Bill MinarikAnd here are color versions of the 32 minerals in #MinCup25 placed on the bracket.
Winner #Kyanite, runner up #Tugtupite
Drawings by Fernando Salvaterra on BlueSky(@salvaterra.bsky.social)
Mineral Cup & Ore CupWe have a #MinCup25 champion!!
Congratulations, #Kyanite!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025
After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right?
Amazing first run, #Tugtupite, and better luck next year.
PurpleJillybeans 
If you haven't voted in the #MinCup25 final yet, my glowy friend #tugtupite needs votes! 2 hours to go!
The Montreal Gem and Mineral Show is happening at the end of the month in the main convention center (Le Palais des Congrès).
No guarantee of fantastic #Tugtupite or #Kyanite samples, but many others for sure. There's always a good representation of Canadian and Quebec localities.
#MinCup25 #Montreal #Quebec #Canada #MontSaintHilaire #Grenville #Minerals
Alkali-Nuts is a website devoted to the 400+ minerals found at Mont Saint-Hilaire, including #Tugtupite
Ele Willoughby, PhDWhile blue kyanite is used in jewelry, porcelain & pottery glazes, plus gets physics points as an index mineral, it’s the extraordinary ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” which is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points for me. #MinCup25
Vote tugtupite in the Mineral Cup 2025 finale here:
Christina RiesenweberIt's time for the finale!! Vote for #tugtupite and its reindeer blood beauty in this year's @MineralCup #MinCup25: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01
#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, victory and heartbreak, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.
Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01
Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/results/r5m01
Elysia Macht#Dioptase is an amazing colour-changing pleochroic goddess of a queen that looks as stunning as #Tugtupite - or more so.
She well deserves a crown in #MinCup25!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote
An international 'crystal water' stone of mystery, it also went by the names of #achrite, #emeraudine, copper emerald or #kirghisite 🥷 👑
An amazing looking explosion of a starburst of a flower shape, The centre a turquoise colour, and the edges of the "blades" or petals of the flower in darker blueish violet colour, behind it darker still.
The lowest part white with flecks of yellow or gold, so it reminds you of space with its haze making for the starburst thought.
Very dark green lustrous dioptase crystals that look almost black. This is a night queen that sparkles. And makes for sparks if you heat it up, being pyroelectric AND phleochroic, changing colour depending on how you look at it.
#CopperSilicate (CuSiO3·H2O). Its lustre is vitreous, glass-like, to sub-adamantine, so talking Wolverine shit here, folks. 😅
With 5.5 hours remaining to vote, #Tugtupite has the lead by under 40 votes over #Dioptase.
Campaign for your fav and recruit new players to pick which mineral will compete in the #MinCup25 finals against #Kyanite!