#mineral — Public Fediverse posts
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Bolivia by SlowPathsImages
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#bolivia #altiplanoboliviano #southlipezregion #surlipez #reservanaturaleduardoavaroa #andesmountains #andesplateau #wildlife #flamingos #sanctuary #highaltitude #southernbolivia #southamerica #americalatina #landscape #mineral #travel #nature #silence #smellylake #wilderness #remoteregion #lagunahedionda #flickr #thingsdavidlikes
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Wortel vs Ubi Jalar, Mana Lebih Sehat untuk Mata dan Jantung? Ini Perbandingannya
Aopok - #Wortel dan #UbiJalar merupakan dua jenis #sayuran yang sama-sama dikenal #kaya #nutrisi. Keduanya #mengandung #beta-karoten, #antioksidan, #vitamin, #mineral, dan #serat yang dapat menjadi bagian dari #pola makan sehat. Namun, ketika harus memilih antara wortel dan ubi jalar, mana yang sebenarnya lebih baik untuk kesehatan mata dan jantung? Jawabannya ternyata tidak sesederhana…
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Wortel vs Ubi Jalar, Mana Lebih Sehat untuk Mata dan Jantung? Ini Perbandingannya
Aopok - #Wortel dan #UbiJalar merupakan dua jenis #sayuran yang sama-sama dikenal #kaya #nutrisi. Keduanya #mengandung #beta-karoten, #antioksidan, #vitamin, #mineral, dan #serat yang dapat menjadi bagian dari #pola makan sehat. Namun, ketika harus memilih antara wortel dan ubi jalar, mana yang sebenarnya lebih baik untuk kesehatan mata dan jantung? Jawabannya ternyata tidak sesederhana…
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Today’s #sciArtSeptember prompt is the colour coral, so I am sharing a mineral with all sorts of warm pinks. This is a hand-printed lino block print of the mineral rhodochrosite, in pale gold, pinks and rosey-orange or coral. Each print is made from three blocks in three tints shades of pink or gold on Japanese kozo or mulberry paper 8” by 8” (20.3 cm by 20.3 cm). 🧵
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Here ya go, Everyone! Anyone can vote. Once a day. Just click this link. For each day links will be shared online in Mastodon, Bluesky and a not-to-be-said-aloud other social media.
Not registration needed. Just click on that button there! And then click on the second of the 2?options and of course, for magnificent mineral orpiment. Sure cuprite is pretty in a different way BUT orpiment has more centuries and thousands of years of history!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/results-r1m05
#MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals
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Here ya go, Everyone! Anyone can vote. Once a day. Just click this link. For each day links will be shared online in Mastodon, Bluesky and a not-to-be-said-aloud other social media.
Not registration needed. Just click on that button there! And then click on the second of the 2?options and of course, for magnificent mineral orpiment. Sure cuprite is pretty in a different way BUT orpiment has more centuries and thousands of years of history!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/results-r1m05
#MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals
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Here ya go, Everyone! Anyone can vote. Once a day. Just click this link. For each day links will be shared online in Mastodon, Bluesky and a not-to-be-said-aloud other social media.
Not registration needed. Just click on that button there! And then click on the second of the 2?options and of course, for magnificent mineral orpiment. Sure cuprite is pretty in a different way BUT orpiment has more centuries and thousands of years of history!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/results-r1m05
#MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals
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Here ya go, Everyone! Anyone can vote. Once a day. Just click this link. For each day links will be shared online in Mastodon, Bluesky and a not-to-be-said-aloud other social media.
Not registration needed. Just click on that button there! And then click on the second of the 2?options and of course, for magnificent mineral orpiment. Sure cuprite is pretty in a different way BUT orpiment has more centuries and thousands of years of history!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/results-r1m05
#MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals
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Here ya go, Everyone! Anyone can vote. Once a day. Just click this link. For each day links will be shared online in Mastodon, Bluesky and a not-to-be-said-aloud other social media.
Not registration needed. Just click on that button there! And then click on the second of the 2?options and of course, for magnificent mineral orpiment. Sure cuprite is pretty in a different way BUT orpiment has more centuries and thousands of years of history!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/results-r1m05
#MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals
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13 Best Heart Health Supplements (2026) Contents 1. CoQ10 2. Vitamin D3, K2 and Omega-3 3. Folate 4. Berberine 5. Natto (Nattokinase) 6. Magnesium and Molecular Hydrogen 7. Nitric Oxide Supplement...
#anti-aging #diet #heart #health #metabolic #health #mitochondria #vitamin #and #mineral
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https://www.wacoca.com/media/654316/ Book Review: Collector’s Guide to the Amphibole Group #amphibole #book #books #collectors #crystallography #edenite #formation #gem #gemology #geology #hornblende #JADE #joesmithite #Lauf #mineral #mineralogy #nephrite #Palke #pargasite #review #richterite #書籍
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Top 20 Alternative Cancer Treatments that Work: Evidence Based (2026 Edition) Access to effective, cancer-specific therapies remains limited, particularly in impoverished and low- and middle-income...
#cancer #integrative #oncology #metabolic #therapy #repurposed #drugs #vitamin #and #mineral #winning
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Hype for the Future 133J: Mineral County, West Virginia
Introduction Mineral County is situated within the eastern side of the State of West Virginia, within relatively close proximity to the Eastern Panhandle of the State of West Virginia and located to the east of the Eastern Continental Divide (ECD). Amenities The Nancy Hanks Memorial Plaque and Replica Cabin is situated on the southern side of the county limits, well to the south of the central area of unincorporated New Creek, while WVU Potomac State College represents the primary […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133j-mineral-county-west-virginia/
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Inside the #mine that feeds the #tech world - & funds #Congo’s rebels
#M23 insurgents control one of the planet's largest sources of #coltan, a #mineral prized by high-tech industries. Dislodging them is a focus of peace talks.
#Africa #Rubaya #DRC #Rwanda #Kinshasa #Tutsi #HumanRights #exploitation #business #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-mine-that-feeds-tech-world-funds-congos-rebels-2025-08-13/ -
Indigenous Empowerment to Reverse Amazonia’s Mineral Demand
Illegal #mining for minerals like #gold and cassiterite, the latter used for renewable energy, is driving #deforestation in Indigenous #Amazonia. Countries like #Brazil, #Suriname and #Guyana face the challenge of conserving forests, protecting #indigenous peoples, biodiversity whilst also meeting international resource demands. Empowering indigenous peoples to care for biodiversity rich areas of Amazonia is key to saving them for future generations. Act now to protect Indigenous lands and wildlife. #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife.
The drive for #mineral #mining in #Amazonia is driving #indigenous peoples and endangered #animals towards #extinction. Help and fight for them when you #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect @barbaranavarro https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8TF
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterKey to tempering #Amazonia’s mineral #mining demand for #gold and other metals is prioritising #Indigenous #empowerment #landrights and indigenous sovereignty #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife @barbaranavarro @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8TF
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterWritten by Yolanda Ariadne Collins, Lecturer, International Relations, University of St Andrews. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Mining for gold in Suriname. Yolanda Ariadne Collins, CC BY-NC-NDIllegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon.
In recent years, these illegal miners, who are often self-employed, mobile and working covertly, have expanded their gold mining operations to include cassiterite or “black gold”, a critical mineral essential for the renewable energy transition. Cassiterite is used to make coatings for solar panels, wind turbines and other electronic devices. Brazil, one of the world’s largest exporters of this mineral, is now scrambling to manage this new threat to its Amazon forests.
The need for developing countries such as Brazil to conserve their forests for the collective global good conflicts with the increasing demand for their resources from international markets. To complicate matters further, both the renewable energy transition and the conservation of the Amazon are urgent priorities in the global effort to arrest climate change.
But escalating deforestation puts these forests at risk of moving from a carbon sink – with trees absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they release – to a carbon source, whereby trees release more carbon dioxide than they absorb as they degrade or are burnt.
Indigenous and other forest-dwelling communities are central to forest conservation. In 2014, I spent a year living in Guyana and Suriname, two of the nine countries that share the Amazon basin. I studied the effectiveness of international policies that aim to pay these countries to avoid deforestation.
I met with members of communities who were bearing the brunt of the negative effects of small-scale gold mining, such as mercury poisoning and loss of hunting grounds. For decades, mining for gold, which threatens communities’ food supply and traditional ways of life, has been the main driver of deforestation in both countries.
Small-scale mining operations can damage both communities and the natural world. Gold mining, which generates gold for export used for jewellery and electronics, usually begins with the removal of trees and vegetation from the topsoil, facilitated by mechanical equipment such as excavators. Next, the miners dig up sediment, which gets washed with water to extract any loose flecks of gold.
Miners usually then add mercury, a substance that’s known to be toxic and incredibly damaging to human health, to washing pans to bind the gold together and separate it from the sediment. They then burn the mercury away, using lighters and welding gear. During this process, mercury is inhaled by miners and washed into nearby waterways, where it can enter the food chain and poison fish and other species, including humans.
My new book, Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield, highlights the colonial histories through which these countries were created. These histories continue to inform the land-use practices of people and forest users there. Having seen the dynamics firsthand, I argue that these unaddressed histories limit the effectiveness of international policies aimed at reducing deforestation.
Some of the policies’ limitations are rooted in their inattentiveness to the roughly five centuries of colonialism through which these countries were formed. These histories had seen forests act as places of refuge and resistance for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. I believe that power structures created by these histories need to be tackled through processes of decolonisation, which includes removing markets from their central place in processes of valuing nature, and taking seriously the worldviews of Indigenous and other forest-dependent communities.
But since 2014, small-scale mining-led deforestation in the Amazon has persisted, and even increased. The increase in mining worldwide, driven partly by the renewable energy transition, indicates that these power structures might be harder to shift than ever before.
Added pressure
When crackdowns on illegal gold mining took place in Brazil in the 1970s and ’80s, miners moved en masse to nearby Guyana and Suriname, taking their environmentally destructive technologies with them. Illegal miners of cassiterite are now following a similar pattern, showing that the global effort to reduce deforestation cannot simply focus on a single commodity as a driver of deforestation on the ground.
My work shows that the challenge of mining-led deforestation in the Amazon is rooted in historically informed, global power structures that position the Amazon and its resources as available for extraction by industries and governments in wealthier countries. These groups of people are now seeking to reduce their disproportionately high emissions through technological solutions and not through behavioural change.
These tensions also have roots in the readiness of governments and forest users in postcolonial countries, like Brazil and Guyana, to respond positively and unquestioningly to international demand for these resources.
In the Amazon, outcomes are affected by whether different groups of people have access to livelihoods that do not drive deforestation, such as those based on non-timber forest products. The situation is further shaped by the extent to which governments can work together to ensure that crackdowns in one part of the Amazon, such as Brazil, do not just drive deforestation elsewhere to Suriname, for example.
Until the power structure that disadvantages Indigenous and other historically marginalised groups changes, the negative effects of developing technologies to “save” the planet will continue to disproportionately burden these groups, even as their current way of life remains critical to supporting sustainable development outcomes.
Written by Yolanda Ariadne Collins, Lecturer, International Relations, University of St Andrews. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Multispectral Remote Sensing Expression of Lineaments and Alteration Minerals in Part of Crystalline Rock Units of Southwestern Nigeria - Implication on Gold Prospecting
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📷 Beautiful capture of network-like patterns known as "force chains"
This is Figure 2 of https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae009 by D.W. Vasco and co-authors
Wikepedia article on force chains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_chain
#physics #geomechanics #hydrogeophysics #mechanics #theory #modelling #elasticity #anelasticity #transient #deformation #creep #deformation #force #rock #mineral #rheology #seismic #california #science #research #ras #gji #photography #experiment
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¡#HolaCiencia! #Cuarzo transparente con inclusiones de #turmalina • #VideoCiencia rocksforthe/TW 🖤 #mineral
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¡#HolaCiencia! Rosa de #especularita, una variedad de hematita. Mina Jinlong, Guangdong, China • #FotoCiencia Faye_minerals/IG 🖤 #mineral
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Alien invasion!!! 👾 👽 Under in vitro culture, a #human #mesenchymal #stemcell crawls into an #osteocyte lacuna (http://bit.ly/Osteocyte) at the #bone surface, observed by scanning #electron #microscopy 🔬 🦴 Forget shape-memory #alloys! #Cells remember! (Arrowheads = bone #mineral)
#biology #electronmicroscopy #stemcells #imaging #bioimaging #biomimicry #biomineralization #invitro #apatite
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¡#HolaCiencia! Pepita de #oro estriada. Serra do Caldeirão, Pontese Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brasil • vía @GeologyTime/TW #FotoCiencia Proper_gems/IG 👑 #mineral