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They just announced Mineral and Fossil of the Year 2024 in Hungary! Mineral is corundum, and fossil is the woolly mammoth.
Also, Mineral Resource of the Year will be copper.Yay!
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They just announced Mineral and Fossil of the Year 2024 in Hungary! Mineral is corundum, and fossil is the woolly mammoth.
Also, Mineral Resource of the Year will be copper.Yay!
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When not writing stories about #zircon for #MinCup23 (hooray!), I can be found on occasion doing other #scicomm. This is from an event over the weekend at the #Australian Parliament House Open Day (to mark 35 years since the opening). Geoscience Australia were invited to tell the stories of the beautiful architectural #stone from around the world used in the design of the building (see examples in the picture). We also threw in some local rocks and #fossils and some of our awesome interactive tubs. It was a busy day but always interesting to talk to the public. Big thanks to the GA and APH organisers for a great day!
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When not writing stories about #zircon for #MinCup23 (hooray!), I can be found on occasion doing other #scicomm. This is from an event over the weekend at the #Australian Parliament House Open Day (to mark 35 years since the opening). Geoscience Australia were invited to tell the stories of the beautiful architectural #stone from around the world used in the design of the building (see examples in the picture). We also threw in some local rocks and #fossils and some of our awesome interactive tubs. It was a busy day but always interesting to talk to the public. Big thanks to the GA and APH organisers for a great day!
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#Zircon and #Perovskite are worthy adversaries. Congratulations!
Next year is the year of #sapphirine. Momentum is building -it received 100's of more votes than last year.
Go Blue! Go Sapphirine!
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#Zircon and #Perovskite are worthy adversaries. Congratulations!
Next year is the year of #sapphirine. Momentum is building -it received 100's of more votes than last year.
Go Blue! Go Sapphirine!
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#TeamZircon This is all you! Congratulations! #MinCup23 Champions! Good job #TeamPerovskite!
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#TeamZircon This is all you! Congratulations! #MinCup23 Champions! Good job #TeamPerovskite!
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An amazing month of mineral facts, photos, and fun. The organizers of #MinCup23, @MineralCup have done an astounding job of keeping everything straight and maintaining the enthusiasm. Thank you!
Thanks also to www.MinDat.org for their support and resources.
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An amazing month of mineral facts, photos, and fun. The organizers of #MinCup23, @MineralCup have done an astounding job of keeping everything straight and maintaining the enthusiasm. Thank you!
Thanks also to www.MinDat.org for their support and resources.
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#TeamZircon our lead is gone!
If there's anyone you can convince to vote, now's the time
https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1
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#TeamZircon our lead is gone!
If there's anyone you can convince to vote, now's the time
https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1
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#Zircon shock twins in zircon with planar fractures in Chicxulub quartz-monzodiorite dike. Do not be complacent #TeamZircon. Call your grandma and your Great Uncle Bob. Rally your colleagues and students. Pester your parents. Annoy your neighbors. This is it! We still need some zircon magic to keep the votes coming! #ZirconRemembers #MinCup23
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1
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#Zircon shock twins in zircon with planar fractures in Chicxulub quartz-monzodiorite dike. Do not be complacent #TeamZircon. Call your grandma and your Great Uncle Bob. Rally your colleagues and students. Pester your parents. Annoy your neighbors. This is it! We still need some zircon magic to keep the votes coming! #ZirconRemembers #MinCup23
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1
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Brilliant. You can assure this is the last time :) Come join the meme team, and vote for #TeamZircon #MinCup23 #Zircon
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Brilliant. You can assure this is the last time :) Come join the meme team, and vote for #TeamZircon #MinCup23 #Zircon
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#MinCup23 Here's a gorgeous big zircon crystal in a rock thin section of a Lewisian gneiss from Rodil in South Harris. Field of view about 2mm wide. 🥰 🤩 #VoteZircon #Geology #Mineralogy #Lewisian
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#MinCup23 Here's a gorgeous big zircon crystal in a rock thin section of a Lewisian gneiss from Rodil in South Harris. Field of view about 2mm wide. 🥰 🤩 #VoteZircon #Geology #Mineralogy #Lewisian
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Do you like sparkle? Gem-quality zircon has a higher refractive index than sapphires or rubies. Blue zircons are more expensive, and are usually are heat-treated. Do not confuse them with cubic zirconium. More here: https://marksingermandesigns.com/2016/12/14/five-essential-things-to-know-about-zircon-gemstones/
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Do you like sparkle? Gem-quality zircon has a higher refractive index than sapphires or rubies. Blue zircons are more expensive, and are usually are heat-treated. Do not confuse them with cubic zirconium. More here: https://marksingermandesigns.com/2016/12/14/five-essential-things-to-know-about-zircon-gemstones/
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#MinCup23 Enjoy FUN WITH ZIRCON - award-winning short video by Glasgow student Mirren Green, to accompany her final year lab project in 2019 😊 Vote zircon!!! #Zircon #Geology #Mineralogy #Iona #Lewisian https://youtu.be/W_GuozXgpR8?si=VmkehYZVqE2h_bqW
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#MinCup23 Enjoy FUN WITH ZIRCON - award-winning short video by Glasgow student Mirren Green, to accompany her final year lab project in 2019 😊 Vote zircon!!! #Zircon #Geology #Mineralogy #Iona #Lewisian https://youtu.be/W_GuozXgpR8?si=VmkehYZVqE2h_bqW
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https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1 And for chrissakes don't vote for #Zircon. It wins every year.
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#MinCup23 It's the FINAL!! Vote zircon - the friend of the foramanifera 🥰 https://aus.social/@ksircombe/111156616671274672
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I can't believe we already got to the #MinCup23 finals! Zircon gets my folklore vote, strengthened by excellent campaigning by the Time Lord team 😄
What the heck am I gonna read campaigns about for the next 11 months?...
Thank you, MinCup team, you are the best! 😊
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The time has come for me to bring up the time I had a picture with David Tennant, TimeLord.
Vote #Zircon #MinCup23 @MineralCup #TeamZircon -
Voted for #perovskite because #zircon has an early, fast lead and at this point everyone is singing its praises. Pffft.
Anyway this #MinCup23 has been fun but I think I will pick a different criteria to vote on next year. 🤣 too many minerals don't fit "chaos" (by my admittedly somewhat arbitrary definition, but hey, aren't we all using somewhat arbitrary scales in the end? 🤣🤣)!
Also may perovskite win!!
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Your vote for #Perovskite is a vote for the future and its infinite possibilities. #VoteTheFuture #MInCup23 (edited to add links to articles graphics were published in to ALT)
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/campaigns/campaigns/round-4-match-2
Results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-4-match-2
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Your vote for #Perovskite is a vote for the future and its infinite possibilities. #VoteTheFuture #MInCup23 (edited to add links to articles graphics were published in to ALT)
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/campaigns/campaigns/round-4-match-2
Results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-4-match-2
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Your vote for #Perovskite is a vote for the future and its infinite possibilities. #VoteTheFuture #MInCup23 (edited to add links to articles graphics were published in to ALT)
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/campaigns/campaigns/round-4-match-2
Results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-4-match-2
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Your vote for #Perovskite is a vote for the future and its infinite possibilities. #VoteTheFuture #MInCup23 (edited to add links to articles graphics were published in to ALT)
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/campaigns/campaigns/round-4-match-2
Results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-4-match-2
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Your vote for #Perovskite is a vote for the future and its infinite possibilities. #VoteTheFuture #MInCup23 (edited to add links to articles graphics were published in to ALT)
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/campaigns/campaigns/round-4-match-2
Results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-4-match-2
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Almost halfway through the voting window for the second semi-final in this year's Mineral Cup and the Fortress of Solitude just has the lead over the Borg Cube, but the difference is so little as to be practically negligible.
How did I vote? Well, I like Star Trek, I like the Borg, but I also like to be contrary, so #Stibnite got my vote over #Perovskite in this case.
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Almost halfway through the voting window for the second semi-final in this year's Mineral Cup and the Fortress of Solitude just has the lead over the Borg Cube, but the difference is so little as to be practically negligible.
How did I vote? Well, I like Star Trek, I like the Borg, but I also like to be contrary, so #Stibnite got my vote over #Perovskite in this case.
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This #perovskite Borg-like crystal can have complex faces, In fact, perovskite has a wide range of morphologies. Perovskite rains from stars, and perovskite structure fuels brilliant new technologies. #VoteTheFuture #MinCup23
mindat.org/photo-214655.h… via mindat.org
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This #perovskite Borg-like crystal can have complex faces, In fact, perovskite has a wide range of morphologies. Perovskite rains from stars, and perovskite structure fuels brilliant new technologies. #VoteTheFuture #MinCup23
mindat.org/photo-214655.h… via mindat.org
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This #perovskite Borg-like crystal can have complex faces, In fact, perovskite has a wide range of morphologies. Perovskite rains from stars, and perovskite structure fuels brilliant new technologies. #VoteTheFuture #MinCup23
mindat.org/photo-214655.h… via mindat.org
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This #perovskite Borg-like crystal can have complex faces, In fact, perovskite has a wide range of morphologies. Perovskite rains from stars, and perovskite structure fuels brilliant new technologies. #VoteTheFuture #MinCup23
mindat.org/photo-214655.h… via mindat.org
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This #perovskite Borg-like crystal can have complex faces, In fact, perovskite has a wide range of morphologies. Perovskite rains from stars, and perovskite structure fuels brilliant new technologies. #VoteTheFuture #MinCup23
mindat.org/photo-214655.h… via mindat.org
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#Stibnite vs #Perovskite?
I know I'm supposed to care, but I really don't.
Pick one. Vote. Or not.
And #Zircon? Yawn, Whatever.
Yay....
All that's left are expansion teams.
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#Zircon doesn't just keep time; it can record temperature too. The image is of a ~4mm zoned zircon crystal from the Bancroft-area of Ontario (Grenville-age granulite metamorphics). The trenches are 40 and 60 microns wide, created by laser-ablation #ICPMS analyses.
~3.5 parts per million titanium corresponds to crystallization temperatures of ~ 675°C (plus or minus a lot, unfortunately, in this case).
#MinCup23 #metamorphism -
#Zircon doesn't just keep time; it can record temperature too. The image is of a ~4mm zoned zircon crystal from the Bancroft-area of Ontario (Grenville-age granulite metamorphics). The trenches are 40 and 60 microns wide, created by laser-ablation #ICPMS analyses.
~3.5 parts per million titanium corresponds to crystallization temperatures of ~ 675°C (plus or minus a lot, unfortunately, in this case).
#MinCup23 #metamorphism
