Claudia Zahn @Adrenochrome
has posted some astounding photos of #Wavellite over the last year. Below are two, but search the hashtag to see the whole collection!
#wavellite
I maintain that this is a rude matchup. Ruuuuude. I'm gonna delay my vote til morning - someone poke me in like 10 hours or something - but also I need a cute bit of #wavellite for reasons of "gimme rocks pls thx".
via @MineralCup
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 10: It’s a green, green world for kiwi #Wavellite vs desert emerald #Dioptase.
Will it be revenge or a repeat in this rematch of the 2024 quarterfinals?
VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m10
Check results: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/results/r1m10
#Dioptase vs #wavellite is not fair this early in the bracket 💀
But 👀👀 that's a whole lot of minerals I'm not familiar with this year! Time to get started on doing some looking up and picking my faves - and deciding what merits I'm voting on this year. 🤣🤣
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Look At This Incredible Arkansas #Wavellite.
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By #GeologyWonders
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#Wavellite crystals #Arkansas #USA
Aluminum basic phosphate mineral with the formula Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH,F)₃·5H₂O, typically appearing in green to yellowish-green hues.
It was named in 1805 by William Babington in honor of Dr. William Wavell, a Devon-based physician and naturalist.
Wavellite commonly forms in fractures of aluminous metamorphic rocks.
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Stunning Green/Blue Radial #Wavellite from Garland County, Arkansas, #USA.
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Stunning Green/Blue Radial #Wavellite from Garland County, Arkansas, #USA.
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Congratulations, #Dioptase Your exotic desert beauty and rich emerald green have clinched the win. Farewell #Wavellite. We await the return of the charming kiwi mineral next year.
As of this round of the #mincup24 vote, I chose #Dioptase over #Wavellite since I own more specimens (obviously, I bought more because I loved it more, for the emerald color and its variety of localities). :blobcatgooglytrash:
Pic1. Mindouli, R. Congo
Pic2. Tsumeb, Namibia
Pic3. Christmas Mine, AZ, USA
Pic4. Kaokoveld, Namibia
#MinCup24 wavellite vs dioptase
Hmmm. Two minerals I've never actually collected. Nice wavellite occurs in a few places in southern British Isles: Cornwall, Devon, Wales, and southern Ireland especially. Here's some gorgeous Welsh wavellite, from the great mineralogy of Wales web resource put together by my pals at the mineralogy department of National Museum of Wales, completely closed by management this spring. 🤬 😭 I'm voting wavellite for them. #Cymru #Wales #Wavellite @MineralCup
O no what a match-up. Alas for #wavellite, lovely kiwi mineral, arbitrary choice to vote for the one in my collection has me voting for #dioptase. (I think this might be the furthest in dioptase has gotten in the years I've been playing! 👀 ... now watch I just jinxed it. 😆) #MinCup24
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#MinCup24 R3M2: #Wavellite versus #Dioptase
Wavellite is the kiwi of the mineral world, a rare phosphate mineral with a charming appearance.
Dioptase’s exotic desert beauty and rich emerald green are always ready for their close-up.
Which green will you choose?
VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r3m2
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This Killer #Wavellite Specimen...This is so beautiful 💚
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Congratulations #wavellite! Your soft translucent green and your radial shapes have us seeing starbursts. Farewell to #corundum, the ancient mineral that condenses from solar nebulae, will be back.
A) that's SO close right now; #wavellite in the lead by 3 votes. B) I perhaps shouldn't vote at 5am but also when am I not tired anymore?? ("Hmmm wavellite looks like a weird kiwi.... I like that." 😅🤣🤣🤣) #MinCup24
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#Wavellite is a more unusual gemstone, a soft translucent green mineral. The crystals form as bubbly crusts, precipitating in watery cracks, and even as stalactites. Its radiating spheres can form fascinating starbursts or cats-eyes when the glittery clusters are broken open. It, too, can fluoresce under UV light. The intensity of green is related to the trace vanadium within the crystals, varying from emerald or lime green all the way to white or even colourless.
#MinCup24 R2M2: #Corundum vs #Wavellite
It's time to pick your gem!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r2m2
For #MinCup24 (hosted by @MineralCup) today we see #Durangite competing against #Wavellite... I'm going with #TeamDurangite on that one, mainly because of the incredible reddish hues of the crystal. And the arsenic. And the pleochroism.
What do you think?
Vote here! https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1m04
PS: looks like tomorrow's bracket will see a really special entry, the #Whewellite... Probably won't vote for that one...
Interesting match up - they're both classed as phosphates/arsenates/vanadates, one hydrous phosphate ( #wavellite), one anhydrous arsenate ( #durangite); both have fun crystal habit (when they accrue that far); both seem to be rare...
But wavellite has the more interesting chemical structure, and also I'm surprised it doesn't have arsenic OR something nastier, given the crystal structure mindat shows it likes... before it MAYBE goes all clusters of blobs. (I'd usually say botryoidal but mindat says the inside structure is still very sprays of crystal which is cooooooool but not very botryoid-formation.)
I think it's obvious how I'm voting, don't you? Lol. #MinCup24
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