earthdog
Cave Dweller
Don't eat yellow snow
Member since June 2006
Posts: 2,731
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Post by earthdog on Feb 17, 2010 11:04:58 GMT -5
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Post by rockrookie on Feb 17, 2010 11:11:18 GMT -5
wow !! that's incredible ! ---paul
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Post by NatureNut on Feb 17, 2010 11:12:54 GMT -5
Wow... cool.
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 17, 2010 11:28:09 GMT -5
man id love to see that in person should be one of the wonders of the world
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Post by NatureNut on Feb 17, 2010 11:48:37 GMT -5
I just watched the video. The cost of pumping water out of the cave is over a half million a month. The water temp is over a hundred degrees and help irrigate the town and has made it green. Visitors can only spend 10 minutes in the cave to prevent heat exhaustion in the 115 degree F temp in the cave. Seems a shame that when all the silver and lead are exhausted from the cave the company will stop paying for pumping out the mineral water, but the crystals will start growing again.
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Post by Toad on Feb 17, 2010 16:31:51 GMT -5
Very neat. Who has a saw to slab those puppies?
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Post by catmandewe on Feb 18, 2010 1:05:01 GMT -5
Those are pretty soft, you could easily cut them with grit and a wire, kind of like they think the ancient Egyptians cut those big blocks for the pyramids.
Very cool crystals!
Tony
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