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Spectrolite

It has a hardness of 6.5 on the Moh's scale. It is found only at Ylamaa, a remote location in eastern Finland.

Spectrolite was discovered quite by accident during the Second World War, when stones was being quarried along Finland's eastern border for the purpose of making tank traps.

 


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