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correction from earlier post (about semi final 2 still!), it's native copper vs molybdenite in the final! easier one for me, much as I love copper minerals I'll go with the soft sulfide!

quick game's a good game and it's already the Ore Cup final!
very hard one to pick for me!
both beautiful and important sulfide minerals 🥰🥰

correct prediction! we'll see if molybdenite can make it to the final!

We’re on team #molybdenite in today’s #OreCup match-up. It’s the main ore of molybdenum, a critical resource with many uses, including in building renewable energy technologies. eos.org/features/cri...

Molybdenite—love those hex shapes, and love this particular speciman’s mix of symmetry and asymmetry. www.mindat.org/photo-298205...

We didn’t always recognize #Molybdenite or know how to use Mo until the late 19th Century. Rh wasn’t discovered until 1908. After early experiments during WWI, automobile and aviation industries found uses for both elements in high-performance alloys. Then catalysts and medical uses.
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Copper has my heart.

Bracket updated with copper progressing as one of two finalists, the other yet-undetermined

Bar chart with Copper winning by 281 votes to ilmenite’s 160 votes.

Congratulations to #Copper on a winning by a decisive 27% margin. Whatever happens in the Finals, you won’t be going home with bronze.

Condolences, #Ilmenite, but we’re confident you’ll weather this setback with your usual resilience.

Results for Semifinals Match 2 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup Live results for Molybdenite vs Bornite

#OreCup R2M2: It's slippery and silvery #Molybdenite vs peacock rock #Bornite! Are you supporting the only molybdenum (and rhenium) ore, or the hefty copper sulphide?

vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

Based on the spelling of Carroll, more like:

How doth the little mineral
Improve its shining face,
And hide the cobalt underground,
An inconvenient place!

#OreCup
tis the season!
anyone want to write a ... Carroll?
O Cobalt Ye Faithful 😅

cristaux brillants de carrollite métallique

Carrollite, Japon

youtu.be/a_z5HVAkAWk

#carrollite #sulfur #quartz #unique #cristaux #cristal #crystals #mineralogie #mineraux #minerai #gemmes #gems #collection #naturae #lapides #minerals #nature #merveille #cristallisation #collector

www.youtube.com/@naturaelapi...

I have to endorse #Carrollite today—copper PLUS cobalt!

1st I love cobalt blue
2nd cobalt comes from kobold, the German name for an imp or demon, so named bc it made recovery of silver (from ores where they mixed) more difficult to recover.

(Yes that’s where D&D got it.)

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Kamoya South II Mine, Kamoya, Kambove, Kambove Territory, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo

#carrollite pretty 😍

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www.mindat.org/gm/911

A screen shot from James Rada, Jr.'s article on Carroll Co., Maryland and carrollite. Has a nice photo of carrollite, not from Maryland (the local samples are not photogenic).

Nice article on the type locality of #carrollite : Carroll County, Maryland and the Patapsco Mine.

https://jamesrada.com/carrollite-the-mineral-once-found-only-in-carroll-county/

#OreCup #OreCup25 #MinCup25 #Maryland #Sykesville #Cobalt

#Carrollite from Congo at the Tucson show #OreCup #MineralMonday

Octahedral crystals, polysynthetic twinning striations, super conductivity, and iridescent sheen? Yes, please. #carrollite

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Thermodynamic properties and superconductivity of natural carrollite (CuCo2S4) The thermodynamic properties of natural carrollite with a formula Cu0.92Co2.07S4 are studied using low temperature heat capacity and high temperature …

was planning on voting for bornite until reading that natural specimens of carrollite exhibit superconductivity 😎

I’m voting for the only Co ore in the Ore Cup, the superconductor mineral #Carrollite. Co serves many industrial, medical, and artistic applications, from battery and magnet technology, to radiotherapy, to glass and ceramic glaze coloring agent.
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voting carrollite for the cobalt content, but this will be a tough one to win facing off against bornite!

the jadarite deposit is a flashpoint for critical mineral economics and environmental geology. the reality is that if lithium isn't mined in one place, it will be sourced elsewhere with no guarantee of improved protections in a different part of the world - always a complicated issue!

Want to know more about jadarite? Read our #AllMineralsConsidered piece: rdcu.be/eOojc

Lithium beats Alzheimer’s (which I knew but forgot…)!!

Vote #Jadarite in today’s #OreCup match!

A short press release from June about #Jadarite.

I think it has my vote. I'm not normally a fan of complicated recipes, but with only one known source? Awww. It might be lonely.

www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office...

jadarite needs some votes! it has all the elements mentioned in the formula of kryptonite, but couldn't be called that as krypton itself is an unreactive gas!

#OreCup R1M3: It’s a battle of black and white as titanium ore #Ilmenite is pitted against lithium and boron ore #Jadarite.

vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
results:

My #scicomm win for the day? Writing a mostly-coherent definition of mineral subgroups without lies of oversimplification or ending up deep in the weeds.

I hope.

I am called out.

But in my defence, the adjectives for describing the texture of a mineral so slippery that it’s one of the best lubricants on the planet veer into nsfw or at least giggle-inducing territory very quickly.

a reason to vote for galena in #OreCup!

For once I have both mins in my collection! (Ignore the fur-covered cat tree.)

1/3 of my cats posed for photos. They all received treats after the grueling sitting next to a mineral. Copper-hued Hugs is MVP, Obsidian sort of posed, and Leia did her own thing.

#OreCup #MinCup #Copper