I'm voting for #Cuprosklodowskite for the same reason as last time. It looks like a hazard in a video game. Come to think of it, since my poor sweet #Paddlewheelite fell, I'm #TEAMCuprosklodowskite!!!
(Picture stolen from the voting page)
Something is fishy here. #Mannardite votes are not being counted (or not being reported, more likely), and the Results summary page says the vote is between #Cuprosklodowskite and #paddlewheelite. Maybe my vote for mannardite is read as a vote for paddlewheelite? I told the #MinCup25 admins.
The error is probably related to this: #Mannardite is not in the Game but the looser #Paddlewheelite is. That is why there are no votes counted for Mannardite. I hope it's easy to recover them.
R2 M8 #Cuprosklodowskite vs #Paddlewheelite starts at 00:00 UTC 24/09/2025
That’s about 4.5 hours from now
#Paddlewheelite tapte med én stemme og det var sikkert fordi ikke mange nok folk så denne her!
this year it turns out that #paddlewheelite was the second most popular guess, after #perovskite. Probably some sort of lesson in that, but I'm not going to try to figure out what it is. 2/2
Holy shamoley! 1,419 votes were cast and #Mannardite the Dark wins by one vote over #Paddlewheelite to close out Round One of #MinCup25. #EveryVoteCounts
With less than one hour to go, it’s still incredibly close in this final match of Round 1 of #MinCup25
Who will get your vote and make it through to Round 2?
#paddlewheelite or #mannardite.
The results page showing Paddlewheelite has 574 votes and Mannardite has 573.
We're winning! 🥳
Has everyone voted? #Paddlewheelite needs your support!
In #Paddlewheelite versus #Mannardite, it's currently a one-vote lead for the former with 1.5 hours to go. If you have opinions, go vote! There's no calling this one. #MinCup25
UPDATE: With two hours to go in the match, #Mannardite has a two vote lead over #Paddlewheelite after 1,124 votes have been cast. This one is nip-and-tuck! #MinCup25.
If you haven’t yet, vote here: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
I voted #paddlewheelite today because the name is more fun. I don’t have a better reason. #MinCup25
Last match of the first round & #MinCup25 is bringing the drama! Four-and-a-half hours to go & we are all tied up! After leaning towards #Paddlewheelite, the radioactive delight from Czechia, I’m instead going with #Mannardite, the jet black entry telling tales of Earth’s earliest Hadean crust!
My vote for #Paddlewheelite with, well, paddle-wheel clusters in the structure.
Also, it is coming for Jáchymov, Czech Republic. Never heard about this place? But in fact, you know it, because of the guy named Gustav Kroupa.
Still not clue?
Okay, next step to help:
🧵1/2
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How is it that #paddlewheelite is behind by two votes with five hours to go? COME ON, PEOPLE. Vote!
www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Going hard for #paddlewheelite because that name is top notch.
Thin green platelettes of paddlewheelite coating chalcopyrite and andersonite. Horizontal field of view is 2 mm. Photo by Stephan Wolfsried
Green tabular crystal of paddlewheelite in a cavity of dolomite and chalcopyrite.
Image depicting paddlewheelite's distinctive cage structure. Courtesy of Travis Olds.
Rare #Paddlewheelite is a secondary oxidation product of uraninite. The conditions leading to its crystallization are complex, likely requiring concomitant dissolution of uraninite, calcite, dolomite, chalcopyrite, & andersonite. Paddlewheelite is named after its distinctive structure, pic below.
Last round of #MinCup25 round 1
#R1M16 is a giant battle of the very small.
Uranium secondary #paddlewheelite versus a barium-titanium-vanadanite oxide that is common enough in black shale, but when found in quartz is uncommonly pretty.
See more information below.
With just under 8 hours to go, does #MinCup25 get the glow-up with green radioactive #Paddlewheelite or go Goth with dark black #Mannardite? Right now, the race is pretty much neck-and-neck. I’m leaning towards one, but still need some convincing before I vote.
www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Polls of the Match from MinCup Homepage
Uuuh. This is a tight margin: #Paddlewheelite is in the lead by only 18 votes! This is the last match of round 1. Which mineral will prevail?
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The rabbit holes of research help make #MinCup25 so fun. #Paddlewheelite was discovered in the Svornost (“Concord”) uranium mine in Jáchymov, Czechia. The mine now is a spa that specializes in radon radiation water/steam treatments. Make of that what you will.
www.montanregion.cz/en/montanreg...
#MinCup25 Cool structure, fun name, pretty color, and it's a Uranium mineral? #paddlewheelite should win 100%
The day has come! #paddlewheelite is going all the way, people!!
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#MinCup25 mineralogists and geochemists and similar …
Please help!
If I found a rock containing #Paddlewheelite or a rock containing #Mannardite what would it tell me about the formation, age, or transformation of the rock?
I need more than aesthetics here, and Google Scholar isn’t helping.
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 16: ❇️ #Paddlewheelite vs ◼️ #mannardite. An unusually complex carbonate vs a mineral sometimes mined as a vanadium ore.
#minerals #mineralogy
#TeamGreen vote #paddlewheelite for #MinCup25
💖 I'm in the same boat! I think I'm supposed to pitch for #mannardite, but it's really just a guess based on the kinds of things Omen likes about most minerals.
I also think the name, structure, and color of #paddlewheelite are really cute, plus this catalogue number is "haha nice".
I like both...
Sorry, #mannardite, but how could I not vote for a mineral named #paddlewheelite? #MinCup25
#paddlewheelite has such a cute name. But then I saw this imagine www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi... and I knew which one to chose as the decision between cute name and cute mineral is easily decided 🕷️ Team #Mannardite it is.
My love of silly names and green things wants me to vote for #Paddlewheelite. My inner cybergoth wants me to vote for #Mannardite. Who should I vote for #MinSoc25 fam.
