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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz Co., California, United States
- Formula
- BaSnSi3O9
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.5x2x1.5cm
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Nearly impossible to get on the market...although there is probably more out there. Pabstite is hard to ID without the aid of the UV light as it glows bright blue under short wave. Once located in the matrix with UV, the crystals can be distinguished. In this specimen they are white to colorless and platy to maybe 1-3mm. The quarry is nonexistent I believe.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz Co., California, United States
- Formula
- BaSnSi3O9
- Size
- Miniature 3x3.5x2.5cm
- Tagged
- tin
- Special Info
- Fluorescent
- Special Info
- Type Locality
There are several colorless crystal grains in matrix. The largest at the arrow is 1.5mm, which is large for the species. The rest are smaller. All the grains are identifiable with UV since the fluoresce a bright blue. It is the tin analogue of Benitoite and very rare.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz Co., California, United States
- Formula
- BaSnSi3O9
- Size
- Miniature 4.5x2.5x2cm
- Tagged
- tin
- Special Info
- Fluorescent
- Special Info
- Type Locality
Pabstite is a rare barium-tin silicate and found at only four localities worldwide. The Kalkar quarry is the type locality. It is hard to identify the colorless crystals in matrix without the aid of shortwave UV. This is one of the richest specimen I've seen with grains to around 2mm.
