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Underwater caves in Mexico preserve one of the world’s oldest ochre mines

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Michael PriceCrouching as she wound her way through a pinched underground corridor, a young woman grasped a torch in one hand, soot blackening the craggy ceiling above her.

Guided by stacks of stones deeper and deeper in the darkness of the cave, she finally spied her prize: a blood-red vein of rock in the fire-lit wall.

It would be 10,000 years before another pair of eyes saw it again.Now the blood-red rock—a treasured crimson mineral known as ochre—has been found again, by underwater divers who were the first people in tens of centuries to return to these now-submerged caves.

Scientists have confirmed that the site, now part of a coastal cave system in Quintana Roo, Mexico, is one of the Western hemisphere’s oldest known ochre mining.

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