A NEW mineral niahite, NH4(Mn 2 +,Mg,Ca)PO4. H20, is found as fine radiating and sub-parallel clusters of crystals up to 0.5 mm in size in soft, fine-grained newberyite, MgHPO4" 3H20, in the Niah Great Cave, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is closely associated with what appears to be a 'gypsum variant', collophane, hannayite, struvite, variscite, and an unidentified zinc potassium phosphate, all derived from the breakdown of guano. Other associated minerals are gypsum, brushite?, vivianire, ardealite, and variants, strengite, monetite, whitlockite, leucophosphite, taranakite, opal, and quartz. A chemical analysis of niahite was obtained by means of a combination of electron probe microanalysis using analysed apatite (for Ca and P), MgO, and pure Mn as standards, and microchemical methods (for N, H, and P). The following figures were obtained: (NH4)20 12.9, MnO 27.21, MgO 4.19, CaO 1.99, P205 37.83, H20 11.88, total 96.00 %. This yields the empirical formula (NH,,)0.93 (Mn2 +0.72Mgo.2oCao.o6)~o.9sP1.0003.9s-1.23 H20 on the basis of P = 1. Single crystal X-ray studies could not be made due to the very soft and fragile nature of niahite, but the X-ray powder pattern is very close to that of NH4MgPO4'H20 in pattern 20-663 in the JCPDS Powder Diffraction File, and similar to NH4MnPO4"H20, JCPDS pattern 3-0027. The strongest lines in the X-ray powder pattern are given in Table I. The pattern can be indexed on an orthorhombic unit cell with a 5.68, b 8.78, c 4.88/k, and Z = 2. The (hkl) indices satisfy the extinction rule for space group Pmn21.