Amgaite, Tl 3+ 2 Te 6+ O 6 , a New Mineral from the Khokhoyskoe Gold Deposit, Eastern Siberia, Russia

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Galina S. Anisimova, Fabrizio Nestola, Jakub Plášil, Jiří Sejkora, Radek Škoda, Evgeniy P. Sokolov, Larisa A. Kondratieva, Veronika N. Kardashevskaia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: amgaite; new mineral; Khokhoyskoe gold deposit; Amga river; Raman spectroscopy; chemistry; Mineralogy; QE351-399.2; Sakha; Aldan; Sakha Republic; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/min12091064; https://doaj.org/article/3627169d9f124725b3f3be021ab171eb

The new mineral amgaite was discovered at the Khokhoyskoe gold deposit, 120 km W of Aldan town, Aldanskiy District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Eastern Siberia, Russia. Amgaite forms fine-grained colloform aggregates up to 0.05 mm across, and is often intimately intergrown with avicennite, unidentifie...