Once the water was pumped out, the cave began to dry and cool, threatening the delicate balance that allowed the crystals to ...

As such, they are believed to be the purest form of selenite crystal in the world. The Cave of the Crystals, or Cueva de los cristales, as it was dubbed, is a horseshoe-shaped chamber roughly 358 ...

The cave contains some of the largest natural ... of years have been deposited in the caves in the form of huge selenite gypsum crystals. "There is no limit to the size a crystal can reach ...

Mexico's Cave of Crystals stunned geologists when it was first discovered in 2000. The underground chamber contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found - some of the selenite structures ...

In the Naica Mine's Cave of the Crystals, selenite crystals have grown as long as 36 meters (11 feet). After thirty minutes in the Cave of Crystals, researchers had to chug electrolyte beverages ...

The cave contains some of the largest natural ... of years have been deposited in the caves in the form of huge selenite gypsum crystals. "There is no limit to the size a crystal can reach ...

The Cave of Crystals, as it became named ... colorless variety known as selenite, came to be the dominant mineral in the caves. “Each mineral has a stability zone,” explains Alexander Van ...

Previously, the world’s largest examples of selenite crystals came from a nearby cavern discovered in 1910 within the same Naica cave complex. Several examples from the Cave of Swords are ...

Discovered in the year 2000, the Cave of Crystals sits some 300 meters (984 feet) below the surface of the Sierra de Naica Mountain in Chihuahua, Mexico. Home to some of the largest known crystals ...

Anchored to the walls of the blistering hot cave that is as deadly as it is ... causing the gypsum in the water to transform into selenite crystals. The lethal translucent beams now measure ...