Don't mind me, just making some #MinCup nominations while I read...
www.mineralcup.org/nominations
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@mineralcup.bsky.social adjacent! The blue is so pretty, but all those rocks!
⚒️🧪
#MinCup
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Should do a fossorial mammal lineup & crossover with #MinCup, we can get #RockCarnage too.
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#MinCup has never been described quite like that before.
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More #MinCup, less crystal shit
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I think single location and single instance minerals should comprise #mincup one of these years.
Also, this is super cool.:
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But not behind #mincup
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A Lego representation of the mineral rhodochrosite sitting on a brown wooden stand, also made of Lego. The rhodochrosite is semi-translucent red cubes jumbled together on a bed of black Lego with small spurs of clear secondary minerals.
An actual specimen of rhodochrosite. It is formed of semitranslucent red crystals in a cubic shape. The cubes grow off one another and intersect at odd angles.
The fifth specimen is rhodochrosite---the famed "meat rock" of #MinCup 2023.
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permissive, and it's their word more than mine.
The #mincup competition for Best Mineral is held every September and is great fun if you don't get too emotionally attached to your chosen mineral.
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Could be limonite (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonite). It offen forms these kinds of bubbly surfaces.
I'll repost to engage more geoscoentists ☺️. Hey #MinCup bubble, what do you think? ⚒️
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I know #chemsky was dabbling in the #mincup @mineralcup.bsky.social . Now we have our own bracket. Vote for your favorite chempics!
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#Copper
Learning about Old Copper Culture in North America ca. 4000-1500 BC. I should know about this — born and living in Wisconsin — but apparently not covered in grade school or high school history classes.
So THANKS! #MinCup #OreCup #OreCup25
www.mpm.edu/research-col...
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Vote for Molybdenite
1. So many Copper ores in the Ore Cup!
2. Molybdenite is SO Beautiful, esp. in polished section.
3. Its the source for the very rare Element Rhenium
#MinCup #OreCup #Geology ⚒️
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You’ve heard of the #MinCup — now get ready for the #OreCup, which starts today! Our first pick is #copper, which humans have been mining, using, and discarding for thousands of years: eos.org/articles/500...
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If you thought Mineral Cup Month would have been better if they just skipped the first two rounds and went straight to the quarter-finals you will probably enjoy its spin-off Ore Cup.
Same if you thought MinCup was great fun and you wish there was more.
#OreCup #MinCup
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For once I have both mins in my collection! (Ignore the fur-covered cat tree.)
1/3 of my cats posed for photos. They all received treats after the grueling sitting next to a mineral. Copper-hued Hugs is MVP, Obsidian sort of posed, and Leia did her own thing.
#OreCup #MinCup #Copper
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Pennsylvania copper from Adams County. On the left is a polished orb, on the right is dendritic copper.
Dancing llama dendritic copper from Houghton County, Michigan.
Crystalline copper ball within white mineral cavity.
Copper with squiggly branches from a mass, there is some color variation from fresh orange and red to slightly tarnished green.
Michigan has historically been a source for beautiful, and useful, #copper. Specifically, the Upper Peninsula contains the largest native copper deposits!
Copper from Carnegie Natural History and Cranbrook Institute.
Vote copper for Michigan!
#OreCup #MinCup
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Are there multiple levels of heaven like those in hell? Bc I'm pretty sure the #MinCup team have ascended Beyond with this 😭 #OreCup
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Looking to fill that post- #MinCup need to learn facts about this orb we ride through space?
October is Spooky Lake month, 31 days of haunted hydrology!
Daily videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DPPa1Un... and TikTok: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A8YmR2/
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For anyone else who feels weird to not be hyping up a mineral today after a month of #MinCup, here's an excellent outlet.
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Darn it! I missed #MinCup this year because I haven't been active on Mastodon, where I had been participating.
I take some small comfort that your banner shows rhodochrosite, my son's favorite mineral. 😁
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About time that #Kyanite joined the exalted ranks of #MinCup champions! Well done #TeamKyanite, thank you all for voting. #MinCup25
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Congratz for the only second blue mineral to win #MinCup!
This year was all on blue, with strong contenders like azurite and haüyne sadly being eliminated one by one. But Kyanite withstood and thrived under the pressure - as it's its nature.
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Volunteering is so worth it (although I did not have as much time as I would have liked this year). #MinCup behind the scenes is so much more exciting 😍
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Potentially of interest to fans of #MinCup:
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