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In 2000, silver miners in Mexico accidentally drilled into a 300-meter-deep crystal fortress that looks like a scene from another planet

Miners in Chihuahua’s Naica Mine discovered a massive cave filled with colossal, white gypsum crystals, some reaching 12 meters in length. This natural wonder, a result of hundreds of thousands of years of growth in extreme heat and humidity, also preserved ancient microorganisms. The cave, now flooded again after pumps were turned off in 2015, […]