Where it forms, where it's found
904recorded occurrences
Physical
Optical
- Optical type
- Isotropic
PPL intrinsic colour; no change on stage rotation
XPL extinct at every orientation
Crystallography
- Cell parameters
- a = 2.86 Å
Chemical composition
- Impurities
- Co
- C
- P
- S
Synonyms
- Balkeneisen
- Kamacit
- Kamacita
- Kamazit
- Kamazite
- Nickel-Eisen
Classification
Dana
8th ed.01.01.11.01
- 01Native Elements and AlloysClass
- 01.01Metals, other than the Platinum GroupType
- 01.01.11Iron-Nickel groupGroup
- 01.01.11.01KamaciteSpecies
CIM
—1.62
- 1Elements and Alloys (including the arsenides, antimonides and bismuthides of Cu, Ag and Au)Class
- 1.62— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 1.62KamaciteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1965Reed, S.J.B (1965) Election-probe microanalysis of the metallic phases in iron meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 29 (5) 535-549 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(65)90045-1DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(65)90045-1
- 1966Ramsden, A. R., Cameron, E. N. (1966) Kamacite and taenite superstructures and a metastable tetragonal phase in iron meteorites. American Mineralogist, 51 (1-2) 37-55
- 1975Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites - Their History, Distribution, Composition and Structure. University of California Press.
- 1993Clark, A. M. (1993) Hey's Mineral Index - Mineral Species, Varieties and Synonyms (3rd ed.). Natural History Museum.
- 2005(2005) Kamacite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Kamacite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/kamacite-2143},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}