This alphabetical listing of P minerals include synonyms of accepted mineral names,
pronunciation of that name, name origins, and locality information.
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NAME ORIGIN: For lead, PLUMBum, in the mineral's composition, and the type locality, TSUMeb, Namibia. LOCALITY: From Tsumeb, Namibia. In the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the feathery habit (plumose).
Podlesnoite BaCa2(CO3)2F2 Approved IMA 2006 (Dana # Added)
NAME ORIGIN: Named (pronounced "pod-lez'-no-ite") for Aleksandr Semenovich Podlesnyi (born 1948), Russian amateur mineralogist and prominent mineral collector, in recognition of his significant contributions to the mineralogy of the Khibiny massif
NAME ORIGIN: Named after Yuri Aleksandrovich Polkanov (b. 1935), Academician, Institute of Mineral Resources, Academy of Technical Sciences of Ukraine, known for his studies of the mineralogy and ore deposits of the Crimean Peninsula, and particularly of placers.
Polkovicite (Fe,Pb)3(Ge,Fe)1-xS4 Approved IMA 1979
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the locality. LOCALITY: Polkovice mine, Lower Silesia, Poland.
Pollucite (Cs,Na)2Al2Si4O12 Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1846
NAME ORIGIN: Named after Pollux, a figure from Greek mythology, brother of Castor, for its common association with "castorite" (petalite).
Polyakovite-(Ce) (Ce,La,Nd,Pr,Ca)4(Mg,Fe++)(Cr,Fe+++)2(Ti,Nb)2Si4O22 Approved IMA 1998 (Dana # Added)
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Vladislav O. Polyakoy (1950-1993), Russian mineralogist.
Polybasite [Ag9CuS4] [(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7] Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1829
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek, poly, "many" and basis, "a base" in allusion to the basic character of the compound.
NAME ORIGIN: For the mountain Pretul, one of the localities at which the mineral occurs. LOCALITY: The type locality is 100 m southwest of Hollkegel, which is 12 km south-southwest of Murzzuschlag, Fischbacher Alpen, Styria, Austria.
Prewittite KPb1.5ZnCu6O2(SeO3)2Cl10 Proposed IMA 2002 (Dana # Added)
NAME ORIGIN: Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC)
NAME ORIGIN: Named as the proto-type analog of anthophyllite. The prefix proto refers to a half-rotation about the b axis between successive layers of octahedra.
NAME ORIGIN: The name indicates the structural relationship to protoamphiboles, and the compositional relationship to protoferro-anthophyllite and anthophyllite.