There is only one bystrite deposit that was mentioned in the literature, and that deposit is found in the Malaya Bystraya lazurite deposit located 25 kilometers to the west of Slyudyanka, and just south of Lake Baikal in Russia.
It runs along the Northern shore of the Southern extremity of the lake from the town of Slyudyanka to the Baikal settlement.
In addition to the type location in the Sandy mine in New Mexico, it has been reported from Coat-an-Noz, Cotes-du-Nord, France; in drill core from the North Sea; from Klatovy, Czech Republic; Ishimskaya Luka, northern Kazakhstan; the Slyudyanka complex, Sayan Mountains, near Lake Baikal region of Russia and the Yamoto mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Slyudyanskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Slyudyanka and two rural localities in Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as