From cataloguing specimens to learning how geological collections are cared for, TY student Sarah Nugent got a unique behind-the-scenes experience at the National Museum of Ireland.
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Welcome back, Cotterite.

Boy (7) strikes it lucky by finding one of the world’s rarest minerals near his home in Cork

Within seconds of handing it over to an expert, it was clear quartz discovery was very special

Patrick Roycroft and Ben with the piece of cotterite he found in Rockforest East, near Mallow in Co Cork

I loved reading this and its lessons on curiosity and happening upon any of the myriad wonders our planet has wrought that empower us to access awe.

"In many ways, cotterite is as much a story about attention – paying it and following it... – as it is about chemistry and geology."

#Geology #Earth

I bet someone in Ireland is currently naming their next new time 'Ben O’Driscoll Cotterite'.
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Y’all. There’s a mineral called Cotterite.

Cotterite grew in Cork because Rockforest offered a precise set of conditions: the fluids, temperatures, pressures and chemistry which, at that moment, conspired to create something extraordinarily unique. Only there, only then, did this alchemy produce a crystal that looks so different […]

The winterpaw texture I said would come before June's up..!

This form's gem is the cotterite, and it's a master of alchemy and the manipulation of matter!

Base: Winterpaw Feline by Julia Winterpaw

I was informed of another variety of Quartz that wasn't on my chart... Cotterite!

Now to figure out an element and a species for it... Maybe "matter/atomic control"? Controlling and changing states of matter?

This is extremely cool. I just wish the article had a close up and well-lit picture of a piece of cotterite so we could see it!

A great story. ellamcsweeney.bsky.social on Ben O’Driscoll’s cotterite.
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See Cotterite here www.youtube.com/live/hGQtDe6...

See Cotterite here www.youtube.com/live/hGQtDe6...

Cotterite is an exceedingly rare form of quartz known from one Irish locality in Co. Cork. I was privileged to be present when Ben (7) brought it into the museum @nmireland.bsky.social Full story just published in Irish Naturalists’ Journal @injournal.bsky.social

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