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The Cave Where Crystals Grew as Long as a School Bus

In April 2000, miners in northern Mexico broke into a room full of crystals as long as a school bus. This is the story of the Cave of the Crystals at Naica: an ordinary mineral, hot water held just under a tipping point, and potentially hundreds of thousands of years in which almost nothing happens.

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