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#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

#MinCup26 You seem like the brilliant sort, so vote for the mineral with greater brilliance than diamond. #Cuprite

#pyromorphite wins with me #mincup26

I know the #MinCup26 quarterfinal is so, so close.

But it’s also in the dinner-rush for tired children, so auditing and validating final results will be a bit delayed.

Thank you. 💚

Looks to be #Graphite
#MinCup26 Now on to the Semi Finals! It's going to be something!
Ok get set to #Vote & #Campaign for your favorites!

@mineralcup.bsky.social

I am accepting bribes KIDDING😄 I have neither of these in my #mineral collection I would like to have both. Sorry #Pyromorphite, #Graphite received my #Vote for this last quarter final. The very persuasive #Muse got to me. #MinCup26
Hurry & get those last 20 minute votes in @mineralcup.bsky.social

hummm... I really hope that #pyromorphite gets through to the semis - cuprite, quartz and halite (all through so far) are all on the boring structure side. (on the plus point perhaps I get get my 6-year old niece to help me make models of them all) #MinCup26

Have shifted timezones so a little out of sorts - but looks like a tight one in the last #MinCup26 Quarterfinal. #Pyromorphite vividness comes from its phosphorus atoms, I love how they tuck into the crystal structure. That gets my vote today over boring #Graphite.

Cranberry red Almandine-Pyrope Garnets in silvery #Graphite matrix. Red Embers Mine, Erving, MA

Graphite. From the pencil in your hand to the batteries that run electric cars, graphite plays a central role.

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Classic bright green #Pyromorphite specimen from Daoping Mine, Guilin Prefecture, China.

#MinCup26 #MinCup #mineral #crystal #mineralogy

If graphite beats pyromorphite in #MinCup26 's last quarterfinal, the four contestants in the semifinals are Cu₂O, NaCl, SiO₂ and C. Crazy chemical simplicity, this edition. In 2025 we had Fe₂O₃ - Al₂SiO₅ and Na₄AlBeSi₄O₁₂Cl - CuSiO₂(OH)₂.

#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿 #graphite

Graphite helps my pencil to write.
My locks are not frozen up tight.
My screen door slides free,
And I've drawings to see.
So please vote for Graphite tonight!

VOTE GRAPHITE!
#MinCup26