It’s a blue, blue, blue, blue, blue world! #Kyanite finally crowned champion after nine years in the Mineral Cup, including a second-place finish in #MinCup24!

I’ll call it now, #Tugtupite is going to be tough to beat in #MinCup26!

What a fun #MinCup25! Thanks again to everyone who made it so!

This is the quarterfinal I was dreading. I’m all the way in for #Perovskite after its loss to the meat rock (lower case intentional!) in the #MinCup24 finals, but reindeer blood #Tugtupite is so cool, I’m a’feared for the fate of my cubist boi. Vote #Perovskite! Vote Cubular in #MinCup25!

So here is a brief history of me being #teamcopper #teampoison #teamgreen #teamdioptase
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This one is simple. I supported it in #MinCup24 & am on board once again for Borg cube #Perovskite. It has me at “found in the rain in brown dwarf stars,” thrills me with “in volcanic fumaroles” & seals the deal with “in pipes rocketing from mantle to crust.” Be cubular. Vote Perovskite. #MinCup25

Tough, as #Topaz is my birthstone & I love it. Yet, though topaz can be blue, #Kyanite literally comes from the Greek for blue. I supported it against the Meat Rock horde all the way to the #MinCup24 finals & I’m in it to win it for kyanite for that, art use & cool anisotropic reasons in #MinCup25!

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I don’t have the brain power for this decision. Life.

Just going to stick to my #MinCup24 decision. Past me probably did more research.

Voting for #wavellite. It’s pretty.

Even Google Scholar failed to turn up fascinating fun facts.

Okenite A fine 3 cm white okenite puff ball growing on some tin of white druzy quartz crystals. Got the specimen in one of the shipments sent my by Hussein Tyebjee from Bombay. The quarries at Malad are now ...

#StarTrek is great! Tell me this isn't a #tribble gently cradled in the remains of a geode! It's adorable 😍

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I’m torn. I remember campaigning for dark & dramatic #stibnite in #MinCup24 but those fragile, fluffy, cutie-pie little newcomers of #okenite are tugging on my heart strings. I feel both calling to me. I think I’ll have to think about this one. #MinCup25

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Photo of small flat piece of Rhodochrosite, which resembles raw bacon. Rough bands of pink, light pink, light brown.

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Ok. Bought a small piece of #Rhodochrosite — the Meat Rock 😑 — last weekend at the Madison Gem and Mineral Club show. I must admit it’s a pretty mineral.

Minerals Display announced as your next LEGO Ideas set! - Jay's Brick Blog LEGO Ideas has just announced that Minerals Display has been selected as the next LEGO Ideas set! Yeah, I was as surprised as you are when I learnt about this two months ago, when I was in Denmark for...

I’m still not over rhodochrosite defeating my beloved kyanite in the #MinCup24 finals, but I am thrilled the meat rock is included in the upcoming Minerals Display Lego set, though not as much as I am that there is actually GOING TO BE a Minerals Display Lego set!

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This seems neat. Is it something #mincup24 folks would find interesting?

For those of us missing #MinCup24 here's #GuessTheGem 🧪⚒️ bsky.app/profile/ande...

Oh I didn't realize. I saw lots of #MinCup24 so I thought they worked.

I keep missing Guess the Gem. Maybe add hashtag #GuessTheGem (like #MinCup24)?

My feeds for Fujifilm photography (Fujifeed) and UrbanGeology still work great I think. But they are also set up to gather specific hashtags.

I also think feeds are still very useful, as we saw during the recent #MinCup24. Yet, I get the feeling many new people joining don't really know about it.

Did you love MinCup? But did you feel like there was a missing mineral? You can help fix that for next year:

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Meme uses characters from Friends to poke fun at Google throwing up “Crystal healing!” when asked “show me scientific data about minerals.”

A timely meme for my recent experience during #MinCup24. Google is flooded with so much crystal healing garbage as top hits now. #misinformation #geology

Now that #MinCup24 is over, I wish #RockExchange would make a comeback... ⚒️ 🧪 🪨

Another super fun round with exciting finishes and a few heartbreaks (for me anyway) in #MinCup24

Thanks to everyone on the @mineralcup.bsky.social team!

Hey y’all, if you enjoyed playing #MinCup24, thank the organizers—even if your fave didn’t win, they work hard to bring us the September-brightening, voting competition of mineral education that we all love!!

Darths & Droids

oh my word, strange coincidences abound...

Darths and Droids namedrops Meat Rock on the same week Meat Rock takes out #MinCup24

What are the chances???

Champion Rhodochrosite — Mineral Cup

I was out of town for a bit - but YOU BEAUTIFUL MANIACS

you did it!

MEAT ROCK! [blows kisses to everyone]

Rhodochrosite is #MinCup24 Champion!

Now all the excitement from #MinCup24 is beginning to die down, how about a new thing to get excited about. #RiverCup24 looks like I'm going to discover more cool new things!

This year, #MeatRock!
Next year, #PoopSparkle! (name still in development).

#Amminiete (defeated by Dioptase in Round 1 this year) is a vitreous blue mineral that forms in guano deposits.

And here's where things really get (historically) interesting...

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Perfect way to start the celebration!

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Nominate Minerals — Mineral Cup

Thinking about next year’s minerals? We are too! Nominate them now!
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And the winner is…. #MinCup24

As we close out another MinCup, thank you to the entire MinCup team. I’m sure there is a lot of work we don’t see.

And while my corundum didn’t take the title this year, congratulations to Rhodochrosite on a fine tournament. #MinCup24

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