This is worth waiting for! Enjoy your champion in all its beauty. Rhodochrosite, Mineral Cup 24 Champion.

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https://www.mineralcup.org/champion

#MinCup24 Thinking about next year’s minerals already? We are too! Nominate yours now!

https://www.mineralcup.org/nominations

Rhodochrosite has won the Mineral Cup!

Well done @mineralcup.bsky.social and congratulations to the meat rock fans! #MinCup24 was a great success as always.

Here’s my final excuse to post my Lino block print Rhodochrosite.

Next year I have a different print to suggest.

#MinCup24 Results and Update

https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/results/r5m1

Rhodochrosite first competed in Mineral Cup in 2021, where it promptly lost (very badly!) to to bright green carbonate Malachite during its very first match. Defeated, it sat out 2022, before getting a second chance to start over in 2023, where it had a solid run before being defeated by Perovskite in the Quarterfinals. This year, it took vengeance during a Semifinals rematch against Perovskite, then handily defeated Kyanite to take the 2024 Championship. continued in replies
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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!

Ihr Wisst, was ihr zu tun habt: stimmt für Kyanit!
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https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/results/r5m1

#kyanite in iconic blue and beautiful green, #MinCup24

Repost from Adriana Guatame
(@adriguatame.bsky.social):
With #kyanite I always remember this video created by Stacey Phillips via the Mineralogical Society (the LEGO stop motion science videos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tm5DrTU0W8

All my faves have been defeated so here’s your chance to convince me to vote in the finals of #MinCup24!

Shall it be Rhodochrosite so we never have to hear the chants of “meat rock” again?

Or should I vote for pretty blue Kyanite, used in ceramics, gems & as an index mineral?

Convince me.

While you’re at it, take a moment to fill out the player’s survey. Your feedback will give us lots of great information and help make Mineral Cup even better. #MinCup24

https://www.mineralcup.org/players-survey

Learn all about the good people that bring Mineral Cup to you every year, despite snafus, tons of work, and loss of sleep. Hope you’ve enjoyed every minute of it! We have! #MinCup24

https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/volunteers

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If you have any photos of our #MinCup24 finalists you want us to share on the website, drop us an email at hashtagmincup@gmail.com

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Some non #MinCup24 related mineralogy.
The discussions around calcite made me think of the database of grains in sediment from my 2023 paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47029-4).
There is this thing we tell: aragonite is more common in the #ocean in low latitudes than in high latitudes. But I can show that with my #research !
I reprocessed the data for the shelves to show how carbonate grain mineralogy changes with latitude - for the #sedimentology classroom.

#MinCup24 Vote #kyanite

Here's some more kyanite from this morning's wee walk near Uisken in Mull. Nice blue kyanite blades up to 3cm+, with some red stonecrop and lichen keeping them company.

The trail of color leading up to the #MinCup24 Grand Final...