How #Amazing Twin Stacked Crystals of Botryoidal #Fluorites on #Amethyst.

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Fantastic deep blue #Fluorite crystal on #Quartz From Siero, Asturias, #Spain
Size: 7 x 7 cm.

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Gorgeous #Calcite with #Fluorite and #Quartz From Yaogangxian Mine, Hunan Province, #China..(HWD): 7 X 5 X 3.5 cm

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Amazing #Tourmaline with #Cleavelandite and# Quartz from Transbaikalia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.(HWD): 12 x 8.5 x 6 cm

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#Fluorite with #Calcite from Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, llinois, #USA.
S:55x87х66тт

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Marvelous composition of #Fluorite and #Quartz from Cuetu l'Aspa, Berbes mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, #Spain. The fluorite cubes display fine deep purple zonation with great shaprness and lustre. 59x19x19mm.

Photo and collection Laszlo Kupi
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Amazing #Fluorite with #Pyrite and #Quartz Hunan Province, #China.

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A spectacularly preserved soft-shelled turtle and fish fossil - frozen in time 50 million years ago From Green River
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8th March 1506, Albrecht Dürer discovers the difficulties of appraising gems.
https://archive.org/details/durersrecordofjo0000dure/page/10/mode/2up
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China has a ‘chokehold’ on the rare earth supply chain. Could Australia offer an alternative?

They sound like the names of characters in a science fiction blockbuster: Neodymium, Praseodymium, Dysprosium and Terbium. In…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/126013/

China has a ‘chokehold’ on the rare earth supply chain. Could Australia offer an alternative? https://www.byteseu.com/1383542/ #Australia #China #Minerals #mining #RareEarths #trade #TradeWar

'Biomining' seaweed explored for critical minerals to improve domestic supply chains

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-biomining-seaweed-explored-critical-minerals.html

Pretty blue Kyanite is used in porcelain(though more dishware/plumbing than art) but it is used in jewelry. Points for physics as an index mineral.
But topaz wins the art vote with centuries of gems, carving & jewelry. Plus on the physics front we have its use in lens & xray spectroscopy #MinCup25

Vote for topaz here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m13

Ryugu asteroid research reveals mineral history predating any on Earth

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-ryugu-asteroid-reveals-mineral-history.html

Siliceous Schistus, Hone-Stone, or Novaculite (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

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European Gas Steady as Traders Mull Middle East Tension, Ukraine https://www.bocvip.com/1016608/european-gas-steady-as-traders-mull-middle-east-tension-ukraine/ #conflict #crimea #CriticalMinerals #DavidGura #Donbas #energy #Europe #EuropeGasPrices #gas #government #infrastructure #JonathanMaxwell #Minerals #Mining #NaturalGas #oil #putin #Russia #TomKeene #trump #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskiy #war

Here’s a photo of Azurite with smaller amounts of Malachite at the Freudenstein Castle in Freiberg, Germany. Let it lull you into voting for it in Mineral Cup 2025! Only a few hours left… #MinCup25 #Azurite #Geology #Minerals https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m09

In honor of #MinCup25 I walked into the friendliest little mineral shop I have ever been to (hello, #Pécs!). After a lovely chat and lots of shinies I walked out with a universite medal. Universite is a fancy fantasy name for a local mix of agate, jasper and chalcedony. Pretty!

Ore Formation Processes, Part Two: Hydrothermal Boogaloo - There’s a saying in mine country, the kind that sometimes shows up on bumper stick... - https://hackaday.com/2025/09/08/ore-formation-processes-part-two-hydrothermal-boogaloo/ #hackadaycolumns #earthscience #minerals #science #ore

Argillaceous Iron Ore (*Ferrum argillaceum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

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