From James Sowerby's British Mineralogy (1802–1817).

Despite his scientific leanings, Sowerby was first and foremost an artist, adept in describing and demonstrating how complex questions of perspective, scale, and color functioned in individual objects: https://t.co/XkaM3kcLQJ

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tenéis algún mineral para topacio? 👉🏻👈🏻 https://t.co/loPlSJj4gh

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The Crawford and Barber cups, found together in a Roman tomb in ancient Cilicia (modern Turkey) dating to 50-100 AD. Both are made of rare fluorspar (latin. "murra"), a mineral highly prized by wealthy Romans - Pliny wrote that Nero paid a million sesterces for one fluorspar cup.

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And we're live! ☀️🌻☀️ The vanishing/evaporating, re-emerging, memory-in-reverse--Moon-mineral piece has taken flight. This auction ends on March 09 at 2PM EST. 1◎reserve. 0.5◎ticks. 5 min gaps w 15% min increase/end phase https://t.co/KzoYnBAfEj

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Our scientists study shells, pollen, diatoms, marine worms, plants, mosses, seaweeds, fossils, minerals

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Alright frens ☀️🌞☀️ Mystical minerals and memories in reverse. In 23 hours we kick off a 24 h odyssey to find a new home for this piece 'Moon Worship' on LFG! 💗🌛💗 2PM EST. 1 ◎Reserve. 0.5 ◎ Ticks. 5 min time increase/15%. https://t.co/KzoYnBiEML

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These guys work for the corrupt mining company H.G.M (Hollow Geo Mining). They explore caves to gather precious minerals and resources, but they do more than that. They also defend the surface from a huge underground threat that not even Sonic or Eggman know about.

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My first piece as contributing editor for is up! I had a great time writing about James Sowerby's 1802-17 British Mineralogy, a gorgeous and fascinating text from one of my favorite scientific illustrators.

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Map of Mineral v24b,
Equirectangular projection / globe screenshots,
It's still not finished, there's a lot of details left to work out, then of course actually filling in the map. But this is where we will leave it for now.
more projections in reply 1/4

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i desperately want more friends… im a young adult, im a furry, im queer, im an artist and creative, i collect crystals/minerals and bones, and im a general animal lover! heres some of my art,, first is a self portrait and the others are my fursona.

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I will be starting Friends of Mineral Town on the channel this Friday! Every Friday is Farm Time Friday!

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New Mineral Deposits

Generative AI artwork - color enhanced and upscaled.

10 editions @ 0.5 $xtz on

Minted on https://t.co/qwTTUuVsYu
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22 February 1972: East German stamps are issued depicting minerals from the Bergakademie Freiberg's collection

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Imágenes creadas con la referencia phosphosphllyite y Bismuto, escuché cosas fascinantes acerca de ese mineral y quedó simple pero bonito

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