Perryite

Perryite is a nickel silicide mineral. It is found in extremely silicon-rich meteorites. The type material is housed at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.^[1] It was first found in Horse Creek and described in 1963 by Fredriksson and Wickman.^[2] It was named after Stuart Hoffman Perry, an American meteorite collector. The mineral is typically found intermixed with troilite, an iron sulfide.^[2] It is a minor constituent of metal enstatite chondrite meteorites.^[3]

Perryite
General
Category	Minerals
Formula	(Ni,Fe)8(Si,P)3
IMA symbol	PRY
Identification
Color	"Cream-yellow"[1]
Tenacity	Ductile[1]