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Nearly 1,000ft below the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico, a gigantic cave was discovered by two brothers drilling in the Naica lead and silver mine in 2007-2008. It was an eerie sight. Obelisks shaped crystals up to 37 feet (11 meter) in length and the equivalent height of six men jutted out from the damp rock walls, and there were hundreds of blade-sharp crystals.



Geologist Juan Manuel García-Ruiz calls it "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," but Superman could call it home.
A sort of south-of-the-border Fortress of Solitude, Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) contains some of the world's largest known natural crystals—translucent beams of gypsum as long as 36 feet (11 meters).




How did the crystals reach such superheroic proportions?

In the new issue of the journal Geology, García-Ruiz reports that for millennia the crystals thrived in the cave's extremely rare and stable natural environment. Temperatures hovered consistently around a steamy 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius), and the cave was filled with mineral-rich water that drove the crystals' growth.
Modern-day mining operations exposed the natural wonder by pumping water out of the 30-by-90-foot (10-by-30-meter) cave, which was found in 2000 near the town of Delicias (Chihuahua state map). Now García-Ruiz is advising the mining company to preserve the caves.





Narrated by: Chuck Klausmeyer

Directed by: Gary Lang






Title................: Giant Crystal Cave
Year.................: 2008
Genre................: Documentary
Video Length.........: 00:45:48

Audio Bitrate........: 192 kbit/s
Audio Codec..........: (AC3)
Language.............: English
Display Aspect ratio.: 3:2

Video Codec..........: XviD
Video Resolution.....: 720x480
VIdeo Bitrate........: 1933 kbit/s
Subs.................: (N/A)

File Size:...........: 633 MB
FPS..................: 29.970000
Channel(s)...........: 2 channels
Release date.........: 2008





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