The crystal structure of yoshimuraite, ideally Ba 2 Mn 2 TiO(Si 2 O 7 )(PO 4 )(OH), has been determined and refined to residuals of R = 3.0% and wR = 4.1% using material from the Taguchi mine, Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. It is triclinic, P1, with cell parameters a 5.386(1), b 6.999(1), c 14.748(3) Å, ␣ 89.98(1),  93.62(2), ␥ 95.50(2)%, V 552.3(1) Å 3 , with Z = 2. The mineral is strongly layered on (001), consisting of two quasi-tetrahedral layers composed of TiO 5 polyhedra cross-linked by cornersharing (Si 2 O 7 ) clusters. These layers bound on two sides a layer of closest-packed Mn 6 octahedra, thus forming a composite unit reminiscent of that found in 2:1 phyllosilicates. Such composite units are subsequently linked along [001] via an interlayerlike [Ba 2 (PO 4 )] sheet, the bonding between the two being relatively weak and resulting in the pronounced {001} cleavage observed in the mineral. Yoshimuraite is a member of the BM n heterophyllosilicate polysomatic series [specifically, the BM 0 polysome series], which includes phases such as astrophyllite, bafertisite and seidozerite.Keywords: yoshimuraite, barium manganese titanium silicophosphate hydrate, heterophyllosilicate polysomatic series, Taguchi mine, Japan.
SOMMAIRENous avons résolu la structure cristalline de la yoshimuraïte, dont la composition idéale est Ba 2 Mn 2 TiO(Si 2 O 7 )(PO 4 )(OH), jusqu'à un résidu R de 3.0% (wR = 4.1%) en utilisant un échantillon de la mine Taguchi, préfecture d'Aichi, île de Honshu, au Japon. Il s'agit d'un minéral triclinique, P1, dont les paramètres réticulaires sont a 5.386 (1)
650THE CANADIAN MINERALOGIST preponderance of P 5+ over S 6+ in the isolated tetrahedral site.
X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE DETERMINATIONFor X-ray-diffraction intensity data, a plate measuring 0.09 ϫ 0.06 ϫ 0.04 mm was selected. Although Watanabe et al. (1961) indicated that the crystals of yoshimuraite examined by them all exhibit what they interpreted to be polysynthetic twinning on {001} (twin law unknown), the crystal used in this present study shows no evidence of such twinning after being studied by optical microscopy and X-ray-precession techniques. Single-crystal X-ray-precession photographs confirm that the mineral is triclinic, with possible space-groups P1 and P1. Intensity data were collected on a fully automated Nicolet R3m four-circle diffractometer. A set of 25 reflections was used to orient the crystal and to refine the cell dimensions. Intensity data were collected out to 2 = 60° using the :2 scan mode and a scan range of 2°. A variable scan-rate inversely proportional to the peak intensity was used, with maximum and minimum scan-rates of 29.3° 2/min and 4.0° 2/min, respectively. Data pertinent to the collection of the intensity data are given in Table 2.The data were subsequently corrected for Lorentz, polarization, background effects and absorption and reduced to structure factors using the SHELXTL PC (Sheldrick 1990) package of computer programs. For the ellipsoidal absorption correction, eleve...