But wait...
This is NOT another post about Naica's crystal cave in Mexico. I've already posted a few of those.
This post is about the Pulpí Geode, supposedly the world's largest geode, found near the town of Pulpí, Spain.
The crystals are - like those in Naica's cave - gypsum, and they're admittedly not as large as those in Naica's cave. In the above video, they refer to the Naica crystals as being up to 15m in length and those in the Pulpí Geode as being up to 2m in length. In the video, however, they state - without much explanation - that the Pulpí Geode is a geode - a cavity in rock completely covered with crystals - and the Naica cave as not a geode.
I don't know if that means the Naica cave just has some un-covered surfaces or what, but the video above doesn't go into that detail, admittedly.
But this cave is available for people to walk through - for now, anyway - whereas Naica is flooded again. You just need to get to Pulpí.
Check out more about the Pulpí Geode...
- Spain's crystal cave, the giant gypsum geode of Pulpí
- These human-sized crystals formed in especially strange ways (requires registration - but you can use a made-up email address as of 8/14/22)
- The world's largest crystal cave
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