MEXICO CITY, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Mexican mining company Penoles said on Tuesday it had suspended operations at its lead, zinc and silver-producing Naica mine in the north of the country, delivering ...

A cave in Naica, Mexico has crystals growing that are the size of trees. Yes, really. This is the travel destination of our dreams.

Amazing Underworld (Image credit: Penelope Boston / New Mexico Tech) Mike Spilde, a professor at the University of New Mexico, gazes at giant selenite crystals in a chamber in the Naica Mine.

Today, the Naica Mine is no longer active, and water has again filled the crystal cavern. Boston and her colleagues took two trips to the mine, in 2008 and 2009, before the cave was flooded.

MEXICO CITY, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Mexican miner Industrias Penoles said on Monday it had suspended operations at its Naica lead, zinc and silver mine after it flooded last week.

A geologist explores the caves of giant crystals inside the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico. Discovered by two miners looking for lead in 2001, these amazing crystal-lined caves could be mistaken ...

In April 2000, workers at the Naica Mines discovered a cave containing some of the largest crystals ever found. The Giant Crystal Cave, with crystals up to 39 feet long and weighing up to 55 tons ...

In January 2006 Speleoresearch & Films and the Team la Venta started a three year exploration campain to discover the Naica cave, Chihuahua, Messico.

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A team of scientists recently extracted microbes that were trapped in the crystals of Mexico's Naica Mine for thousands of years.

Output at Naica, which Penoles called Mexico's second-richest lead mine, had been halted "for an undefined period" due to force majeure after serious flooding, the company said.