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Today's ROTD MinCup2024 ⚒️🧪
Is Wavelite v Durangite
Wavelite is aluminophosphate and normally occurs as translucent green radial or spherical clusters.
Durangite is an orange-red mineral consisting of a fluoride & arsenate of sodium & aluminum.
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Radiating rings of green and light green with almost spoke like striations dominate the center of the piece, and betroydal clusters are present underneath this very large radial crystals the green varies from very deep green in the center to a lighter ring of green. This is then bordered by a yellow green ring and then chifts back to forest green shifting to light to the rim of light green. This is a dual radial crystal of wavelite that has a lime green center on both crystals radiatingnout to dark green with bands of light and dark on the outer edges. This is 2 circular crystals joined inn the center above betroydal wavelite. These tabular orange crystals are typical of durangite. This piece has a multitude of rectangular orange crystals stacked on each other in an interesting configuration that almost seems haphazard. Gorgeous orange and white dominate the color scheme. With the white as almost a lite dusting on the surface of the durnagite. This specimin is the same type of tabular crystals as the previous picture, but have a much deeper red color and the configuration almost seems like the crystals were growing in a spiral.
September 4, 2024 at 4:59 PM
saavikford.bsky.social
Vote here: www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1...
Round 1 Match 4 — Mineral Cup
Durangite vs Wavellite
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September 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
obialik.bsky.social
I was not going to post about #MinCup24 Round 1 Match 4 (Durangite vs Wavellite)... but then I read about Wavellite and realized that it's probably one of those cryptic phosphate sinks that make my life difficult - so naturally, it gets my vote. ⚒️
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Round 1 Match 4 — Mineral Cup
Durangite vs Wavellite
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September 4, 2024 at 6:27 AM
headphonegirl21.bsky.social
Day 25: Durangite
• Category: Tiasite
• Formula:NaAl(AsO4)F
• Crystal System: Monoclinic
• Mohs Scale: 5.5
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October 25, 2024 at 7:01 PM
yirara-bah.bsky.social
I never heard of either. #Wavellite looks cute and cuddly, while #Durangite is quite striking. The latter doesn't even have a wiki, which makes it interesting. But the chemical formular of the former is cooler. I'll vote for the green balls, because still angry copper didn't make it. #MinCup24
September 4, 2024 at 2:31 PM
choilu.bsky.social
Day 25 - Durangite

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December 2, 2024 at 12:28 AM
cathyw.bsky.social
Durangite contains arsenic, would not lick. Not sure about wavellite? it looks sharp if nothing else.
September 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
martinhajovsky.bsky.social
Having no pref between #Wavelite & #Durangite in #MinCup24, I’m leaning towards the rare beauty of Durangite since it’s named for Durango, Mexico & calls to mind the character “Durango” that Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) played in the Star Trek TNG ep “A Fistful of Datas.” Best reason I can think of!
September 4, 2024 at 9:01 PM
martinhajovsky.bsky.social
Red v Green. Fire v water. #Durangite v #Wavellite. Both gorgeous. Both weird. I think I’m going to have to think about this one before voting in Round 1, Match 4 of #MinCup24.
September 4, 2024 at 2:21 PM
celestelabedz.bsky.social
One of the things I like most about Min Cup is getting to learn about minerals I've never heard of before! I was unfamiliar with both wavellite and durangite before today, and would have been unlikely to have looked them up and learned about them without #MinCup24!
mineralcup.bsky.social Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Sep 4
#MinCup24 Round 1 Match 4:

It’s a battle of exotic beauties for translucent green #Wavellite vs fiery #Durangite! Both are striking, unusual, and rare.

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1...

RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2024/results...
Round 1 Match 4 — Mineral Cup
Durangite vs Wavellite
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September 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM
glacierpique.bsky.social
#Durangite is associated with hydrothermal alteration of glassy volcanic deposits.

What a striking change in chemistry to replicate the color of hot magma!

Image of flame-colored, tabular crystals from mindat.org
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Tabular crystals of flame-colored durangite cover a dark rock
September 4, 2024 at 1:08 PM
mineralcup.bsky.social
#MinCup24 Round 1 Match 4:

It’s a battle of exotic beauties for translucent green #Wavellite vs fiery #Durangite! Both are striking, unusual, and rare.

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1...

RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2024/results...
Round 1 Match 4 — Mineral Cup
Durangite vs Wavellite
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September 4, 2024 at 5:32 AM
elizabethh.bsky.social
Ok, the adorable Shai-Hulud Cyclops Owl won me over.
🦉 🪱

Team #Wavellite #MinCup24

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September 4, 2024 at 11:22 PM
minouette.bsky.social
2 rare minerals collected for their looks

Durangite is found in veins in ryolite & in pegmatite dikes through granite

Wavellite forms in fractures in aluminous metamorphic rock, in hydrothermal regions & in phosphate rock deposits. It gets the art vote for its use in cabochons & jewelry
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A sample of red crystalline durangite on a white stand against a grey background from the Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA via Mindat.org An image of a Wavellite cabochon in a gold setting against a white background. There’s a cut stone at the top. The Wavellite is various shades of yellow through green and greenish white. “This wavellite cabochon is of high quality. Some of the spheres were sliced open to show the radiating pattern, while others were left untouched. Wrapped in gold-plated wires, the cabochon weighs 150 ct, with a blue apatite mounted at the top. Photo by Tao Hsu; courtesy of Unconventional Lapidarist.” GEM NEWS INTERNATIONAL Gems & Gemology, Spring 2022, Vol. 58, No. 1
September 4, 2024 at 4:45 PM
yesmissjane.bsky.social
WAVELLITE into the NEXT ROUND!!! #MinCup24

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round 1 match 4 Durangite 356 votes Wavellite 562 votes
September 5, 2024 at 6:18 AM
kristenslater.bsky.social
Since you asked #MinCup24
Voting brackets for Mineral Cup 2024. Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup24. Matches for round 1 are 1 Kaolinite vs Abelsonite 2 Arsenuranospathite vs Corundum 3 Perovskite vs Copper 4 Durangite vs Wavellite 5 Howlite vs Whewellite 6 Ammineite vs Dioptase 7 Stibnite vs Atacamite 8 Vivianite vs Spinel 9 Rhodochrosite vs Turquoise 10 Mellite vs Omphacite 11 Quartz vs Mercury 12 Kyanite vs Ringwoodite 13 Proustite vs Titanite 14 Cacoxenite vs Charoite 15 Calcite vs Celestine 16 Topaz vs Spodumene
September 1, 2024 at 8:11 AM
redsage.bsky.social
ARGH @mineralcup.bsky.social howwww am I supposed to choose between green bulbous Wavellite and red-orange angular Durangite?? What a matchup!
September 4, 2024 at 5:43 AM
jraasch.bsky.social
time to vote … durangite or wavellite
September 4, 2024 at 5:00 AM
jraasch.bsky.social
Durangite or Wavellite?
September 4, 2024 at 4:57 AM
ahaikulife.bsky.social
Have gone in for Wavellite. Looks like I'm not the only one, that's a pretty solid lead.
Screenshot from mineralcup.org shows Sep. 4 Round 1 Match 4 Live voting tallies chart with Durangite with 262 votes and Wavellite with 392.
September 4, 2024 at 7:41 PM
comptonscatter.bsky.social
I had to vote murder rocks again.

Durangite and Old Lace
mineralcup.bsky.social Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Sep 4
#MinCup24 Round 1 Match 4:

It’s a battle of exotic beauties for translucent green #Wavellite vs fiery #Durangite! Both are striking, unusual, and rare.

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1...

RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2024/results...
Round 1 Match 4 — Mineral Cup
Durangite vs Wavellite
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September 4, 2024 at 5:06 PM