#MINCUP24
So this resembles #Mincup24 finale....
Watercolors.

Utah's Great Salt Lake hold beauty only revealed from above. Here, a lone, inaccessible road separates two bodies of water with dramatically different colors.
October 1, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Results for MinCup24 Finals — Mineral Cup
Rhodochrosite vs Kyanite
www.mineralcup.org
October 2, 2024 at 5:54 AM
A tiny mineral for #MineralMonday. It's a ~2 mm quartz crystal in a druse that is displayed on my shelf. ⚒️🧪
September 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM
#MinCup24 is coming…
Last year, polls started/ended at 00:00 GMT.

Keep it the same, shift to 08:00 GMT, shift to 12:00 GMT (08:00 eastern NAm)?
August 30, 2024 at 12:06 AM
And the winner is…. #MinCup24
#MinCup24

⚒️🧪🖖🏼 geology #WomenInStem

After a hard-fought, record-breaking battle, the winner of Mineral Cup 2024 is Rhodochrosite! The light-hearted campaign brought home the bacon, and it couldn’t have been more tasty. Kudos to #TeamKyanite; well done! More to follow this post.
October 2, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Oh, right, hashtags.

#MinCup24 #Kyanite
Honestly I'm just happy that the lovely pressure-indicating metamorphic mineral made it to the finals. (Sedimentary and igneous rocks are so much more accessible, but I love those weird squishy deep rocks.)
October 1, 2024 at 1:31 PM
It's time for #MinCup24!
#MinCup24 ROUND 1 MATCH 1: Kaolinite vs Abelsonite
www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1...

It’s the many-times-returning classic clay going against a quirky newcomer of mysterious origins. Go on, learn, share, & VOTE!
Round 1 Match 1 — Mineral Cup
Kaolinite vs Abelsonite
www.mineralcup.org
September 2, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Y’all that was so fun thank you for humoring me and joining me in bringing a little much needed silliness to the world.

#mincup24 #rhodochrosite
October 2, 2024 at 5:34 AM
On Sunday, it's #MinCup24 time 💎🤗
August 30, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Spot the #mincup24 winner in my minerals calendar! ⚒️
October 2, 2024 at 12:51 AM
September 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Kyanite is the only valid choice!
#MinCup24
#MinCup24 R5M1: #Rhodochrosite versus #Kyanite

Rhodochrosite, aka Rosa del Inca & Raspberry Spar is a distinctive pink-to-red carbonate that is a mix of utility and charm. Kyanite, while famous for being blue, can be a wide variety of colours, often zoned & sometimes pleochroic.

VOTE:

⚒️🧪 geology
Vote in Mineral Cup 2024 FINALS — Mineral Cup
Rhodochrosite vs Kyanite
www.mineralcup.org
October 1, 2024 at 8:07 AM
#MinCup24 Tomorrow’s Plan 👇🏼
#MinCup24

We will meet you here at 6:00 GMT tomorrow. This will give us more time to collect your victory posts and comments. We salute your passion for the minerals and your willingness to campaign. We hope you had as much fun as we did! Next year will be even more exciting. Stay tuned!
October 2, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Is it a deli case? No! It's a pile of Rhodochrosite!

THE OBVIOUS VOTE TO WIN THE #MINCUP24

www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r5m1
October 1, 2024 at 5:19 AM
OH NO KYANITE IS CATCHING UP

DONT GET COMPLACENT WE CANT LET MEAT ROCK LOSE THE FINAL ROUND!

www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r5m1

#mincup24
October 1, 2024 at 9:50 PM
For those of us missing #MinCup24 here's #GuessTheGem 🧪⚒️ bsky.app/profile/ande...
Guess the Gem time!! What mineral, group, or variety do you think this gem is? Hint: though this one is from Sri Lanka, famous ones come from Quebec. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎
November 5, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Freddie Mercury and David Bowie would have voted Kyanite Under Pressure ⚒️
October 1, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Perovskite is found just west of Montreal in the Oka Complex; Carbonate-rich, silica-poor magma emplaced in the Cretaceous. The site was mined for niobium in the 1960's and 1970's -it's also enriched in REEs and thorium.

There’s more about perovsite at Oka on […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]
September 29, 2024 at 5:37 PM
IT IS TIME. VOTE BACON ROCK! 🥓

#MinCup24
OH NO KYANITE IS CATCHING UP

DONT GET COMPLACENT WE CANT LET MEAT ROCK LOSE THE FINAL ROUND!

www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r5m1

#mincup24
October 1, 2024 at 9:59 PM
A cute quartz “inclusion” for #Caturday ❤️ #MinCup24 #Quartz
September 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
#MinCup24 fans, you're gonna love this
Oh hell yeah time to post the Food Rocks
September 29, 2024 at 11:51 AM
One last rallying cry before calling it a night: vote Meat Rock for #MinCup24 champion! #rhodochrosite
Is it a deli case? No! It's a pile of Rhodochrosite!

THE OBVIOUS VOTE TO WIN THE #MINCUP24

www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r5m1
October 1, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Vote for perovskite!

#mincup24
September 30, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Rhodochrosite AKA Meat Rock...

It won the ‪Mineral Cup #MinCup24‬
November 19, 2024 at 2:06 AM