Zircanis, a new enigmatic living mineral species from the Adamello Batholith 🪨🐕 Credits: Silvia Favaro (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) 📷 Plinius 50/24 photo contest #MineralMonday

CONFERENCE LEAGUE WINNERS! 🏆 #CFC | #UECLFinal

CHELSEA CHAMPIONS.

A tiny ESA_ExoMars capsule rockets off at 4000 km per hour to simulate the aerodynamics of a Mars descent. This supersonic test happened in the blink of an eye, captured here in slow motion. Shooting for a Mars landing: blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-ba… 📸: ISL

The cost of smelting copper in China is now -$45 a ton. This is historically very unusual. Mining companies normally pay to have their metals processed, now they get paid. Hard to see how countries that plan to become wealthier by processing metals can compete with this.

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by U.S. National Science Foundation–DOE Office of Science Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess what regions of sky they are? This is just a peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! ls.st/rubin-first-lo…

Meet your new cosmic neighbors ☄️ Introducing a swarm of over 2100 asteroids discovered by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! Rubin discovered these asteroids in about 10.5 hours across 7 nights. They've never been seen by humanity before...until now. youtu.be/DTuq-vBsDJE

A never-before-seen planet! 🪐 This is Webb’s first discovery of a planet using direct imaging. With a mass similar to Saturn, it’s also the lightest exoplanet yet seen using this technique! go.nasa.gov/4kW9Gc2

11.9 Light-years from home. 6th grade science teacher. 1 chance to save us all. Watch the trailer for Project Hail Mary – based on the novel by Andy Weir, starring Ryan Gosling, and directed by filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Only in theaters and IMAX - 3.20.26

A Jewish family in Hadejia, Jigawa c1925. There are numerous accounts of Jewish migration to the Sahel, including Yemeni Jews captured by the Abyssinians in c600 settling at Gao, Egyptian Jews reaching Mali via the Sahel corridor in c1400 and Berber Jews arriving from Morocco.

FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP WINNERS!!! 🏆

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 2 is underway! It’s dark & dramatic #Stibonite vs fluffy & adorable #Okenite. Kohl or cottonball? VOTE: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m02 Check results: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r…

The electrolytic smelting of aluminium from aluminium oxide is ferociously energy intensive. One of the biggest smelters, Bahrain's Alba, has a power demand about the same as the city of London, and bigger than some countries.

American Mineralogist: Nanoscale Insights into Weathering of Ti-Bearing Minerals and Heterogeneous Crystal Growth Mechanisms of Ti nano minerals in Altered Volcanic Ash Chen Liu, Qian Fang, Hanlie Hong, Lulu Zhao, Yanling Yang, Shuling Chen doi.org/10.2138/am-202…

Amazing free resource created by the ICMM: a global dataset of mining and processing sites that can be integrated with Google Maps! Download here: icmm.com/en-gb/research…

⭐️ FASTEST LAP IN F1 HISTORY ⭐️ #F1 #ItalianGP

BREAKING: Miners Anglo American and Teck Resources merge in a zero premium deal, creating one of the world's top copper producers. "Anglo Teck" will relocate its headquarter from London to Vancouver. But it will retain the primary listing in the UK.

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#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 15 - It's a mineral found mostly in the farthest reaches of space vs one so common an exhaustive list of localities is nigh impossible as alloy #taenite faces off against clay #nontronite. Vote: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m15 Results: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r…

MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS THE AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX!!! 🤩 That’s back-to-back wins for the Oracle Red Bull Racing driver 🏆🏆 #F1 #AzerbaijanGP