Underground flask Roughly 26 million years ago, a mound of magma strained upward through the earth beneath southeastern Chihuahua, Mexico. This rising magma created what is now a mountain near the ...

The Cave of the Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet beneath the Sierra de Naica Mountain. It was first discovered in 2000 after water was pumped out for mining.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico – Imagine stumbling upon giant crystals, over three feet in diameter, resembling massive swords measuring up to 36 feet long filling a cave.

In January 2006 Speleoresearch & Films and the Team la Venta started a three year exploration campain to discover the Naica cave, Chihuahua, Messico. "It seems like walking into an oven. You're hit by ...

The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains giant gypsum crystal beams that are up to 37 feet (11 m) long.

Nearly 1,000ft below the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico, this cave was discovered by two brothers drilling in the Naica lead and silver mine. It is an eerie sight.

Miners discovered spectacular crystals in the Naica Mine below Chihuahua, Mexico, about a century ago. Since then, they’ve become a source of fascination for geologists, who have scoured the hot ...

The tallest of the cave’s crystals, one of the largest in the world, weighs a whopping 12 tonnes (13.2 tons) and stands 1 meter (3.2 feet) wide and 11.4 meters (37.4 feet) tall – that’s six ...

In a cave below a mountain in the Naica mine of Chihuahua, Mexico, gypsum crystals have grown as big as trees. But researchers now report that loss of water may damage the crystal surfaces (Cryst ...

February 18, 2017 at 1:55 pm - More than 2 years ago BOSTON — Microbes found stowed inside giant crystals in caves in Chihuahua, Mexico, may have survived there for tens of thousands of years.