Pulpí Geode

The Pulpí Geode is a giant geode found in Spain near the town of Pulpí in December 1999, by Javier Garcia-Guinea of the Grupo Mineralogista de Madrid. This geode is one of the largest documented geodes in the world to date. It occupies a space of 10.7 cubic metres, measuring 8 by 1.8 metres with an average height of 1.7 metres, and is located at a depth of 50 metres in the Pilar de Jaravía mine, in the Sierra del Aguilón, in the municipality of Pulpí, 3 kilometres from the coast.