Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Copper-nickel sulfide deposit
- Type locality
- Mayak Mine
- Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit
- Norilsk-Talnakh Mining Region
- Taimyr Peninsula
- Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Russia
69.5034°, 88.4280°
31recorded occurrences
Safety & handling
Physical
- Hardness
- 1Talc
- 2Gypsum
- 3Calcite
- 4Fluorite
- 5Apatite
- 6Orthoclase
- 7Quartz
- 8Topaz
- 9Corundum
- 10Diamond
- Transparency
- Opaque
- Colour
- Grayish white · but lilac-gray when intergrown with native silver · and distinctly rosy with a soft lilac tint with polarite · and grayish-white with a greenish tint with stannopalladinite
- Density
- 9.33 g/cm³
Optical
- Optical colour
- Grayish white, but lilac-gray when intergrown with native silver, distinctly rosy with a soft lilac tint with polarite, and grayish-white with a greenish tint with stannopalladinite
- Anisotropism
- Weak, without color effects
- Bireflectance
- None
- Tropism
- Anisotropic
- Reflectance R%
- (47.4) 440, (50.5) 480, (52.3) 520, (54.4) 560, (55.8) 600, (56.7) 640, (57.9) 680, (59.0) 720
Reflected-light panel
R̄ 54.2 %isotropic · single curve
Specimen
White reference
Crystallography
- Cell parameters
- a = 6.066 Å · c = 7.20 Å
- Z
- 6
- Type-locality form
Intergrowths with other platinum group minerals in chalcopyrite and talnakhite ores. Often occurs as rounded or oval inclusions (0.001-0.1 mm) in polarite and also as intergrowths with stannopalladinite.
- Comment
Point Group: n.d.; Space Group: n.d.
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA1974-038
- Majakiet
- Mayakit
- Mayakita
- Mayakite
In other languages
- German
- IMA 1974-038 · Majakit
- Italian
- majakite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.2.AC.25e
- 2Sulfides and SulfosaltsClass
- 2.AAlloysDivision
- 2.ACAlloys of metalloids with PGEGroup
- 2.AC.25eMajakiteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.02.04.16.01
- 02SulfidesClass
- 02.04AmBnXp, with (m+n):p = 2:1Type
- 02.04.16— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 02.04.16.01MajakiteSpecies
CIM
—3.12.27
- 3Sulphides, Selenides, Tellurides, Arsenides and Bismuthides (except the arsenides, antimonides and bismuthides of Cu, Ag and Au, which are included in Section 1)Class
- 3.12Sulphides etc. of the platinum metalsGroup
- 3.12.27MajakiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- —Proceedings EPDIC-6, 6th. European Powder Diffraction Conference: 117-122.
- 1976Genkin, A.D., Evstigneeva, T.L., Troneva, N.V., Vyal´sov, L.N. (1976) Majakite, PdNiAs, a new mineral from copper-nickel sulfide ores. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva: 105(6): 698-703.
- 1977Fleischer, Michael, Cabri, Louis J., Pabst, and Adolf (1977) New mineral names. American Mineralogist, 62 (11-12) 1259-1262
- 2000Evstigneeva, T., Kabalov, Yu., Schneider, J. (2000) Crystal Structure of PdNiAs, Ordered Member of Isomorphous Series Pd2As-Ni2As. Materials Science Forum, 321. 700-704 doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.321-324.700DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.321-324.700
- 2005(2005) Majakite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Majakite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/majakite-2545},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}