🪷 Find luck and zealous courage during tonight's darkly suspicious, scary, spooky #Scorpio #NewMoon (the #Zelus Moon in #Antinous #MoonMagic) with #azurite, #melanite #amethyst, advises crystals adviser #MartinCampbell at the #Antinoos astrology blog: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/fighting-fear-during-zelus-moon-by-our.html 🪷

🪷 Find luck and zealous courage during tonight's darkly suspicious, scary, spooky #Scorpio #NewMoon (the #Zelus Moon in #Antinous #MoonMagic) with #azurite, #melanite #amethyst, advises crystals adviser #MartinCampbell at the #Antinoos astrology blog: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/fighting-fear-during-zelus-moon-by-our.html 🪷

Time for #ferberite, #azurite, #prehnite and #elbaite

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

Beautiful #Azurite on #Malachite with serious color, luster, contrast, and focal crystal aesthetics.

Collection: The Focal Crystal
Photo ©️ FineMineralPhotography
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #Minerals #Crystals #Gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer #RockPorn

I've been eaten by a grue but this match pulled me back because #azurite my beloved,,,,

Look, #kosmochlor is a space rock, big whoop. Did you miss they've also found it terrestrially? (Is it remnants of Other Space Rock? Maybe. Shhhhh.) They buried the lede that it's a #clinopyroxene: it's a *temperature and pressure indicator*. I.e., certain formations, colors, levels of occurrence, etc etc etc, say a LOT about how hot e.g. a magma was, what other minerals and ores might be (geologically) nearby, what stressors were on these rocks over time, etc.

Clinopyroxenes are, for the most part, *scientifically* valuable rather than monetarily, aiui. (#Jadeite is a notable exception.) (#Nephrite is not even a clinopyroxine!) (Freely admit I may be wrong!)

Aaaaanyway: scientifically, yes, it's super cool. Azurite is a favorite and I gotta vote for one of my favorite copper minerals. 😂🤷🏻

(Let's be real, bar a wild upset, the space mineral will win. But azurite tho. Aaaaaaazuuuuuuriiiiiiiite.)

#MineralCup #MinCup #MinCup25

via @MineralCup

https://mastodon.social/@MineralCup/115171447997539735

You can paint with #Azurite which is good! But its a gritty pigment which better on wall or panel than on paper or parchment which is bad.

#Kosmochlor has an awesome Greek-German name which is good, but Russian Cosmism is a bit too relevant today for reasons Charlie Stross could explain which is bad. Argh. #MinCup25

Less than an hour left on the clock and #kosmochlor is leaving over #azurite by under 90 votes.

You know the drill: campaign and recruit if you want your fav to win

I’m dying here— that darn green crystal has pulled ahead of the obvious deserving winner of #Azurite for #MinCup25 @MineralCup

Is it game over? Well in US football our favorite could pull off an upset win but here I don’t know. Please vote if you haven’t!

Kosmochlor vs Azurite (planetary science edition)

How Kool is that? Kosmochloric Ca-rich pyroxenes with olivine (Kool grains) were found in dust particles collected from comet 81P/Wild by the Stardust spacecraft.

Although azurite has not been found yet on Mars, Curiosity has detected enhanced abundanced of copper at Gale crater. Azurite is usually found in oxidized zones of Cu-bearing ore deposits.

#MinCup25 #Kosmochlor #Azurite

Here’s a photo of Azurite with smaller amounts of Malachite at the Freudenstein Castle in Freiberg, Germany. Let it lull you into voting for it in Mineral Cup 2025! Only a few hours left… #MinCup25 #Azurite #Geology #Minerals https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m09

Trivia about these lovely Azurite Suns. This piece with multiple suns (that look like pyrite suns) was displayed by an anonymous collector in the Covention Center main show of the #TucsonGemMineralShow
I saw it at the bottom of a tall glass display case. I must have looked innocent but bedraggled. And poor. Unlikely to buy any of this vendor’s specimens priced $3k to $50k. When I asked permission to take the photo, there was a hesitation and once given, obvious I had to be fast. I got 4 quick as I knelt all the way on the floor. They are shown in that album from 9 years ago.

Wealthy rock collectors often never allow photographs of their top specimens in a place that could attract the attention of thieves. If you see a stunning piece at these shows this may be the last time it is ever in public. Maybe one day it will be featured in Mineralogical Record, the revered journal of geologists and collectors.

I finally got my own azurite suns specimens a few years ago, very small but intact. One day I’ll have to continue my plans of photographing all my own Precious.
#Azurite #MinCup25

Now I simply must pull out more links to my photos in Flickr for #Azurite Why, you ask? Because it’s my favorite day in voting for #MinCup25 ! And just now I checked the results so far and…and…oh no the upstart and unusual green mineral is winning for the first time! And by 40-some votes! So here is my photo for Azurite suns, a very unusual azurite formation as a flag “sun” on pure kaolin clays. When you click my link you can follow the image to link for
a magazine article of the location in Africa to Malbunk Mine and see the small group of miners there and their story.

https://flic.kr/p/E9P2Nu

@minouette Whoa those men in the painting are the very definition of the word dandy! Of course I give my vote to #Azurite for Art! And the color! Yea Antiqity! The votes are now about 1,100 with only 5 or so more hours to vote. Our mineral is only 8 votes in the lead! #MinCup25 has been getting average 1,500 votes daily. It’s a nail-biter today. Thanks for sharing your post.

@theaardvark Oh thank you for noticing it! If anyone looks at my stream today they will see my bombartments throwing #Azurite out to entice the voting in #MinCup25

Omg the voting is hot and heavy now! It’s like 638 to 632, #Azurite leading with only 5 hours or so to go!
Hey, wonder if some people post the tag #MinCup25 will that end up trending today? What say you @MineralCup https://beige.party/@cobalt123/115175113712351748

It’s jumping in heavy voting now, woohoo! #TeamAzurite is leading. But barely! How about another photo I took of azurite
#MinCup25 #Azurite

It's turning into a #MinCup25 NAIL-BITER #Kosmochlor and #azurite are still running neck-and-neck, tied exactly at 483 votes each C'mon, Team Kosmochlor, let's go!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2etgbwm2s6glwadvacxclucn/post/3lyenfkqih22a

Oh noes! Lots more votes in the last 2 hours but at least cobalt, er I mean Azurite is winning now by 4 votes, 500 to 496. C’mon everybody, go go go vote! #MinCup25 #Azurite

Ta-da! My pinned post in my stream when I migrated over to Mastodon in 2022. This was to show folks I’m the same cobalt as many years on Twitter, as cobalt123 and back further to cobalt and later cobalt please on G+.

But around 2005 I began sharing photos on Flickr where I’ve got only about 10,000 photos. Most are on my CC license if you look at my copyright terms. I saw that last night @MineralCup found and shared this post. They know I’m a fiend for #Azurite and a fan of #MinCup25
https://beige.party/@cobalt123/113371242051665338