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Paakkonenite: Sb2AsS2 Vaughanite: TlHgSb4S7 Stibarsen: SbAs
Comments: B&W image of vaughanite (Va) aggregate surrounding a fibrous bundle of paakkonenite (Pfi) and associated with stibarsen (Star) and realgar (Re). Oil immersion. (CanMin, v53:369). Location: Rare primary constituent of the Golden Giant orebody of the Hemlo gold deposit, Hemlo, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See Image. © Canadian Mineralogist
Paakkonenite: Sb2AsS2 Kermesite: Sb2S2O
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
Paarite: Cu1.7Pb1.7Bi6.3S12 Krupkaite: PbCuBi3S6
Comments: A mosaic of large grains of a low-Cu bismuthinite derivative, decomposed into an intergrowth of paarite (bd42) and krupkaite (bd49). Location: In quartz veins of the Felbertal scheelite deposit, Salzburg Province, Austria. (CanMin v43:909). Scale: See Image. © Canadian Mineralogist
Pabstite: Ba(Sn,Ti)Si3O9
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: NaCaAlF6·(H2O)
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: (Ni,Co)BiAsO5
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: Li8(Ca,Li,K,Na)11Be24(PO4)24·38(H2O)
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: CaZrB[Al9O18]
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
Pakhomovskyite: Co3(PO4)2·8(H2O)
Comments: Pink crystals of pakhomovskyite on the matrix. (CanMin, v44:117). Location: Dolomite carbonatite cutting phoscorites in the Iron-Ore Complex, Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image. © Canadian Mineralogist
Comments: SEM image of crystals of pakhomovskyite on the matrix. (CanMin, v44:117). Location: Dolomite carbonatite cutting phoscorites in the Iron-Ore Complex, Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Scale: See Image. © Canadian Mineralogist