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  1. 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
  2. Vicky Veritas @[email protected] ·

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

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:efs523olver6h4eait3togjq/post/3lyn4xfeod22y

    #zunyite #mincup25
  3. Vicky Veritas @[email protected] ·

    Twinkle, twinkle little #zunyite stars! #MinCup25

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yj6sgwsok5dex56a4jq56xso/post/3lylwrbjrmc26

    #zunyite #mincup25
  4. Vicky Veritas @[email protected] ·

    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

    #zunyite #mincup25
  5. Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @[email protected] ·

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

    Vote: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m12
    Results: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r1

    #mincup25 #zunyite #molybdenite