In 2000, while working in the Naica mine in Mexico, about 300 meters underground, two miners accidentally discovered an astonishing chamber unlike any other. This cave is unlike any other; it contains the largest natural crystals ever found on Earth.
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Real life Fortress of Solitude
I would be curious to see a new photo, wonder how much has been harvested.
And the cave is so hot and toxic that you can’t enter it without protective gear, and there’s a time limit to how long you can stay. Fascinating stuff.
unlike any other
I think Wilhelm-7 and his fireteam discovered it first.
On my way to kick Seath’s ass.
In earth***
Just sayin….. 🌎
If I remember correctly they wanted to seal it off again as the outside air and human presence ruins the natural crystal. Also it’s uncomfortable in there due to heat.
I believe they allowed the chamber to fill with water again (it had been completely submerged when found and they stopped pumping after exploration) It was too hot and humid to be in it for more than a few minutes at a time.
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Imagine the healing power for white women down there
Didn’t think it was that big until i noticed the dudes in there. Then realized it’s huge
Who knew that the scenes from the 60s or 70s movie “Journey to the center of the earth” would become wildly true one day!!! Still love that movie, and I’m an 80s kid
DIE WORTHLESS CRYSTAL!
I heard it’s unlike any other.
It was super hot and almost 100% humidity.
In real life this cave is unlike other
Unlike any other
Rock and stone lads!
What if those two miners didn’t tell anyone and make a company and attract investment and dig it themselves?
Unlike any other so much that you labeled it twice
This is very unsettling and I don’t know why
I thought the people were spiders!!
Is the cave unlike any other? I’m fuzzy on that
Is it like any other?
Not only is it unlike any other, it’s also unlike any other
I wonder what all that would be worth if they mined it all.
Don’t let the white chicks see this.
I’m getting flashbacks to darksouls and trying to get to Seeth the dragon through the invisible path in the crystal caves 😂
Showed this to my 12 year old. She says it’s AI. I hate this world.
Largest natural crystals so far…
Resident Evil Village
The meth mother lode.
Basically a giant geode and you can WALK inside it… 😅
Let’s launch over it
—Scientists
Needs a banana for scale.
What’s the name of that other cave, the one that’s pretty much the same as this?
ROCK AND STONE
*metres
Apparently it’s a chamber that is unlike any other!
Oh man that’s unlike any other thing I’ve ever seen, nothing like other things.
Gypsum crystals people, the same stuff in the walls of your home.
Otherwise it would have been plundered years ago.
Superman’s away Crib?
Lex Luthor would never have guessed that Superman’s fortress of solitude was in Mexico…
Superman in that mfer somewhere
A super cool confluence mineral content in a fluid and temperature changes! This cave is normally flooded, they drained it for exploration and I believe its flooded again now. It was full of a supersaturated mineral solution (hotter water can carry more dissolved minerals than cold water). The same mineral concentration is fully dissolved elsewhere in the cave network, but once it flows to this cave system it cools a bit. The carrying capacity of the fluid for the dissolved minerals drops as it cools, causing a precipitation of solids. These unusually huge crystals form thanks to this quirky system