianoite. Location: Monte Cavallucio, Sacrofano, Campagnano, Lazio, Italy. Scale: Picture size 2.5 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Pitticite: Hydrous ferric arsenate sulfate (Fe, AsO4, SO4, H2O)
Comments: Dark brown to orange-brown massive Pitticite. Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 6 mm. © Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag
Piypite: K2Cu2(SO4)2O
Comments: Green, acicular piypite crystals on matrix. Location: Main Fracture Eruption (1975-1976) Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. Scale: Picture Size 1 cm. © Diederik Visser
Pizgrischite: (Cu,Fe)Cu14PbBi17S35
Comments: Pizgrischite crystals spray partially altered into malachite (green) and bismutite (yellow) in a fine-grained quartz matrix. (CanMin, v45:1229). Location: Piz Grisch Mountain, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland. Scale: Picture size 4 cm. © Canadian Mineralogist
Comments: SEM images of twinned pizgrischite crystals extracted from quartz matrix by treatment with dilute hydrofluoric acid. (CanMin, v45:1229). Location: Piz Grisch Mountain, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland. Scale: See Image. © S. Ansermet/Canadian Mineralogist
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
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
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
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