276 MINERAL CENSUS OF AUSTRALASIA. 
Great Barrier Island, Sugar Loaves, Boulder Bank, 
Nelson, Hororata district, Dusky Sound, as a con- 
stituent of granites, syenites, gneiss, trachytes and 
rhyolites. 
OzoKeERITE !—Dunstan, Otago, occurring brown coals (Hector, 
1865). 
PaxaconiTe ! !—Harper’s Hill, Two Brothers, Taipo Hill, as 
angular fragments in palagonite tufas (Haast). Analysis 
(Skey) 
Silica sis ses 38°82 
Alumina DAB PITS 
Tron oxide 6°30 
Lime 3°65 
Magnesia ae, 
Alkatlies ti Suh. 2:08 
Water Bit th ae eh | 5) 
Carbonaceous matter ... ... traces 
99:97 
Peart Spar !—Thames (Hector, 1878). 
Perroteum ! !—Sugar Loaves, Taranaki, from deep-seated coals, 
altered by voleanic dykes. A specific gravity, -960 to 
‘964, rich in lubricants (Hector, Geol. Rep., 1866 ; 
Poverty Bay and Waiapu, deep wells and surface 
springs from middle jurrassic strata (Hector, Geol. Rep., 
1873). Paraffin oil, sp. gr. ‘843 to °872, yielded 647 to 
84% kerosene (Skey). 
Picrouite !—Dun Mountain, coarsely fibrous, of a dark-green 
colour (Cox). 
PicrosMInE !—Dun Mountain, associated with chromite, and is 
also found as a network of veins in which crystals of 
bronzite occur (Cox). 
PIMELITE !—Malvern Hills, Clent Hills, filling cavities in 
amygdaloidal rocks (Haast). 
Pisracite !—West Coast, Mount Torlesse, Mount Somers, 
Wairarapa, in gneiss, granite, and granulite, and in 
melaphyres (Hector, Haast). 
Pircustone !|—Mount Somers, Snowy Peak, associated with 
quartz porphyries (Haast). 
Puatininipum !— Takaka, Orepuke, as grains in gold-wash 
(Hochstetter). 
Pratinum (Native) !—Orepuke, Stewart Island, Collingwood, 
Nelson, Takaka, in the form of small flat grains of a 
steel-grey or white colour, associated with gold and 
zircons in southern goldfields, but it has never been 
found in reef (Hector). 
