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Harmotome from Strontian, Scot.

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Harmotome from Strontian, Scot.

Harmotome from Strontian, Scot.

Courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, photograph, John H. Gerard/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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