Multi-tasking at its best… looking at the fate of tellurium in contaminated soils using the European synchrotron in Grenoble, keeping in touch with footy, all from the safety of our lockdown in Melbourne! Makes for interesting logbook… Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 European Synchrotron

Xocolatlite (doi.org/10.2138/am.200…) in the news! Tellurium is a highlight of a current exhibition in Paris combining mineralogy, science, and anthropology. Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 Owen Missen shall rejoice! La minéralogie mexicaine à Paris lemonde.fr/sciences/artic… via Le Monde

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Ocean worlds are the way to go! "Volatile-rich Earth-like planets lacking exposed continents could develop robust biospheres capable of sustaining remotely detectable atmospheric biosignatures". rh.gatech.edu/news/650035/oc… Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 Australian Synchrotron Dr. Drew Syverson

No need for a supply crunch if we can realise more of the tellurium that’s in current material flows from mine to smelter or refiner or is within gold processing circuits already… might have given a talk about this yesterday 😉

Congratulations to Owen for starting the year with a bang! Tellurium is a critical mineral used in solar panels; a unique Mexican ore deposit reveals how microbes and chemistry team up to liberate tellurium into the landscape. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.… Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 Owen Missen

A story of tellurium, microbes and biogeochemical cycling! We asked the question: Does tellurium (Te) have a biogeochemical cycle in Nature? Please click here to see our published study in GCA, including PDF copy until mid March! authors.elsevier.com/a/1eT%7ET3p4ZM… Thread 1/8

Congratulations to Owen Missen for receiving an offer for a postgraduate publication award from Monash University Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 Love is in the Earth! doi.org/10.1016/j.ears…

'Goldilocks effect of fluorine and chlorine in albitisation' Best title for a paper I've seen in a while! The albitisation rate has a 'sweet spot' Cl/(Cl + F) ratio, i.e. the ratio must be 'just right'! Well done to Gan Duan, Joel Brugger and team! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thermodynamics is a fascinating and incredibly useful field to understand our planet, but can indeed be challenging... 'Approach the subject cautiously'... Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 Dr. Simon Jowitt

Culmination of many years of tough experiments about the geochemistry of rare earth elements published on Friday in Nat. Comm. doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Collaborations across continents, big machines, and new chemistry - yeah! Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 European Synchrotron @ShoutLouvel

Check the Conversation piece for our new paper doi.org/10.1038/s41467…: Powerful X-rays reveal the birth of giant rare earth element deposits – and may give clues for sustainable mining theconversation.com/powerful-x-ray… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃

Thanks so much to Mischa Crumbach for providing a wonderful picture of a rare earth element mineral from the Alps to illustrate our Conversation paper on the formation of REE deposits! Collectors are real heroes! Owen Missen Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃

Congrats to Qiushi and our French-Australian team for revealing some of the secrets of REE transport in Geofluids! doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.… Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 @ShoutLouvel European Synchrotron

Lovely lowland copperhead in the Dandenong Wetlands next to our home today. Enjoy the last warm days dude!

Congrats to Yanlu Xing for his latest GCA paper - neat experiments simulating the behaviour of zinc in deep sea 'black smoker' systems Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 authors.elsevier.com/c/1esDx3p4ZQfHz

Professorial activity for the week-end - get some heavy minerals for demonstrating provenance studies in lectures. The gold was a nice addition! Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃

Love science - great to be able to apply our expertise in synchrotron geosciences to help design energy-saving glasses. authors.elsevier.com/c/1exzr~2-F7YXK @GeoloJess_ Australian Synchrotron Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃

Gee, miro astore's article really hit a nerve. Thanks for such a clear exposé. Good luck, and thanks for all the fish! smh.com.au/education/aust…