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Michael Anenburg

@manenbu.bsky.social

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I make fake rocks & minerals at high pressures & temperatures. Admirer of carbonatites, rare earths, and geological miscellanies. מיכאל.🐪✡️

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like me

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 4d

Look me up by name, probably easier

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 4d

Unsubscribe from any emails, problem solved.

My feed has very little AI and lots of geology.

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 4d

Link to LinkedIn?

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 4d

We’re all on LinkedIn now

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 5d

Some very unremarkable minerals there, I wonder how did they end up on the list

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 6d

Sydney last week, coming back to Canberra from Brisbane

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're hiring
Three year postdoc on geochemistry and petrology of ore-forming systems.
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level B Salary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full time, Fixed term (up to 3 years) The Position This postdoc will explore the geochemic...

jobs.anu.edu.au

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 31

Maybe it is legit?

I saw those new Proclamation coins now in our local AusPost… almost but not quite!

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thortveitite for me, thank you very much #MinCup25

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · Aug 30

Was it quietly grinding on your soul that the #MinCup25 bracket was off-center and oh-so-slightly asymmetrical? We fixed it!

No changes to the matchups, it’s just a lil bit more polished.

Alt text: A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2025". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favorite social media using #MinCup25."

The starting matches are, in chronological order: chrysotile versus pectolite, stibnite versus okenite, jeremejevite versus haüyne, calcite versus perovskite, silver versus baryte, carpathite versus leucite, sanidine versus hematite, pollucite versus tugtupite, kosmochlor versus azurite, dioptase versus wavellite, titanite versus thortveitite, zunyite versus molybdenite, topaz versus kyanite, cuprosklodowskite versus ikaite, taenite versus nontronite, and paddlewheelite versus mannardite.

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 31

Same

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 31

You’d think that “one stop stamp shop” would know its value…

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fun fact, hydration of calcium oxide and calcium silicates to portlandites involves a very large volume expansion at great force, causing all sorts of mayhem in both nature and in my own experiments

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Mineralogical Society of America @mineralsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 18

Mineral Monday: Oxygen fugacity buffer calculator by Michael Anenburg
Michael Anenburg has developed a graphical oxygen fugacity buffer calculator, available at
fo2.rses.anu.edu.au/fo2app/

#MSACommunications #MineralMonday #mineralogy #oxygenfugacity

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 10

How many do you have?

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 6

You mean courrectised

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 6

It’s antiskarnisation

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 6

I do my best 😅

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hope you enjoy it :)

May I interest you in two recent apatite related papers?
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
doi.org/10.1039/D5TB...
Published in chemistry journals so you might have missed them, but very relevant for geoscience.

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 6

Camera doesn’t do justice

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 5

I should take a video of one of them, aegirine reflects light in a very cool way

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Some but not all

Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Not including another year in a different journal (to be fair, mostly my fault for being slow, NComms were just fine)

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks, and it took a while for us to convince the world that it happens. Look at the time gap between submission and acceptance 😅

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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · Aug 5

In carbonatites, alkalis are fluxes that keep melting points low. We discovered that upon reaction with surroundings silicates ("antiskarns"), alkalis are extracted to silicate minerals, solidifying the residual carbonatite magma into crystalline rock.

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