Scapolite is a common mineral in high-temperature skarn deposits in which it has formed during contact metamorphism of carbonate rocks. It is, however, rare in low grade, regionally metamorphosed rocks, in which it has been described from meta-evaporite sequences (Hietanen, 1967; Ramsay and Davidson, 1970; Behr et al., 1983). Manby (1983) described scapolite occurrences from greenschist facies limestones and metapelites but did not specify the depositional environment of the host rocks. In this report an occurrence of scapolite in the turbiditic Okonguarri Formation of the Northern Zone of the Damara Orogen is described (see Fig. 1 for locality). The depositional environment of the host rock and the petrographic characteristics of the scapolite differ from the previously described occurrences of this mineral.