#OreCup #copper is one of only two coloured metals ⚒️🧪 The iconic reddish color is due to a peculiarity in the transition of electrons between the 3d and 4s orbitals causing absorption of blue and green wavelengths and reflecting red/orange wavelengths. Also makes it a great electrical conductor.

No flashy specimen pictures, just minerals by the billion - voting for #ilmenite in the ⚒️🧪 Ore Cup because it contributes to the awesome black sand beaches of #NewZealand 🇳🇿 . (PSA from personal experience: *always* bring footwear on a hot summer's day...) buff.ly/ez1xDOJ

Always a big ⚒️🧪 fan of #copper. We use it for vacuum gaskets which we then give away to visiting school groups - they find it fascinating because although copper is everywhere it's rare to actually *see* it. There's probably a kilo or so of copper in your immediate vicinity.

It’s almost time! We’re excited. You excited? Monday 00:00 GMT. 24 hours a match. This is going to be FAST

Did dinosaurs sneeze? ⚒️🧪 www.facebook.com/share/p/19ja...

S**t, did we forget to put mithril on the list of ⚒️🧪 critical minerals?! buff.ly/122Ziq7

A great way to click together ⚒️🧪 #EarthScienceWeek2025 with a Lego speed build competition using the new 'Minerals' set of quartz, amethyst, tourmaline, pyrite, fluorite, and rhodochrosite. Pictures don't do them justice, they are quite spectacular in person. Alas, no #zircon - maybe in Set 2?

⚒️🧪 Great ShakeOut! Earthquake safety is not common knowledge in Australia where quakes are infrequent, but still potentially deadly. After a hefty M5.9 quake in 2021 that reached the Melbourne CBD, it was found only 3% knew what to do in a quake. Find out now! buff.ly/PNGYgTa #EarthScienceWeek2025

For #EarthScienceWeek2025: what 3 steps got you into ⚒️🧪 Earth Science? 1. A wood box full of rocks and crystals that my Dad had collected in his travels 2. David Attenbourgh's 'Life on Earth' 3. Couldn't make up my mind choosing a science major, so I did the (earth) science that does them all!

It's ⚒️🧪 #EarthScienceWeek2025 ! Here's a new product from the awesome Geoscience Australia Education and Outreach team: a Year 8-10 classroom activity exploring critical minerals in Australia and their value through the lens of topographic data and the geology of Australia. buff.ly/Y8v46nt

The greatest advance of the 21st century has been inflight WiFi because it has enabled having live geological maps on hand to more thoroughly investigate the ⚒️🧪 geology you are flying over. Window seats forever!

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci ⁠ Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

I forgot to say, for more Mineral Cup fun, pin the feed below, & use the #MinCup25 hashtag when posting. There are no wrong answers, just lots of fun, & sometimes you learn something cool! Join us! See the comment for the vote link. #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

... and winner of #MinCup 2023. Just saying... 😁

This is an excellent piece of ⚒️🧪 work, and will be a deep rabbit hole to explore. Already learnt: that 'analysis' is plural and 'analysin' is the singular; that Captain Cook introduced the word lagoon into English; and the term 'mantle' for the layer below the crust didn't appear until the 1940's.

Vote #Stibnite (Sb₂S₃) for #Mincup25 ⚒️🧪 because it was the likely source of antimony that literally wrote history. The chemical symbol for antimony is ‘Sb’ from ‘stibium’ the Latin for, you guessed it, #stibnite. Let's revisit a 🧵 from last year /1 buff.ly/md0dreE

We're hiring Three year postdoc on geochemistry and petrology of ore-forming systems. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

⚒️🧪 #Mincup25 begins! Let's start with a PSA: • Please don't take a handful of fluffy stuff into a laboratory to ask for a microscope to see if it is asbestos. That tends to get people excited for all the wrong reasons. True story. • Vote #pectolite because it isn't trying to kill you.

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Check RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

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This ⚒️🧪 repository looks amazing! I am especially geeking out over the continental rift animation s-ink.org/continental-... Thanks for the link @callanbentley.bsky.social !

Only two weeks to go until Spetember. Best time of the year on social media since #MinCup25 is about to start! Have ideas for minerals to compete in #MinCup2025? Nominate them now! 👉 www.mineralcup.org/nominations Want to be part of this year’s organizing team? 👉 www.mineralcup.org/volunteer

Want to know more about #GeoscienceAustralia 's multi-generational initiative Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity to better understand the ⚒️🧪 geology and 💧 hydrology of Australia to support our net zero transition? Sign up for the 26 August seminar and Q&A here!

Ideas for minerals to compete in #MinCup2025? Nominate them now! www.mineralcup.org/nominations Want to be part of this year’s organizing team? We love volunteers! www.mineralcup.org/volunteer

Meanwhile, back in 🇦🇺 Australia... another addition to the already chonky list of Things That Will F**k You Up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I remember these from ⚒️🧪 field work on the tundra north of Yellowknife. A yummy treat on long traverses. I was conscious that these are a major and time-restricted food source for many creatures including bears, but we had lost a cantaloupe to a bear 'visiting' our camp so I considered it a trade...

1/28 New thread ! This time we discuss the connections between my various passions: palaeontology, archaeology, and history, or how ancient civilizations (Pharaonic Egypt, Ancient Greece, and the Roman period) dealt with fossils and extinct animal bones #Paleosky ⚒️🧪🏺

Hello, I'm a Lab Manager in a film. The lab has glass walls and blue LED lighting everywhere. The world-class security system can be bypassed with chewing gum. A mass spectrometer can be installed and produce results by the afternoon. In a moment of distraction, something in the Lab will kill me. ⚒️🧪

For any ⚒️🧪 fans in Canberra 🇦🇺 on 8 and 15 August for #NationalScienceWeek... a rare opportunity to see the geological foundations of Parliament House! parliamenthouse.respax.com/public/aph/t...

Updated geoscience ⚒️🧪 educational resources from the awesome Education Team at #GeoscienceAustralia - including links to a digital exhibit about the Ice Age land bridge between mainland Australia and Tasmania plus a professional development STEM Summer School in 2026.

💯 This is also an ⚒️🧪 observation picked up in the classic Amoeba People song 'The Geologists Are Coming!': 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 "𝐺" 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐹𝑜𝑟 9 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 10 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒

What a great ⚒️🧪 tool - my 🎂 birthquake is a chunky M6 just of Kyushu. What is yours?

An exciting ⚒️🧪 research opportunity...

International Rock Day ⚒️🧪 picture: Concretions on Ward Beach in the northeastern South Island, New Zealand 🇳🇿. These rocks are late, late Cretaceous rocks and the famous K-T boundary is nearby.

And we could tell you the ore body that the iron came from... ⚒️🧪

It's such an Australian 🇦🇺 thing to flex about how deadly the snakes are in a First Aid training course... 😬

💯 This is a cool geospatial application! ⚒️🧪 I wonder what other comparisons are possible? How far are seismologists from locations of M7 earthquakes? How far are geophysicists from a fundamental gravity network node? How far are economic geologists from an operating mine?

Rutile is also an awesome geochronometer because it can record both temperature and time. With high Pb closure temperatures and temperature sensitivity to Zr, rutile helps decode metamorphic thermal histories that other minerals miss. 🧪⚒️⌛

No apologies needed. All is as it should be. 💯 ⚒️🧪

No apologies

Geology always wins... ⚒️🧪

As a child I excitingly heard this on the news (astronomy was my huge interest at the time 🧪🌙⚒️). But I then baffled my poor mother by immediately plummeting into tearful despair that "they would discover all the planets before I grew up to find my own". Happy to be proven wrong! 😁

Another Red Wing is in the books! My geology clubbers and I ran two outreach events at this 3 day Roots music festival and spread understanding about Virginia geology! ⚒️

And now the Winter #Solstice from the same location ⚒️🧪🌏 A noticeable lack of celebrants due to an effective demonstration of seasonal change with a brisk minus 6°C air temperature... 🥶

And because coincidences... today I saw some archived ⚒️🧪rock samples from Antarctica collected from a glacial moraine in 1957. The 🤯 thing is that these cobbles are *rounded* - they were made by water flowing in a river. They whisper of a time when Antarctica was a very different place.

An interesting approach in applying ⚒️🧪 earth science to support the economics of energy transition.

More Mountains. Entombed. In. Ice. ⚒️🧪

Want to know more about ⚒️🧪 Rare Earths? Check out the recording of last week's Geoscience Australia 3-part seminar. Dr Karen Soldenhoff's talk about the REE supply chain is fascinating, as are Dr Jessica Walsh on mineral potential modelling and Dr Mark Pearce on finding REE in regolith.

Manager organises road trip for team.