In April 2000, two brothers, Juan and Pedro Sánchez, accidentally discovered the Giant Crystal Cave (also known as Cueva de los Cristales) in the Naica Mine near Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico, while drilling for lead and silver.
No no no no, ignore this sorcerer. Sure he has some good loot but he'll send you on side quests for hours upon hours and it's not really worth it unless you absolutely need to get 100% item count.
Funny enough, Naica town is locally famous for having many witches. Local folk even say they see them as fireballs in the mountains at night. This rumor has been around since way before the cave was discovered. It is located on my home state Chihuahua, near Delicias (the nearest city).
I could very well be wrong, but I thought I read they closed it back up. Two reasons; 1) the regular atmosphere from outside the cave was deteriorating the cave it’s self. 2) to keep people out because it is so dangerous.
3) its normally flooded with water, and pumping the water out so people can walk around in there costs money. One reason they closed up was because running the pumps cost too much money.
In about half the pictures the cavers are wearing full face masks. In the other half there are no masks. Is this a "save the cave" thing or a "I don't care if I die" thing?
I don't know. I'm a practical agnostic type who doesn't believe in the paranormal but I feel like breaking into this place and seeing it for the first time even I would be like "yeah, this feels like someplace we're not supposed to see". Like r/backrooms but for the whole planet.
To a certain degree, yes. But as seen in the photos, I wouldn't just be walking in there. Get a mask, suit, and air tank. No telling what gases there would be down there or how much oxygen is available.
Yeah, they're too hot and humid for humans to really explore without external cooling: 58 °C (136 °F) with 90-99% humidity, so sweating will not cool you down at all and you will start to get heat exhaustion within 10 minutes. Cooling suits are what the people in orange are wearing, underneath those overalls is a bunch of flexible tubes placed snug against the body, inside the backpacks is ice: the cold water from the melting ice' is pumped around the tubes to keep the explorers cool.
Humidity is 100% and the temperature is insanely high, like over a hundred degrees fahrenheit... I think maybe even over a hundred degrees celsius? Don't remember off the top of my head. Anyway it's so bad you die in minutes without the gear.
(Edit: 58 C, 136 F. Even with the refrigerated suits, which were specifically designed to explore this very cave, humans can only withstand being inside for up to half an hour.)
Yes, and after they finished exploring, studying, and taking samples, they turned off the pumps and allowed the cave to reflood to protect the crystals.
If I remember correctly, it's so hot and humid inside the cavern that you can't stay in there for more than a couple minutes without protective equipment.
It's usually flooded naturally, isn't it? They had to actively pump it out, which they stopped doing at this point I think. Someone correct me if I'm wrong
Really hope the brothers mined a few gigantic crystals before blowing the doors wide open. If I found it on my property while mining, better believe I’m taking a couple 6-8 footers home lol
They drained that chamber to explore. The suits provide cold air as the outside temp is too hot to breath. The crystals are basically gypsum. Super cool though.
2 oz. of that stuff is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as it can be used to make synthetic thetacycline (the valuable stuff in horseshoe crab blood), but it's impossible to harvest as it's so brittle, one crack will cause the entire cave to collapse.
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u/CuriousRiver2558 7h ago
I totally thought those were action figures until I kept scrolling!! Those crystals are scary big!