The Cave of the Crystals is a natural marvel in Chihuahua, Mexico. Its main chamber houses some of the largest natural crystals ever discovered, hence the name. The magma within makes the cave unbearably hot and humid, and thus it remains largely unexplored. Nevertheless, this subterranean spect...
zinc and silver mine in which large voids have been found, containing crystals of selenite (gypsum) as large as 4 feet in diameter and 50 feet long. The chamber holding these crystals is known as the Crystal Cave of Giants, and is approximately 1000 feet...
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The article reports on a study published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" which found that the gypsum crystals in the Cueva de los Cristales in Mexico, also known as the Cave of Crystals, grow at an extremely slow rate.Powell...
Crystal Cave of Giants in Mexico The Naica Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico, is a working mine that is known for its extraordinary crystals. Naica is a lead, zinc and silver mine in which large voids have been found, containing crystals of selenite (gypsum) as large as 4 feet in diameter and ...
the ambient conditions of the Cueva de los Cristales would have been ideal for maintaining low-salinity cave-water slightly undersaturated in anhydrite (which would have originated from hydrothermal processes during the formation of the surrounding rock) and slightly supersaturated in gypsum over long ...
Two types of crystals, already described in other nearby cave by Foshag [50], are present in the Cave of Crystals in Naica the “blocky crystals” and the “beams.” Both habits show prisms bounded by {010} and {1k0} faces and capped by {-111} faces [49]. The more developed ...
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See photos of some of the world's largest crystals in a giant Mexico cave under Naica mountain—discovered by miners.
They are in the "Cave of the Crystals" cavern, Chihuahua, Mexico (a person in the lower-right quadrant of the photo serves as scale). These are some of the largest well-formed crystals in the world. The photo is a Wikimedia OTRS image by Alexander Van Driessche. Botryoidal Botryo...