Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Iron meteorite.
- Type locality
- Horse Creek meteorite
- Baca County
- Colorado
- USA
37.5833°, -102.7667°
25recorded occurrences
Physical
- Colour
- Silver-white
Crystallography
- Space group
- #85
- Cell parameters
- a = 6.6525(5) Å · c = 37.998(5) Å
- Unit cell volume
- 1456.3 ų
- Z
- 6
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Perryiet
In other languages
- German
- Perryit
- Italian
- Perryite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.1.BB.10
- 1ElementsClass
- 1.BMetallic Carbides, Silicides, Nitrides, Phosphides and HydridesDivision
- 1.BBSilicidesGroup
- 1.BB.10PerryiteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.01.01.22.01
- 01Native Elements and AlloysClass
- 01.01Metals, other than the Platinum GroupType
- 01.01.22— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 01.01.22.01PerryiteSpecies
CIM
—2.16
- 2Carbides, Nitrides, Silicides and PhosphidesClass
- 2.16— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 2.16PerryiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- —Chemical Abstracts 115: 103-198.
- 1965Fredriksson, K., Henderson, E.P. (1965) The Horse Creek, Baca County, Colorado, iron meteorite. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union: 46: 121-121.
- 1967Fleischer, Michael (1967) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 52 (3-4) 559-564
- 1968Reed, 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 DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1968.036.282.13
- 1969Fleischer, Michael (1969) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 54 (1-2) 326-330
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Perryite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/perryite-3170},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}