AbstractUsing radioactive tracer Fe‐59 and measuring rest activities after sectioning, the tracer diffusivities of Fe in almost single crystalline magnetite Fe3‐ΔO4 have been measured as a function of temperature and oxygen partial pressure. The measured curves log DFe*/log pO2 all exhibit a minimum in the temperature range between 900°C and 1400°C in the homogeneity range of the magnetite. At sufficiently high oxygen partial pressures the slope ϱ log D Fe*/log pO2 is 2/3: at sufficiently low partial pressures it is —2/3. This allows to conclude that stoichiometric Fe3O4 has a Frenkel disorder in the cationic sublattice, while at high oxygen potentials iron ion vacancies are responsible for the cation deficit. Their electrical charge is balanced by threevalent iron ions.