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Old Mine Cut - Celebrating a Kelce-Swift engagement

Old Mine Cut - Celebrating a Kelce-Swift engagement

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Watch this on 1.5x to be prepared for talking geo with your students tomorrow. Gemology of Taylor’s new 8 carat diamond. youtube.com/watch?v=JGCMl_0V…
Old Mine Cut - Celebrating a Kelce-Swift engagement

Old Mine Cut - Celebrating a Kelce-Swift engagement

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Found a pegmatite puzzle piece garnet
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As gem and mineral curator I’ve learned much about getting specimens on display in geology departments. If you want advice on purchasing and ideas let me know. I’d love to use what I’ve fought to learn help other departments level up. Email me at utexas.edu
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Columnar basalts are a personal favorite. But collecting the perfect specimen remains elusive.
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BA collecting the penultimate Laki lava crust sample
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Iridescent Strombolian fall, reticulite, and the Laki team.
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UT PhD student Abby working the Laki lavas and fall deposits.
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congrats to JT for publishing on his drone infrared system, and the incredible career he has built. James built a mini TIR system that can be built cheap, the designs are free. Accessible to scientists in first world and developing nations! jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.php…
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Texas Global@UTexasGlobal27 May 2025
🌾 @txgeosciences Alum Jake Jordan (Ph.D. ’17) led his team @mati_carbon to a $50M @XPRIZE win by using volcanic rock dust to pull CO₂ from the air and boost crop yields. Their solution is transforming farming and giving the world a breath of fresh air: utx.global/4392OSj.
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Trucking around Yellowstone
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Our Hamman Gem & Mineral Gallery just got even more dazzling!❇️Learn more about the 40 world-class Mexican ore minerals that make up our new Long Collection: jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/03/…
Azurite

ALT Azurite

Malachite

ALT Malachite

Azurite

ALT Azurite

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New Shimadzu electron microprobe on Day 1 being open for business in the E-beam Lab at the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT-Austin.
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Tucson 2025 thread. A great place for geologists to visit. My haul from Day 1. Check out the gradation from granite to graphic granite to amazonite peg. Other specimens are Norway zircons and Mexican Laguna agates.
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Day 2 purchases are garnets, corundum, andalusite, and pyrite all with rock matrix. And a nice little twinned feldspar
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Finished off the show with general specimens for the department, slabs of petrified trunks, ammonites, and labradorite. 2 new Target suitcases later weighed in at 101.5 lbs at check in… just light enough to fly home. I recommend geos try the show.
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For your teaching collection. Malachite after azurite, Millpillas, Mexico
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It can’t be that good or you’d be breaking your embargoes.
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