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jolyon.bsky.social
Pebble Enthusiast, mindat.org founder and maintainer. Twitter Refugee. He/him
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Is Galen Erso working at SpaceX?

you.regettingold.com This site absolutely gets worse every time you come back to it. #sorrynotsorry

My* mindat paper is published in American Mineralogist! I feel almost like a real scientist. Now I need to beg for views and citations like some kind of Youtube influencer. Yay. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/ar... * Other co-authors may exist.

Antique stall in Tirana, Albania. No translation necessary

And I'm now in Albania, a place I've always wanted to visit. Enjoying it thoroughly.

Melanterite stalactite, from the 10th level of the Trepça mine in Kosovo. Amazing visit yesterday.

Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!

Have obtained these two specimens for my good friend Kerry, who needs them for reasons

It's almost time for the greatest mineral event of the year.

Big Fukang Meteorite (and @getpseudoed.bsky.social )

I look after a large list of holes.

Vibe for 2025

Everything on one chart. Mass vs Radius. Lineweaver, Charles H., Patel, Vihan M. (2023) All objects and some questions. American Journal of Physics, 91 (10). 819-825 doi:10.1119/5.0150209 pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

That, kids, is how you do a headline.

So I was given this old trophy that had a rock on it, and turns out it's a piece of "platinum-rich"* ore from the Merensky Reef, South Africa. Some nice visible chromite and sulfides (pentlandite/pyrrhotite?) along with the usual silicate gunk. * Everything is relative.