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  1. Repost from Adriana Guatame
    (@adriguatame.bsky.social):
    With I always remember this video created by Stacey Phillips via the Mineralogical Society (the LEGO stop motion science videos)

    youtube.com/watch?v=4tm5DrTU0W8

  2. Quebec has industrial quantities of kyanite -although I don't think any are being mined today. They're in the Grenville, the roots of the Himalayan-scale mountains formed over a billion years ago. The screenshot below is from MinDat: mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14

    The Ministère has an awkwardly translated page "Mineral Substances in Quebec" that includes Kyanite in its list of wealth:
    gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca/portail-su

  3. Perovskite is found just west of Montreal in the Oka Complex; Carbonate-rich, silica-poor magma emplaced in the Cretaceous. The site was mined for niobium in the 1960's and 1970's -it's also enriched in REEs and thorium.

    There’s more about perovsite at Oka on MinDat:
    mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14
    a non-profit mineral data base founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph (who is on Mastodon at @jolyon )

  4. Perovskite is found just west of Montreal in the Oka Complex; Carbonate-rich, silica-poor magma emplaced in the Cretaceous. The site was mined for niobium in the 1960's and 1970's -it's also enriched in REEs and thorium.

    There’s more about perovsite at Oka on MinDat:
    mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14
    a non-profit mineral data base founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph (who is on Mastodon at @jolyon )

    #MinCup24 #Perovsite #Oka #Carbonatite #Quebec #Canada #niobium

  5. Perovskite is found just west of Montreal in the Oka Complex; Carbonate-rich, silica-poor magma emplaced in the Cretaceous. The site was mined for niobium in the 1960's and 1970's -it's also enriched in REEs and thorium.

    There’s more about perovsite at Oka on MinDat:
    mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14
    a non-profit mineral data base founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph (who is on Mastodon at @jolyon )

    #MinCup24 #Perovsite #Oka #Carbonatite #Quebec #Canada #niobium

  6. Perovskite is found just west of Montreal in the Oka Complex; Carbonate-rich, silica-poor magma emplaced in the Cretaceous. The site was mined for niobium in the 1960's and 1970's -it's also enriched in REEs and thorium.

    There’s more about perovsite at Oka on MinDat:
    mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14
    a non-profit mineral data base founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph (who is on Mastodon at @jolyon )

    #MinCup24 #Perovsite #Oka #Carbonatite #Quebec #Canada #niobium

  7. Perovskite is found just west of Montreal in the Oka Complex; Carbonate-rich, silica-poor magma emplaced in the Cretaceous. The site was mined for niobium in the 1960's and 1970's -it's also enriched in REEs and thorium.

    There’s more about perovsite at Oka on MinDat:
    mindat.org/locentries.php?p=14
    a non-profit mineral data base founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph (who is on Mastodon at @jolyon )

    #MinCup24 #Perovsite #Oka #Carbonatite #Quebec #Canada #niobium

  8. Kyanite isn't just a fetching blue mineral that documents the experience of sediments under extreme duress.
    It's an ore -Virginia alone mined 83,000 tonnes in 2023. Kyanite in furnace insulation transforms to mullite when heated, expanding to reduce porosity and shrinkage.

    Virginia Kyanite (photo: J. Wyman) from:
    energy.virginia.gov/geology/Ky

  9. Antimony Tin Oxide scatters the wavelengths of infrared light emitted by warm humans. The antimony is often sourced from . This material is being used to create fabric infrared invisibility cloaks!

    from Jeong et al. (2020) NPG Asia Materials

  10. Early career presenter at tomorrow:
    Dr. Noah Phillips
    Wednesday, 25 Sep, 08:20 AM - 08:40 AM , Room 304B
    speaking on:
    WHY DO SUBDUCTION THRUSTS LOCK? EVOLVING EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZES MODULATE CREEP RATES THROUGH PRESSURE SOLUTION 

    Noah is starting up at USC and is looking for potential graduate students.

  11. Early career presenter at #GSAConnects2024 tomorrow:
    Dr. Noah Phillips
    Wednesday, 25 Sep, 08:20 AM - 08:40 AM , Room 304B
    speaking on:
    WHY DO SUBDUCTION THRUSTS LOCK? EVOLVING EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZES MODULATE CREEP RATES THROUGH PRESSURE SOLUTION 

    Noah is starting up at USC and is looking for potential graduate students.

    #GSA2024 #Geology #Subduction #LakeheadU #USC

  12. Early career presenter at #GSAConnects2024 tomorrow:
    Dr. Noah Phillips
    Wednesday, 25 Sep, 08:20 AM - 08:40 AM , Room 304B
    speaking on:
    WHY DO SUBDUCTION THRUSTS LOCK? EVOLVING EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZES MODULATE CREEP RATES THROUGH PRESSURE SOLUTION 

    Noah is starting up at USC and is looking for potential graduate students.

    #GSA2024 #Geology #Subduction #LakeheadU #USC

  13. Early career presenter at #GSAConnects2024 tomorrow:
    Dr. Noah Phillips
    Wednesday, 25 Sep, 08:20 AM - 08:40 AM , Room 304B
    speaking on:
    WHY DO SUBDUCTION THRUSTS LOCK? EVOLVING EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZES MODULATE CREEP RATES THROUGH PRESSURE SOLUTION 

    Noah is starting up at USC and is looking for potential graduate students.

    #GSA2024 #Geology #Subduction #LakeheadU #USC

  14. Early career presenter at #GSAConnects2024 tomorrow:
    Dr. Noah Phillips
    Wednesday, 25 Sep, 08:20 AM - 08:40 AM , Room 304B
    speaking on:
    WHY DO SUBDUCTION THRUSTS LOCK? EVOLVING EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZES MODULATE CREEP RATES THROUGH PRESSURE SOLUTION 

    Noah is starting up at USC and is looking for potential graduate students.

    #GSA2024 #Geology #Subduction #LakeheadU #USC

  15. from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists:
    Titanite: the Wedge-shaped Timepiece, by Ronald L. Parker

    has a distinctive crystal form that it flaunts…

    …titanite is among the very few minerals that enjoy a larger color dispersion than that of diamond…

    Hayden, Watson & Wark established that the relative concentration of Zr 4+ in titanite is systematically related to pressure and temperature conditions.

    rmag.org/index.php?src=directo

  16. 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 retired professors ago.