The Cave of Crystals is an underground cavern filled with tree-size gypsum crystals, including some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The cave is located around 980 feet (300 meters) deep ...

Seventeen years ago, two brothers who worked for Industrias Peñoles were mining a tunnel underneath the Naica Mountain in Chihuahua, Mexico. They accidentally stumbled upon the Sistine Chapel of ...

Giant crystals found in Naica min in Chihuahua, Mexico stand up to 36 feet tall and have measured over three feet wide. NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team ...

These huge gypsum crystals in Mexico's Naica caves, some up to 12m long, have been growing for tens of thousands of years -- but scientists have only now discovered what's inside them. "We've ...

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The town known as Naica in the northern state of Chihuaha, Mexico, has been dedicated to mining since 1794; but the mine got its international reputation only a couple years ago when the so-called ...

Wearing an ice-pack vest, Mario Corsalini stands by a giant rosette of gypsum in the Naica Mine's crystal cavern. A multifaceted "butterfly" crystal clings to the wall in the Naica Mine's Cave of ...

Crystals dwarf an explorer in Mexico’s Naica cave complex. (Photo by Alexander Van Driessche – CC BY 3.0) BOSTON – It sounds like a sci-fi tale: Scientists manage to revive strains of microbes that ...

Penelope Boston, then a professor at New Mexico Tech, sits on a giant selenite crystal in the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, with colleague Danielle Winget. In 2009, Boston and her team used sterile ...