#zunyite — Public Fediverse posts

The organizers of #MinCup25 are very clever. Today and yesterday feature three aluminosilicates that are compositionally co-linear!

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

#kyanite #topaz #zunyite #aluminosilicate #MineralSocAmerica #ArgillicAlteration

Crystals won’t help your chakras, but #zunyite wonderous little stars will certainly make you smile :) #MinCup25

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Crystals won’t help your chakras, but #zunyite wonderous little stars will certainly make you smile :) #MinCup25

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Twinkle, twinkle little #zunyite stars! #MinCup25

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Twinkle, twinkle little #zunyite stars! #MinCup25

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Another cool property of #zunyite is fluorescence! This sample holds hundreds of small octahedral fluorescent #zunyite crystals in a matrix of mostly non-fluorescent quartz. From the Big Bertha mine in La Paz County, Arizona. #MinCup25

Another cool property of #zunyite is fluorescence! This sample holds hundreds of small octahedral fluorescent #zunyite crystals in a matrix of mostly non-fluorescent quartz. From the Big Bertha mine in La Paz County, Arizona. #MinCup25

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 12: It's the visually-unmistakable #zunyite vs the physically funky #molybdenite.

Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m12
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/results/r1m12