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Perryite

A valid IMA mineral species - grandfathered

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Perryite, etc.

Mount Egerton meteorite, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Perryite, etc.

Mount Egerton meteorite, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Perryite, etc.

Mount Egerton meteorite, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Perryite, etc.

Mount Egerton meteorite, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Perryite, etc.

Mount Egerton meteorite, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Perryite, etc.

Mount Egerton meteorite, Upper Gascoyne Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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About PerryiteHide

Stuart H. Perry

Formula:

(Ni,Fe)₅(Si,P)₂

also given as (Ni,Fe)₁₆PSi₅ (from structure solution)

Colour:

Silver-white

Crystal System:

Trigonal

Name:

Named in honor of Stuart Hoffman Perry (13 October 1874, Pontiac, Michigan, USA - 14 February 1957, Tucson, Arizona, USA), newspaper publisher and authority on meteorites.

Type Locality:

ⓘ Horse Creek meteorite, Baca County, Colorado, USA

A meteoric mineral.

Recent crystal structure solution, based on Mount Egerton aubrite material, shows it to be the first example of P-Si ordering in natural phosphide-silicide.

Unique IdentifiersHide

Mindat ID:

3170

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:1:3170:3

Similar NamesHide

Berryite

A valid IMA mineral species

Cu₃Ag₂Pb₃Bi₇S₁₆

IMA Classification of PerryiteHide

IMA status:

Approved, 'Grandfathered' (first described prior to 1959)

IMA Formula:

(Ni,Fe)₈(Si,P)₃

First published:

1965

Type description reference:

Fredriksson, K., Henderson, E.P. (1965) The Horse Creek, Baca County, Colorado, iron meteorite. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union: 46: 121-121.

Classification of PerryiteHide

Strunz-mindat (2026):

1.BB.10

1 : ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides)
B : Metallic Carbides, Silicides, Nitrides, Phosphides and Hydrides
B : Silicides

Dana 7th ed.:

1.1.35.1

Dana 8th ed.:

1.1.22.1

1 : NATIVE ELEMENTS AND ALLOYS
1 : Metals, other than the Platinum Group

Hey's CIM Ref.:

2.16

2 : Carbides, Nitrides, Silicides and Phosphides

Mineral SymbolsHide

As of 2021 there are now IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols (abbreviations) for each mineral species, useful for tables and diagrams.

Symbol	Source	Reference for Standard
Pry	IMA–CNMNC	Warr, L.N. (2021). IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols. Mineralogical Magazine, 85(3), 291-320. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43

Physical Properties of PerryiteHide

Colour:

Silver-white

Chemistry of PerryiteHide

Mindat Formula:

(Ni,Fe)₅(Si,P)₂

also given as (Ni,Fe)₁₆PSi₅ (from structure solution)

Element Weights:

Element	% weight
Ni	83.935 %
Si	16.066 %

Calculated from ideal end-member formula.

Elements listed:

Fe, Ni, P, Si - search for minerals with similar chemistry

Crystallography of PerryiteHide

Crystal System:

Trigonal

Class (H-M):

3m - Ditrigonal Pyramidal

Space Group:

R3c

Cell Parameters:

a = 6.6525(5) Å, c = 37.998(5) Å

Ratio:

a:c = 1 : 5.712

Unit Cell V:

1456.3 Å³

Crystal StructureHide

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ID	Species	Reference	Link	Year	Locality	Pressure (GPa)	Temp (K)
0009330	Perryite	Marsh R E (1994) The centrosymmetric - noncentrosymmetric ambiguity: some more examples Acta Crystallographica A50 450-455		1994	synthetic	0	293

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Ni1   0.33160   7.41760   0.05226   0.97000   0.00690
Fe1   0.33160   7.41760   0.05226   0.03000   0.00690
Ni2   0.33760   4.03347   0.01744   0.97000   0.00470
Fe2   0.33760   4.03347   0.01744   0.03000   0.00470
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Fe3   0.00000   0.00000   0.21863   0.03000   0.00560
Ni4   0.00000   0.00000   0.05959   0.97000   0.00560
Fe4   0.00000   0.00000   0.05959   0.03000   0.00560
Si1  -0.31570  20.00000   0.25000   0.79000   0.00560
P1  -0.31570  20.00000   0.25000   0.21000   0.00560
Si2   0.00000   0.00000   0.15823   0.79000   0.00430
P2   0.00000   0.00000   0.15823   0.21000   0.00430
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P3   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.21000   0.00220
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Ni1 0.00660 0.01140 0.00010 0.00260 0.00050 0.00070
Fe1 0.00660 0.01140 0.00010 0.00260 0.00050 0.00070
Ni2 0.00600 0.00740 -0.00020 0.00260 -0.00110 0.00140
Fe2 0.00600 0.00740 -0.00020 0.00260 -0.00110 0.00140
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Si3 0.00540 0.00540 -0.00410 0.00270 0.00000 0.00000
P3 0.00540 0.00540 -0.00410 0.00270 0.00000 0.00000

X-Ray Powder DiffractionHide

Powder Diffraction Data:

d-spacing	Intensity
1.977 Å	(100)
1.924 Å	(100)
2.150 Å	(64)
2.103 Å	(64)
1.778 Å	(41)
2.613 Å	(33)
2.585 Å	(33)

Comments:

Synthetic

Geological EnvironmentHide

Paragenetic Mode(s):

Paragenetic Mode	Earliest Age (Ga)
Stage 1: Primary nebular phases	4.567-4.561
4 : Primary chondrule phases	4.566–4.561
Stage 2: Planetesimal differentiation and alteration	4.566-4.550
5 : Primary asteroid phases	4.566–4.560

Type Occurrence of PerryiteHide

Type Locality:

ⓘ Horse Creek meteorite, Baca County, Colorado, USA

Place of Conservation of Type Material:

National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA.

Geological Setting of Type Material:

Iron meteorite.

Reference:

Fredriksson, K., Henderson, E.P. (1965) The Horse Creek, Baca County, Colorado, iron meteorite. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union: 46: 121-121.

Other Language Names for PerryiteHide

Dutch:Perryiet

German:Perryit

Russian:Перриит

Simplified Chinese:硅磷镍矿

Spanish:Perryita

Traditional Chinese:硅磷鎳礦

Common AssociatesHide

Associations Based on Photo Data:

1 photo of Perryite associated with Native Iron	Fe
1 photo of Perryite associated with 'Kamacite'	(Fe,Ni)

Related Minerals - Strunz-mindat Grouping Hide

1.BB.	Toledoite	TiFeSi	Orth. mm2 : Ima2
1.BB.	Zangboite	TiFeSi₂	Orth. mmm(2/m2/m2/m) : Pbam
1.BB.	Kangjinlaite	Ti₁₁Si₁₀	Tet. 4/mmm(4/m2/m2/m) : I4/mmm
1.BB.	Brownleeite	MnSi	Iso. 23 : P2₁3
1.BB.	Yeite	TiSi	Orth. mmm(2/m2/m2/m) : Pnma
1.BB.05	Mavlyanovite	Mn₅Si₃	Hex. 6/mmm(6/m2/m2/m) : P6₃/mcm
1.BB.05	Suessite	Fe₃Si	Iso. m3m(4/m32/m) : Im3m
1.BB.10	'UM2001-18-Si:CuPtSn'	(Cu,Pt)₄Si
1.BB.15	Naquite	FeSi	Iso. 23 : P2₁3
1.BB.20	Linzhiite	FeSi₂	Tet. 4/mmm(4/m2/m2/m) : P4/mmm
1.BB.25	Luobusaite	Fe_0.84Si₂	Orth. mmm(2/m2/m2/m) : Cmca
1.BB.30	Gupeiite	Fe₃Si	Iso. m3m(4/m32/m) : Fm3m
1.BB.35	Hapkeite	Fe₂Si	Iso. m3m(4/m32/m) : Pm3m
1.BB.40	Xifengite	Fe₅Si₃	Hex. 6/mmm(6/m2/m2/m) : P6₃/mcm
1.BB.45	Carletonmooreite	Ni₃Si	Iso. m3m(4/m32/m) : Pm3m
1.BB.55	Palladosilicide	Pd₂Si	Hex. 6m2 : P62m
1.BB.65	Zhiqinite	TiSi₂	Orth. mmm(2/m2/m2/m) : Fddd

Other InformationHide

Notes:

EBSD shows its relationships with associated α-(Fe,Ni) metal and schreibersite

Health Risks:

No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

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References for PerryiteHide

Reference List:

Chemical Abstracts 115: 103-198.

Fredriksson, K., Henderson, E.P. (1965) The Horse Creek, Baca County, Colorado, iron meteorite. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union: 46: 121-121.

Fleischer, Michael (1967) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 52 (3-4) 559-564

Reed, S. J. B. (1968) Perryite in the Kota-Kota and South Oman enstatite chondrites. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 36 (282) 850-854 doi:10.1180/minmag.1968.036.282.13

Fleischer, Michael (1969) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 54 (1-2) 326-330

Fleischer, Michael (1969) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 54 (3-4) 573-580

Wasson, J.T., Wai, C.M. (1970) Composition of the metal, schreibersite and perryite of enstatite achondrites and the origin of enstatite chondrites and achondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: 34: 169-184.

Wai, C.M. (1970) The metal phase of Horse Creek, Mount Egerton, and Norton County enstatitic meteorites. Mineralogical Magazine: 37: 905-908.

Fleischer, Michael (1971) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 56 (5-6) 1121-1123

Okada, A., Kobayashi, K., Ito, T., Sakurai, T. (1991) Structure of synthetic perryite, (Ni,Fe)8(Si,P)3. Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, 47 (7). 1358-1361 doi:10.1107/s0108270191000483

Jambor, L., Vanko, David A. (1992) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 77 (3-4) 446-452

Marsh, R. E. (1994) The centrosymmetric–noncentrosymmetric ambiguity: some more examples. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, 50 (4). 450-455 doi:10.1107/s0108767393012796

(2005) Perryite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America

Mikouchi, T., Zolensky, M., Tachikawa, O., Komatsu, M., Ivanova, M.A., Le, L., Gounelle, M. (2006) Electron back-scatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis of two unusual minerals in carbonaceous chondrites. Lunar and Planetary Science: 37: 1855-1855.

Britvin, S. N., Krivovichev, S. V., Vereshchagin, O. S., Vlasenko, N. S., Shilovskikh, V. V., Krzhizhanovskaya, M. G., Lozhkin, M. S., Obolonskaya, E. V., Kopylova, Y. O. (2021) Perryite, (Ni,Fe)₁₆PSi₅, from the Mount Egerton aubrite: the first natural P-Si-ordered phosphide-silicide. Journal of GEOsciences, 66 (4) 189-198 doi:10.3190/jgeosci.331

Localities for PerryiteHide

Showing 29 localities.

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- World class for species or very significant. (TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species. (FRL) - First Recorded Locality for everything else (eg varieties). ~~Struck out~~ - Mineral was erroneously reported from this locality. Faded * - Never found at this locality but inferred to have existed at some point in the past (e.g. from pseudomorphs).

All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.


Africa
Sahara Desert ⓘ Sahara 97072 meteorite	Gannoun et al. (2011)
ⓘ Sahara 97096 meteorite	Piani et al. (2016)

Antarctica
East Antarctica ⓘ MacAlpine Hills 88136 meteorite	Lin et al. (2002)
Pecora Escarpment LaPaz Ice Field ⓘ LaPaz Ice Field 02225 meteorite	Satterwhite et al. (2004) +1 other reference
Queen Maud Land Queen Fabiola Mountains ⓘ Yamato 691 meteorite	El Gorsey et al. (1988)
ⓘ Yamato 82189 meteorite	Lin et al. (1998)
Victoria Land Allan Hills ⓘ Allan Hills 88070 meteorite	The Meteoritical Bulletin
ⓘ Allan Hills A77295 meteorite	Gannoun et al. (2011)
Queen Alexandra Range ⓘ Queen Alexandra Range 94204 meteorite	Weisberg et al. (1997)

Australia
Western Australia Upper Gascoyne Shire ⓘ Mount Egerton meteorite	Wai (1970) +2 other references

Azerbaijan
Aghjabadi District Hindarx ⓘ Indarch meteorite	Baryshnikova +2 other references

China
Guizhou Guiyang Qingzhen County ⓘ Qingzhen meteorite	Daode Wang and Rambaldi (1988)

Finland
Satakunta Huittinen ⓘ Hvittis meteorite	Keil (1968)

France
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Drôme Nyons Aubres ⓘ Aubres meteorite	Easton (1986)

India
Bihar Muzaffarpur District ⓘ Parsa meteorite	Nehru et al. (1984)

Libya
Jufra District Dar al Gani ⓘ Dar Al Gani 319 (DaG 319) meteorite	Ikeda et al. (2000)

Malawi
Central Region Nkhotakota ⓘ Kota-Kota meteorite (Marimba meteorite)	Reed (1968)

Northwest Africa Meteorites
ⓘ Northwest Africa 4799 meteorite (NWA 4799)	Bunch et al. (2008)
ⓘ Northwest Africa 4871 meteorite (NWA 4871)	Weisberg et al. (2008)

Oman
Al Wusta Governorate ⓘ South Oman meteorite	Reed (1968)

Pakistan
Punjab Province Bahawalpur District ⓘ Khairpur meteorite	Kimura et al. (2005)

South Africa
Eastern Cape Chris Hani District Municipality Intsika Yethu Local Municipality ⓘ St. Mark's meteorite	Cairncross et al. (1995)
Northern Cape ZF Mgcawu District Municipality Kgatelopele Local Municipality Daniëlskuil ⓘ Daniel's Kuil meteorite	Kimura et al. (2005)

Sudan
River Nile ⓘ Almahata Sitta meteorite	Addi Bischoff et al. (2010)

USA (TL)
Colorado Baca County ⓘ Horse Creek meteorite (TL)	Fredriksson et al. (1965) +1 other reference
Kansas Norton County ⓘ Norton County meteorite	Am Min 67:132-136 +2 other references
South Carolina Lee County Bishopville ⓘ Bishopville meteorite	Rubin (2015)

Western Sahara
al-Saqiyah al-Hamra'a (Saguia el Hamra) ⓘ Itqiy meteorite ?	Patzer et al. (2001)

Yemen
Hadhramaut Governorate ⓘ Kaidun meteorite	Zolensky et al. (2003)

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