Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Meteorite panned from river.
- Type locality
- Khatyrka meteorite
- Iomrautvaam massif
- Anadyrsky District
- Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
- Russia
62.6531°, 174.5006°
4recorded occurrences
Physical
Optical
- Optical colour
- isotropic sections are pale blue, anisotropic sections are blue to creamy pink
- Anisotropism
- Distinct, grayish yellow to brownish red.
- Tropism
- Anisotropic
Crystallography
- Space group
- I4/mcm
- Cell parameters
- a = 6.06(1) Å · c = 4.87(1) Å
- Z
- 4
- Type-locality form
As prismatic crystals, to 400 µm, and intimately intergrown with cupalite in small grains
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA1983-085
- Khatyrkiet
In other languages
- German
- IMA 1983-085 · Khatyrkit
- Spanish
- Khatyrkita
- Italian
- Khatyrkite
- Japanese
- カチルク鉱
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.1.AA.15
- 1ElementsClass
- 1.AMetals and Intermetallic AlloysDivision
- 1.AACopper-cupalite familyGroup
- 1.AA.15KhatyrkiteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.01.01.15.02
- 01Native Elements and AlloysClass
- 01.01Metals, other than the Platinum GroupType
- 01.01.15— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 01.01.15.02KhatyrkiteSpecies
CIM
—1.22
- 1Elements and Alloys (including the arsenides, antimonides and bismuthides of Cu, Ag and Au)Class
- 1.22— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 1.22KhatyrkiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- —https://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/miclib/phase_diagrams.php?id=2
- 1971Havinga, E.E., Damsma, H., Hokkeling, P. (1971) Compounds and pseudo-binary alloys with the CuAl2(C16)- type structure. Journal of the Less-Common Metals: 27: 169-186.
- 1985Razin, L.V., Rudashevskij, N.S., and Vyalsov, L.N. (1985) New natural intermetallic compounds of aluminium, copper and zinc—khatyrkite CuAl2, cupalite, CuAl and zinc aluminides—from hyperbasites of dunite-harzburgite formation. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva: 114: 90–100 (in Russian).
- 1986Hawthorne, Frank C., Fleischer, Michael, Grew, Edward S., Grice, Joel D., Jambor, John L., Puziewicz, J., Roberts, Andrew C., Vanko, D. A., Zilczer, J. A. (1986) New mineral names. American Mineralogist, 71. 1277-1282
- 1989Meetsma, A., De Boer, J.L., Van Smaalen, S. (1989) Refinement of the crystal structure of tetragonal Al2Cu. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 83. 370-372 doi:10.1016/0022-4596(89)90188-6DOI: 10.1016/0022-4596(89)90188-6
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Khatyrkite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/khatyrkite-2197},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}