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  1. And here are color versions of the 32 minerals in placed on the bracket.

    Winner , runner up

    Drawings by Fernando Salvaterra on BlueSky(@salvaterra.bsky.social)

  2. We have a #MinCup25 champion!!

    Congratulations, #Kyanite!
    mineralcup.org/2025

    After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right?

    Amazing first run, #Tugtupite, and better luck next year.

  3. The organizers of are very clever. Today and yesterday feature three aluminosilicates that are compositionally co-linear!

    Diagram from Barton (1982), published in the American Mineralogist.

  4. #MinCup25 Round 1 Match 13: It's a battle of high-pressure colourful beauties of #topaz vs #kyanite. Which can stand the heat of round 1?

    Vote: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m13
    Results: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r1