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Originally Posted by fkshiu
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CaribSea got busted for illegally importing 42,000 lbs. of LR from Haiti contrary to CITES (an entire container load).
They were fined a total of about $35,000 and put on probation. The rock went to some research institute.
Makes you wonder where they get all that nice sand the company packages up and sell for a ransom from . . .
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They get it mostly from the aragonite mine in the Bahamas:
http://www.dredge.com/casestudies/dred2-08.htm
Cheers,
Vic [Veng68]