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The Cave of the Crystals is connected to the Naica Mine, 300m (980 ft.) below the ground in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. Despite the Naica Mine having been worked for centuries, the Cave of the Crystals remained undiscovered until the year 2000, when two miners, pursuing traces of silver, ...
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 50 feet long. The chamber holding...
Caves stumbled upon deep in the workings of the Naica mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, are famed for the huge, elongated crystals of selenite that they contain. The most spectacular such discovery, the transparently named Cueva de los Cristales, came in 2000. Credit: J. TRUEBA/GEOL. SOC. AM. Th...
Crystal Caves is the 37th episode of Farm Heroes Saga. The Crystal Caves are in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. This is the second episode that have 20 levels.
The caves are also well known for the birds' nest collection. Caves are also important for geological research because they can reveal details of past climactic conditions in speleothems and sediment layers. The word 'cave' is sometimes a metaphor for the mind, hidden within is sacred ...