Both minerals are thus far restricted to the area of Listvenitovyi Stream, in the Khatyrka ultramafic (silicon-poor) zone of the KoryakâKamchatka fold area, Koryak Mountains, Beringovsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
It occurs as tiny 0.1 mm grains in a small terrestrial rock sample labelled "khatyrkite, Khatyrka ultramafic zone, Koryak-Kamchatka area, Koryak Mountains, Russia", collected from an outcrop of weathered serpentinite (catalog number 46407/G, housed in The Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, Italy).