Pabstite
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Pabstite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 4 x 4 x 3 cm - Miniature
- Formula
- BaSnSi3O9 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz Co., California, United States
Tiny colorless crystals to 1mm sparsely scattered through matrix. About the only way to find them is with a UV light as they are fluorescent light blue. This is an extinct locality. Pabstite is rare worldwide and occurs in only two other places. This is the type locality for this rare tin mineral.
Fluorescent, Type Locality
Pabstite
- Formula
- BaSnSi3O9
- Crystal System
- Hexagonal
- Crystal Habit
- Anhedral Grains
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- colorless, white
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Hexagonal - Ditrigonal Dipyramidal
- Hardness
- 6
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
- Special Info
- Fluorescent
- Special Info
- Type Locality
- Mineralpedia
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Pabstite
- On Dakota Matrix
- Other Available Pabstite
- WebMineral
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