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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 mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also 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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