Very proud of SydneyUniGeo PhD student, Chris Alfonso, who just published his 1st paper in GSA Bulletin! 👏 This project used spatio-temporal data mining (powered by #pyGPlates + #gplately) and machine learning to help find new porphyry copper deposits. doi.org/10.1130/B37614…

#Spodumene was first described from Utö, Stockholm County, Sweden in 1800 by Brazilian naturalist Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva. Ironically, #lithium was discovered by Johan August Arfwedson much later in 1817 in #Petalite from the same locality. #MinCup #MinCup24

Eruption of St. Helens in 1980

Our Earth Science Reviews paper on tin and lithium granite-pegmatite systems is finally out (this became a bit of a magnum opus...) sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Earth & Environmental Science, St Andrews Richard Palin Lot Koopmans Martin Mangler

The AI Georeferencer in QGIS is now publicly available 1. Aerial imagery georeferences to satellite near the QGIS map canvas 2. The full georeferencer reads coordinates, buildings, streets, PLSS, cities, and other features humans use Rotated aerial image support is coming soon

This summer, @cbeardgeo Dr Carrie Soderman Owen Weller-Gibbs headed to Greenland to investigate how #criticalmetals form in alkaline igneous rocks. Look at the cool minerals they encountered: pegmatite veins containing amphiboles, feldspars and blood-red eudialyte. #igneous #petrology

A recent image of Jupiter captured by Juno spacecraft.

Extremely beautiful mylonite we just had back from thin section production 💪

Watch these snowflake-like dendritic clinopyroxenes twinkle as this thin section is rotated in cross-polarised light!❄️☃️ This is a rare volcanic rock called komatiite, from Gorgona. Credit: Charlie Gordon. #ThinSectionTuesday #Petrology #Mineralogy

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Newly available high-resolution satellite imagery collected by Maxar reveals sections of the surface rupture near the zone of maximum surface displacement of last week’s Mw 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar. Rupture is ~500 km long, with up to 5 meters of fault slip.

Whether you're a student, a geologist, or just passionate about rocks in thin section, this is the book you’ve been waiting for! my NEW book is now available: cambridge.org/core/books/atl…

#ICYMI Bradda Head Lithium was proud to announce the Society of Economic Geologists publication by members of the Arizona Geological Survey - Univ. of Arizona in collaboration with Bradda Head, on the article titled ‘Geology, Geochemistry, and Potential Origins of the Basin

Huge specimen with numerous large #Emerald (green #Beryl variety) crystals in schist matrix from Malyshevo, Russia. #minerals #crystals #mineralcollecting #mineralexpert #rockhounding #mineralogy

This chart in mind, I don’t see any major uncoupling of Europe from China. Trade relationships should stay strong. At least until a major disruption (Taiwan?!) disturbs the peace. Source: elements.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-eu…

Norway drills the North Sea & gets richer. Britain bans drilling, taxes the industry to death, sacks 1,000 workers a month, then buys the same oil & gas from Norway. Same seabed. Same reservoirs. It’s the dumbest act of economic self-harm imaginable. archive.is/olBvb