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https://www.alojapan.com/1382985/indian-pm-tours-chip-making-equipment-plant-in-japan-correct/ Indian PM Tours Chip-Making Equipment Plant in Japan (Correct) #ArtificialIntelligence #CustomsDuties #JapanTours #minerals #RenewableEnergy #tours Indian Prime Minister Narendra Moditoured a chip-making equipment factory in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, a day after he and his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba pledged deeper ties as US tariffs hit the global economy. “We hope to work together to strengthen the semiconductor supply

Bill Minarik 17h ago

Fernando Salvaterra on BlueSky(@salvaterra.bsky.social) posted sketches of all 32 minerals competing in this year's Mineral Cup.

#MinCup25 #Minerals

Bill Minarik 1d ago

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

Ele Willoughby, PhD 1d ago

While 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:

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01

#scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #tugtupite

Claudia Zahn 2d ago

Les trilobites ont existé pendant près de 300 million d’années, du début du Cambrien – époque de l’apparition de la vie animale complexe sur Terre – jusqu’à la fin du Permien. Ce Gabriceraurus ordovicien de 15,2 cm de long a été découvert au Québec dans les années 1980 et n’a été préparé que récemment.
Photo: American Museum of Natural History
By Claude Beaumont
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #Minerals #Crystals #Gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer #RockPorn

Ele Willoughby, PhD 2d ago

A tough call for the #MinCup25 semi-final but I think I have to give dioptase the arts vote as a pigment since ancient times (i.e. on Neolithic sculpture, Asian murals & Russian icons), though ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent, tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points from me.

Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

#scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals

toiida🌻2d ago

#emotions #gradient #azure #azurite #colours #minerals #pigments #scipop #archaeology #Antiquity #scinews #news

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Elysia Macht 3d ago

Rhodochrosite's "Meat rock" Mineral Cup victory last year necessitates two vegetable wins! Why? So we get our MEAT & TWO VEG! 😁

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

Eat your veg! Greens are good for you! You wouldn't eat Rudolph, and blood products are icky, whether reindeer's or other blood. Vote for #ForbiddenBroccoli, baked in #ForbiddenPie! 🥦 🥧

#MinCup25 #Dioptase *CROMCH*

More photos in the post above and the cup tags. Please vote before midnight UK time, or within the next 18,5 hours, and thank you to Desert Queen voters!

You can read more about dioptase also here:
https://geologyscience.com/minerals/silicates-minerals/dioptase/

#Rhodochrosite #Malachite #MeatAndTwoVeg #Veg #Vegetable #Crystal #Rock #Minerals #Forbidden