Min. [f. Baste in the Harz Mountains, where first found + -ITE.] A bronze- or greenish-colored impure foliated serpentine; also called Schiller-spar.
1837–68. Dana, Min., 409.
1879. Rutley, Stud. Rocks, x. 120. Enstatite becomes altered to schiller-spar or bastite.
