Current Status

We’ll update the brackets as the matches progress. You can also check Results directly.

Final bracket update with Zircon as Mineral Cup Champion

Alt text: A 32-mineral elimination bracket for Mineral Cup 2023 with results from matches marked, with minerals eliminated left-to-right top-to-bottom culminating in Zircon’s victory.

Blank Bracket

Use the blank bracket to plan out your campaigns or lesson plans, print and post in a hallway to update each match, or even fill out with your predictions for bragging points! (Filling out a bracket is not necessary to play.)

Elimination bracket. See caption for mineral matchups.

Alt text: A 32-mineral elimination bracket for Mineral Cup 2023. From top to bottom in pairs alternating from left to right, the competitors are Moissanite vs Kaolinite, Cinnabar vs Quartz, Fluorapatite vs Zircon, Stibnite vs Sodalite, Dioptase vs Crocoite, Topaz vs Goethite, Vivianite vs Cavansite, Corundum vs Lawsonite, Mercury vs Sepiolite, Ammineite vs Adamite, Calcite vs Opal, Galena vs Perovskite, Cacoxenite vs Bischofite, Arsenuranospathite vs Neptunite, Sapphirine vs Kyanite, and Rhodochrosite vs Lizardite.