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If you happen to find yourself in a mine in southern Chihuahua Mexico, in the company of “the largest crystals on Earth,” stifle the urge to scream “Clark!” and avoid pressng random crystal buttons and expecting Marlon Brando’s face to appear and begin reading his Jor-el cue cards. Mine curators are a pretty fidgety bunch, and they might feel it necessary to shoot you with their stun guns imported direct from planet Krypton.

Author/photographer Richard Fisher seriously explains:

This is a geode full of spectacular crystals as tall as pine trees, and in some cases greater in circumference. They have formed beautiful crystals that are a translucent gold and silver in color, and come in many incredible forms and shapes. Some of the largest are essentially columnar in shape and stand thirty to fifty feet high and three to four feet in diameter. Many of the smaller examples are four to six feet in circumference, have many incredible geometrical shapes, and probably weigh in excess of ten tons. The columnar pillars are at first the most striking shape, but later I noticed there were thousands of “sharks teeth” up to three feet high placed row upon row and dispersed at odd angles throughout the caverns. While some of the crystals are attached to the ceiling walls and floors of the cave as might be expected, some exist in great masses of spikes and almost float in air. These crystals seem to defy gravity, as they must weigh several tons.

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