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  1. Bill Minarik @silicatefondue ·

    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)

    #mincup25 #kyanite #tugtupite
  2. Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @[email protected] ·

    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.

    #mincup25 #kyanite #tugtupite
  3. Bill Minarik @silicatefondue ·

    Reposted from bsky:

    #mincup25 #topaz #kyanite
  4. Bill Minarik @silicatefondue ·

    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.

    #mincup25 #kyanite #topaz #zunyite #aluminosilicate #mineralsocamerica
  5. Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @[email protected] ·

    #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

    #mincup25 #topaz #kyanite