UFe 6 Ga 6 polycrystalline samples were prepared by arc-melting, and single crystals were grown by the Czochralski method. This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic ScFe 6 Ga 6 -type structure (space group Immm, aZ5.0560(4), bZ8.5484(7) and cZ8.6914(7) Å ), an ordered variant of the ThMn 12 -type structure. A ferromagnetic-type transition at T C Z530(5) K is seen in the magnetization and A.C.-susceptibility measurements, and no other magnetic anomaly is observed down to 5 K. Single crystal magnetization measurements along the three different crystallographic axes indicated a as the easy direction, with a spontaneous magnetization M S Z12.3 m B /f.u. at 5 K. The analysis of the 57 Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy data indicated magnetic hyperfine fields, B hf , significantly lower on 4f sites than on 8k sites, in agreement with the trend already observed on UFe x Al 12Kx , where the average B hf were found to increase with the iron-iron interatomic distances. q