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Of all the minerals in the #OreCup for my art/physics use voting scheme copper wins hands down!
Ok, molybdenum has some applications as catalyst/electrodes/in alloys but copper is the conductor par excellence.
In art we have all of bronze & copper sculpture & many blue/green pigments! Vote copper!
Vote for #copper here: https://www.mineralcup.org/vote-results/vote-r3m1
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Round 1 Match 3 of #OreCup25 #OreCup
is Ilmenite vs JadariteIlmenite as a titanium-iron oxide mineral wins the arts vote for titanium dioxide white paint in modern art (like this Franz Klein).
Though Jadarite, only discovered in 2004 gets some physics points as a source of lithium (& use in batteries) & some arts points for boron (used in ceramic & glasses) #scicomm #arthist
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/vote-results/vote-r1m3
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Round 1 Match 3 of #OreCup25 #OreCup
is Ilmenite vs JadariteIlmenite as a titanium-iron oxide mineral wins the arts vote for titanium dioxide white paint in modern art (like this Franz Klein).
Though Jadarite, only discovered in 2004 gets some physics points as a source of lithium (& use in batteries) & some arts points for boron (used in ceramic & glasses) #scicomm #arthist
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/vote-results/vote-r1m3
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Round 1 Match 3 of #OreCup25 #OreCup
is Ilmenite vs JadariteIlmenite as a titanium-iron oxide mineral wins the arts vote for titanium dioxide white paint in modern art (like this Franz Klein).
Though Jadarite, only discovered in 2004 gets some physics points as a source of lithium (& use in batteries) & some arts points for boron (used in ceramic & glasses) #scicomm #arthist
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/vote-results/vote-r1m3
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Round 1 Match 3 of #OreCup25 #OreCup
is Ilmenite vs JadariteIlmenite as a titanium-iron oxide mineral wins the arts vote for titanium dioxide white paint in modern art (like this Franz Klein).
Though Jadarite, only discovered in 2004 gets some physics points as a source of lithium (& use in batteries) & some arts points for boron (used in ceramic & glasses) #scicomm #arthist
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/vote-results/vote-r1m3
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Round 1 Match 3 of #OreCup25 #OreCup
is Ilmenite vs JadariteIlmenite as a titanium-iron oxide mineral wins the arts vote for titanium dioxide white paint in modern art (like this Franz Klein).
Though Jadarite, only discovered in 2004 gets some physics points as a source of lithium (& use in batteries) & some arts points for boron (used in ceramic & glasses) #scicomm #arthist
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/vote-results/vote-r1m3
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Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).
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Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).
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Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).
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Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).
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Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).
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Cuprosklodowskite was mistakenly named for sklodowskite, in turn named for Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dioptase has been used as a pigment since ancient times. You find it on Neolithic sculpture. Asian murals & Russian religious icons. It’s also used in jewellery. Dioptase wins the arts vote!
#MinCup25Vote for #dioptase here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04
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Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, is pretty, blue & can fluoresce. But electrically conductive iron-ore hematite is an absolute giant of art history, used as red ochre, going back at least 164,000 years to Pinnacle Point Caves! Also called Venetian, mars or English red.
Vote hematite! #MinCup25
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m01
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Thortveitite is the main ore of scandium.
Titanite is prized for its beauty, comes in different colours & is a source of titanium and hence titanium dioxide, used as a white pigment since ~1910. So, it gets my art vote.
Gets physics vote for trichroism- transparent specimens can show 3 colours depending on viewing angle. #MinCup25 #scicomm #artHist #pigment
Vote for titanite here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m11
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Both wavellite and dioptase are sometimes made into jewelry but (though a rare pigment) dioptase has been on artwork used since Neolithic times so it wins my art vote!
See for instance Neolithic sculpture from Jordan, some ancients Asian murals & Russian religious icons.
#MinCup25Vote for dioptase here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m10
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Histoire de l'art en Nouvelle-Grenade (Colombie actuelle) :
"des plafonds peints à Tunja comprennent des images de la flore locale et de la faune étrangère, comme un rhinocéros et des éléphants face à des dieux gréco-romains, basés sur une série d’estampes de Fontainebleau."
19 juin 2025, #INHA, salle Vasari. #Agenda #arthist #histart #artsci -
Histoire de l'art en Nouvelle-Grenade (Colombie actuelle) :
"des plafonds peints à Tunja comprennent des images de la flore locale et de la faune étrangère, comme un rhinocéros et des éléphants face à des dieux gréco-romains, basés sur une série d’estampes de Fontainebleau."
19 juin 2025, #INHA, salle Vasari. #Agenda #arthist #histart #artsci -
Histoire de l'art en Nouvelle-Grenade (Colombie actuelle) :
"des plafonds peints à Tunja comprennent des images de la flore locale et de la faune étrangère, comme un rhinocéros et des éléphants face à des dieux gréco-romains, basés sur une série d’estampes de Fontainebleau."
19 juin 2025, #INHA, salle Vasari. #Agenda #arthist #histart #artsci -
Histoire de l'art en Nouvelle-Grenade (Colombie actuelle) :
"des plafonds peints à Tunja comprennent des images de la flore locale et de la faune étrangère, comme un rhinocéros et des éléphants face à des dieux gréco-romains, basés sur une série d’estampes de Fontainebleau."
19 juin 2025, #INHA, salle Vasari. #Agenda #arthist #histart #artsci -
#MinCup Round 3 Match 3
Don’t fall for this meat rock nonsense! Sure Rhodochrosite is pretty but vote calcite!
Vote for calcite’s gargantuan role in art history - all of marble art and limestone sculpture, chalk drawing, pigment and extender. If you care about art and art history avenge Quartz and defeat Rhodochrosite!
Vote calcite for fossils! Vote calcite for Viking navigation & birefringence!