The Mega Crystals of Naica Mine: Big Pics

Discovery ^ | 2/15/10 | n/a

[DemforBush]

Nestling up to a cauldron of pressurized, molten rock is almost never a good idea. But in Mexico's Naica mine, the payoff is worth the risk.

About 900 feet below the surface, there is a chamber filled with gypsum. It's the same stuff that goes in the drywall in your house, only in Naica it spent half a million years parboiling in a chamber filled with magma-heated water.

Suddenly miners showed up and started pumping the mineral-rich broth out to get at valuable silver and lead deposits nearby. The result is a cavern filled with crystals 36 feet long and weighing in at up to 55 tons, easily the largest in the world....

[DemforBush]

[Vaquero]

saw this on a science show....very impressive.

[henkster]

If that’s drywall, then that room was done by a drywaller on acid!

[mattdono]

Me too.

It’s like 115 degrees in crystal room and the scientists can only be in there for x amount of time or they’ll die.

Pretty nutty.

[Red_Devil 232]

Wow! Thanks for the thread!

[Waverunner]

The space crystals have found an incubation chamber.

[absolootezer0]

superman’s southern retreat?

[FrankR]

Hey, maybe these are the famed "Dilithium Crystals" and they will solve all of our energy power for the next thousand years.

"I've got to have more power, Scottie!"

"But Captain, 'um trrrrring as hard as uh kahn.".

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

[Parley Baer]

What I found intersting at the link was a story on the New Mexico weather cave and reading the comments at the end of the story.

[hot4plasma]

Fun with a machine gun for sure!!!!

[RikaStrom]

wow

[SouthTexas]

Better hope the speed freaks don’t find out about this.

[potlatch]

Amazing crystal caverns in southern Chihuahua Mexico.

http://www.canyonsworldwide.com/crystals/mainframe3.html

Kept locked from the public. There are those who believe crystals have ‘powers’ and can help healing. Lol, I could see a cave like this turned into a ‘healing chamber’.

[colorado tanker]

An oldie but goodie.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

They found Superman's Fortress of Solitude

[SeaDragon]

Definitely!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ct, those are some big-ass crystals.

[Redcitizen]

Amazing. This reminded me of that book, “Journey to the center of the earth”

[Neidermeyer]

It Wasn't Me! Mine are Bluish.