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#kyanite in biotite gneiss from the Entia Dome, central Australia. Kyanite forms deep in the crust before it makes its way to the Earth’s surface, a slow and much more challenging journey than taenite’s fall through space. #MinCup25

The Smithsonian has a bunch of #kyanite! A lot of it is cut like gems but there is also this cool tall piece. #MinCup25 #MinCup25SideQuest

Look, I loves me some meteoritic, space circuit board #Taenite, but I think if #Kyanite doesn’t win this round of #MinCup25, this sample below from the Smithsonian is going to come to life and, lets just say, open up a can of Big Blue Bust-Up. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2...

One mineral tells us about the depth below the earth, the other comes from beyond Earth. You can decide which one goes to the next round by voting at mineralcup.org today! #geology #mineral #MinCup25

As many types of extreme weather (and extreme weather-related) events become more intense and occur more frequently in a warming #climate, it is already forcing increasingly difficult decisions about how to mitigate increasingly unmanageable risks.

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Again another tough one, but my vote goes to kyanite.

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En el 7mo juego de la 2da ronda de #MinCup25 se enfrentan la Cianita #Kyanite y la Taenita #Taenite. Uno proveniente de la profundidad del planeta tierra y otro del espacio. Votá: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Yo elegí Taenita

Team #Kyanite forever until it wins. Also, obviously this has 0 scientific basis, but I think kyanite is the friendliest mineral. (Yes, I lifted this attitude from a certain movie.) #MinCup

It's the high pressure knife play kink rock #Kyanite for me, of course. She deserves this perhaps more than perovskite. All the "team blue" folks & art/history folks better show up for our girl here. She's tough, but from certain angles, she can be a softy. Don't y'all let her down. #MinCup25

voted blue this time... sorry space mineral (i voted for you before, it's only fair)

I have been a kyanite fan for years. Team kyanite all the way.

Wow. This #MinCup25 match could set the stage for two cosmic minerals colliding in the next round or move us closer to a blue showdown. (Hematite will prevail. Sorry, no blue showdown. But it would be interesting.)

Finding kyanite in a rock always makes me so happy.

I’m voting for one of three polymorphs that indicate metamorphic temperature and pressure: #Kyanite, Sillimanite, and Andalusite. Enjoy these photos in lieu of their phase diagram ; ) #MinCup25

Your periodic reminder that 42 is the answer to everything. #MinCup25

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#Molybdenite accommodates transition elements, and its isotopes record age. Its transition element chemistry changed after the Great Oxidation Event. Molybdenite recorded the progressive influence of atmospheric O2 on crustal chemistry. #MinCup25

Huge battle here in #MinCup25 We have ghostly green space rock #kosmochlor versus the more terrestrial titanium rooted green of #titanite. This is a green battle for the ages and sets up a green battle for the crown. Pics below and vote!

Sphene! Sphene! Sphene! #titanite #MinCup25

Repost from last year: A titanite lozenge imaged both using a cellphone through the microscope ocular, and with a proper imaging system. It's surrounded mostly by quartz (+feldspar). Likely from the Grenville, but from a teaching collection two generations of […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Yeah, I'm going with #titanite again this round! This colour shifting titan is also known as sphene - a name with unclear etymology, probably from a Greek substrate language(not PIE)! Sorry, #kosmochlor! (Not as rare as it sounds.) Whichever of you lovelies makes it through, you deserve it though!

Folks, there’s still plenty of time to get titanite’s gorgeous crystals (in my favorite colors) to make a run from behind and take over the lead from space jade. Y’all have another chance to vote for a space rock, coming up with taenite. Let’s go, titanite! #MinCup25

With 5½ hours to go, #Titanite is gaining on azurite’s killer #Kosmochlor. Titanite is a great geochronometer & a source of titanium used in pigments so it’s key for both geology AND art. It’s time for titanite to close the gap & strike a blow for those of us singing Azurite’s blues! #MinCup25

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My #MinCup25 watching tonight. Oh, it's 4 a.m. Well. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I enjoyed this video on #Titanite (also called #Sphene). It was actually kind neat to see specimens that are in matrix and with some other crystals as well as the pure titanite. 13.5 mins, ads youtu.be/2VO4whhs-ZI?...

kosmochlor X titanite in the match 4 of the 2nd round. how can someone choose? #MinCup25 #minerals #sciart

While it may be associated with jadeite & hence be carved, it’s a challenge to find sculpture that’s definitely kosmochlor so I’m giving titanite, prized for it’s beauty & a source of the pigment titanium dioxide white since ~1910, the arts vote. On the physics front it boasts trichroism. #MinCup25

very sad i didn't learn about the Mineral Cup until partway through round 2!!! Gotta go with titanite here even as a space nerd, i'm a sucker for that green #MinCup25

The later rounds of #MinCup25 are always tough calls… After deliberating for a while, I think I gotta go with #Kosmochlor! It’s found in meteorites, and it’s an intense green!! Go vote!

Gotta go with #titanite for all of the fun reasons, but also because it's a source of titanium dioxide, esp for use as a white pigment. (Not a primary source, but still an important source of TiO2.) #MinCup25

As magma cools, do crystals sink or float? Does viscosity change in the melt? U and REE isotopes in #Titanite record chemical differentiation and age of magmatic melts, important for understanding evolution of Earth’s crust. #MinCup25 sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Voting for kosmochlor as I'd never heard of it before this #MinCup25 and it's a great example showing that substituting a cation can result in a stunning colour change!

Space Green v Progenitor of the Gods green. Still not over #Kosmochlor beating my beloved Azurite, and in the first round no less! It’s going to take some convincing from kosmochlorians to get me not to vote for #Titanite, which tells stories of the early Earth, on the revenge basis alone! #MinCup25

We’ve heard it said … titanite is used to help date pink diamonds. #MinCup25 eos.org/articles/con...

I’m backing the underdog, #Carpathite in today’s #MinCup vote: I wasn’t aware that crystalline polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons existed in nature! PAHs in Antarctic Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 were briefly considered as evidence that it once contained microbial life.

For #carpathite vs #tugtupite I don't have photos exactly but I want to share the florescents display! #MinCup25 #MinCup25SideQuest

Tough choice: #carpathite bc I'm an organic chemist #tugtupite bc of tenebrescence (when a mineral changes color after exposure to UV light) Tugtupite from Greenland, left: after exposure to SW-UV; right: the pink color faded after ca. 1 day in its box. (this sample has been stolen 2023 😭)

#MinCup25 #R2M4 It's truly a battle of the UV dynamos. For this match we have two fluorescent beauties facing off in what promises to be a good match. We have #carpathite the very rare hydrocarbon versus #tugtupite the silicate relative of sodalite Battle of the glowing stones Pics below Vote!

Vote #Carpathite :) #MinCup25 sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

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I shall have to delay my vote until 3:59:30 (local, aka 30 seconds to go) and blindly make a choice, I am not sire this can be decided rationally. #MinCup #MinCup25

When the sun fades, I fade Though a snowy sparkle stays When the sun's bright, I'm bright Sudden waking, warm as life #MinCup25 #tugtupite #MinPoem

#MinCup25 sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐 You know what to do ☺️