Abstract
The new mineral, vanadoallanite-(La), found in the stratiform ferromanganese deposit from the Shobu area, Ise City, Mie Prefecture, Japan, is a V- and REE-rich epidote-group mineral with simplified formula CaLaV3+AlFe2+(SiO4)(Si2O7)O(OH) (Z = 2, space group P21/m). Structural refinement converged to R1 = 2.96%. The unit-cell parameters are a = 8.8985(2), b = 5.7650(1), c = 10.1185(2) Å, b = 114.120(1)º and V = 473.76(2) Å3. High Mn2+ content at A1 (0.39 apfu) also characterized this specimen.