File:Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico (ASTER).jpg

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The Naica mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, with its enormous gypsum crystals, may well be called the «Queen of the Giant Crystals localities».

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English: The Naica mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, with its enormous gypsum crystals, may well be called the «Queen of the Giant Crystals localities». Though the Naica mine is no show mine, but still a working lead-zinc mine hosted in layered limestones, the first of several crystal caves was discovered in 1910. This «Cave of the Swords» contained extraordinary large sword-like selenite (gypsum) crystals up to 2 m long. In 2000 another crystal cave system was discovered at 300 m depth, even more spectacular than the original cave. Inside were free growing gypsum crystals up to 12 m long and 2 m in diameter. The ASTER image uses SWIR bands 4, 6, and 8 in RGB. Limestone is displayed in yellow-green colors, vegetation is red. The image was acquired February 16, 2004, covers an area of 26 x 23.5 km, and is located near 27.8 degrees north latitude, 105.5 degrees west longitude. The photo of crystals was taken from: https://www.thatcrystalsite.com.

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Taken on 16 February 2004

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Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico (direct link)

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Object location	27° 48′ 00″ N, 105° 30′ 00″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	27.800000; -105.500000

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