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Partly skeletonal, but euhedral, galena crystal (about 4 by 2 by 2cm) on a bed of red-brown garnet from the San Juan chimney in the El Mochito mine, Honduras. The red-brown garnets are the latest/most proximal garnets in a zoned sequence from yellow-green to green to green-brown to brown to red-brown. Photo by Larry Meinert of a sample rescued from black market oblivion by the executive intervention of Scott Parks and Bob Byrd.

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Last Updated: March 25, 2009
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