d="p-1">A new mineral species, scottyite, ideally BaCu2Si2O7, has been found in the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The mineral appears to have formed as a result of a hydrothermal event and is associated with wesselsite, pectolite, richterite, sugilite, and lavinskyite. Scottyite forms blocky grains with striations parallel to the c axis. Crystals are found up to 0.4 x 0.3 x 0.3 mm. No twinning is observed. The mineral is dark-blue in transmitted and under incident lights, transparent with pale blue streak and vitreous luster. It is brittle and has a Mohs hardness of 4~5; cleavage is perfect on {100} and {010} and no parting was observed. The calculated density is 4.654 g/cm3. Optically, scottyite is biaxial (-), with α = 1.750(1), ß = 1.761(1), and γ = 1.765(1), 2
d="p-2">Scottyite is the natural analog of synthetic BaCu2(Si,Ge)2O7, which exhibits novel one-dimensional quantum spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic properties with tunable super-exchange interactions. It is ortho-rhombic, with space group
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