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Oxides & Hydroxide

Amgaite

Tl³⁺₂Te⁶⁺O₆
Crystal systemHexagonal
ClassOxides & Hydroxide
Amgaite specimen

Aggregates of amgaite. Polished section. SEM (BSE) images. (a) botryoidal aggregate (b) fragments of colloform aggregates. The image is published in an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). — Photo: Kasatkin, Anatoly V. and Anisimova, Galina S. and Nestola, Fabrizio and Plášil, Jakub and Sejkora, Jiří and Škoda, Radek and Sokolov, Evgeniy P. and Kondratieva, Larisa A. and Kardashevskaia, Veronika N. · CC BY-SA 4.0

Amgaite

Amgaite is an IMA-recognized mineral species in the oxides & hydroxide class, with the chemical formula Tl³⁺₂Te⁶⁺O₆.

It crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal system (space group P321). It is a member of the Malladrite structural group.

IMA symbol Amgt, IMA status: approved, named in 2022.

Index entry. This entry combines official IMA/RRUFF species data with published physical-property data — a full written entry hasn’t been published yet. Browse more A minerals or help write this entry.