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Oh NO.
If you ever wanted proof #MinCup2020 brackets are randomly assigned, it’s that I would never, ever pit my easy favs against each other in Round 1.
If you ever wanted proof #MinCup2020 brackets are randomly assigned, it’s that I would never, ever pit my easy favs against each other in Round 1.
Once upon a time a hunk of #sodalite glowing under UV light went viral with a stolen video with a misleading caption and capture your imagination:
Meanwhile, you once stumbled upon a chunk of #Wulfenite during #YouFindARock and spent an afternoon playing with it.
It's 2020, the year where anything can happen.
The #MinCup2020 bracket is sticking to the rules with all official minerals. Voting starts September 1st.
Who will join legends #Olivine (2017), #Garnet (2018), & #IceMin (2019) to be this year's #champion?
The #MinCup2020 bracket is sticking to the rules with all official minerals. Voting starts September 1st.
Who will join legends #Olivine (2017), #Garnet (2018), & #IceMin (2019) to be this year's #champion?
#MinCup2020 is kicking off quasi-alphabetically in a battle of peacock ore #Bornite vs poisonous red #Cinnabar
Pick your champion, make your arguments, and VOTE!
Pick your champion, make your arguments, and VOTE!
I had exactly 30min entry-to-exit to explore @hmns.
I’d heard they have a solid collection of trilobites & the massive cut blue sapphire Siren of Serendip is a special exhibit.
But with the clock ticking down, I raced up the stairs & tumbled into Cullen Hall of Gems & Minerals.
I’d heard they have a solid collection of trilobites & the massive cut blue sapphire Siren of Serendip is a special exhibit.
But with the clock ticking down, I raced up the stairs & tumbled into Cullen Hall of Gems & Minerals.
#Crocoite: Shiny red-orange spiketastic lead chromate.
Despite being named for colour-matching saffron, lead makes it firmly “Do Not Lick.”
This particular spikefren is from Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, sticking with “everything cute in Australia can secretly kill you” theme.
Despite being named for colour-matching saffron, lead makes it firmly “Do Not Lick.”
This particular spikefren is from Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, sticking with “everything cute in Australia can secretly kill you” theme.
#Fluorite: a honkin’ massive cube of calcium fluorite with that particular dull-waxy translucence I wanna pet so bad.
No UV light to see if it’d fluoresce pretty colours for me.
From Nikolaevskiy Mine in Russia where hot sulfide solutions crystallized in limestone caverns.
No UV light to see if it’d fluoresce pretty colours for me.
From Nikolaevskiy Mine in Russia where hot sulfide solutions crystallized in limestone caverns.
