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Honduras, Santa Bárbara Department
El Mochito Mine, Honduras
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: rhodochrosite, galena, sphalerite, helvite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: skarn/replacement Ag-Pb-Zn
Major Central American base-metal mine documented on mindat with specimen species.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Active mining, underground
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