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Hopefully, it is NOT "used" for anything, though some Asian caves have been robbed of stalactites for sale as ornaments! (One show-cave, has rightly lost its World Heritage Site listing as a result of this ignorant vandalism.)

Stalactites & stalagmites are to be left clean and intact, to be admired by tourists in show-caves and cavers in any caves.

In UK caves designated as "Sites of Special Scientific Interest", wilful breaking or removal of formations, except perhaps in a very limited, controlled way for genuine research, is illegal.

The English poet Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) destroyed a large amount of stalactites in Wookey Hole by engaging local soldiers to shoot them off the cave roof to use as ornaments in his artificial grotto - a popular feature among the well-off trendies of his time. The yield of useable formations among the resulting calcite rubble must have been very small.

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