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Currently called cuproroméite on mindat.org which claims it is “probably cuproroméite” but the actual type material has not been analyzed by electron-microprobe for its chemical and structural properties, Partzite is named for August F.W. Partz who was the first to discover Partzite as a silver ore. Partzite occurs as a product of the alteration of antimony-rich sulfide deposits and can be found in the United States, Germany, Austria, and Australia, among just a few others.

Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/partzite.pdf

Named for its type locality at the Ragra mine near Cerro de Pasco in the Pasco province and Pasco department of Peru. An uncommon mineral, Pascoite is found in just a few localities, additionally including the Unites States and Argentina among just a couple others. Pascoite occurs with carnotite and can be found in vanadium deposits that rest near the surface and have been leached by ground water as well as in mine tunnels as efflorescences. Pascoite is soluble in water.

Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/pascoite.pdf

Named honor the contributions to mineralogy and nuclear physics that Swiss physicist Paul Scherrer had made. It is a rare mineral found at the No. 2 workings at Radium Ridge in the Mt. Painter area of Flinders Ranges in South Australia, Australia, which is its type locality, and in New Hampshire in the United States in the Ruggles and Palermo No. 1 mines. It is a canary yellow mineral that appears as tabular crystals. It is radioactive, but does not fluoresce under ultraviolet light. It has also been reported under the name “dehydrated schoepite” as a weathering product of uraninite and/or pitchblende.

Ref. Brugger, J., et al. and American Mineralogist February-March v. 96 no. 2-3 p. 229-240

Named after Dr. Richard Pearce, a Cornish-American chemist and metallurgist from Colorado, USA. Pearceite forms in hydrothermal deposits of low to medium temperatures and forms a series with polybasite. It can be found in a couple hundred localities including in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Channel Islands, and Japan among other minor localities. Pearceite was originally thought to be the arsenic analogue of polybasite.

Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/pearceite.pdf

Named after Dr. William Thomas Pecora, a former Director of the United States Geological Survey who studies nickel silicate deposits. Pecoraite is an uncommon mineral that forms as a result of the weathering of nickel-iron meteorite fragments in arid climates, along shear zones in ultramafic Archaean rocks, and in geodes. Pecoraite can be found in Australia, the United States, and Russia, among only a few others.

Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/pecoraite.pdf