Min. [f. Baste in the Harz Mountains, where first found + -ITE.] A bronze- or greenish-colored impure foliated serpentine; also called Schiller-spar.

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1837–68.  Dana, Min., 409.

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1879.  Rutley, Stud. Rocks, x. 120. Enstatite becomes altered to schiller-spar or bastite.

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