Shortly after its close in the 1960s, a mine in Tennyson, Wis., flooded with groundwater. Recently, scuba divers exploring the mine’s spooky depths spotted unusual, spongy red masses. The red slime, it turns out, contains the first evidence of a type of crystal formation seen previously only in laboratories.
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