#dioptase — Public Fediverse posts

Still please asking #Mosstodon folks + others to consider voting for rock moss of the deserts, Dioptase in #MinCup25, thank you. 🙏 See post above and its replies for earlier photos! 🥦

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote

#TextureTuesday likewise in photos above! It's the #WizardOfOz choice as the "desert emerald", so head down the yellow brick road to the Desert Emerald City for a visit! Team #Elphaba needs your votes to help, #Wicked fans! 😉

2,5 hours left to vote! If it goes through, the finale starts right after at midnight UK time, so please vote for dioptase over Kyanite tomorrow as well! 🍀

((Or tugtupite if it wins tonight :blobcat_party: ))

#TheWizardOfOz #Ozma #Oz #EmeraldCity #Dioptase

Rhodochrosite's "Meat rock" Mineral Cup victory last year necessitates two vegetable wins! Why? So we get our MEAT & TWO VEG! 😁

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

Eat your veg! Greens are good for you! You wouldn't eat Rudolph, and blood products are icky, whether reindeer's or other blood. Vote for #ForbiddenBroccoli, baked in #ForbiddenPie! 🥦 🥧

#MinCup25 #Dioptase *CROMCH*

More photos in the post above and the cup tags. Please vote before midnight UK time, or within the next 18,5 hours, and thank you to Desert Queen voters!

You can read more about dioptase also here:
https://geologyscience.com/minerals/silicates-minerals/dioptase/

#Rhodochrosite #Malachite #MeatAndTwoVeg #Veg #Vegetable #Crystal #Rock #Minerals #Forbidden

Crown Emerald Copper, Desert Queen Dioptase!

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

Please vote for the pyroelectric, HOT desert mama! It's so amazing it can look like moss but is electric if you heat it up 😲

So, did someone call #electric #Mosstodon? The most arid deserts in the world have none, but grow moss-like dioptase to make up for it. The world's amazing, so spread the love & vote!
Forbidden #broccoli or green #cauliflower?

Dioptase was first mistaken to be emerald and gets its colour and toxicity from copper. Hence, Emerald Copper and Desert Emerald nicknames! Although it's toxic - no licking! 😅 - the vivid green tones make it great for healing & the heart. 💚💎🧡

Here's some different mossy shapes to spot in different photos, if you want to look toward the ground instead of what you see in clouds! Thanks for voting!

#MinCup25 #Dioptase with emerandine 🥦 #Moss #Angel #Horse #Fish #Desert #DesertEmerald #Tugtupite #Mineral #Emerandine #Malachite #Copper #Toxic #Emerald #Gemstones #Jewellery #Healing #Spirituality

@heyfluxay 🫡 🙏 I'd love everyone to recruit new voters for #DIOPTASE the Queen of the Desert Emeralds to beat Tugtupite in today's match and FTW!

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

(Edit: King of #Fluorescent #Minerals #Tugtupite, if possible! ONLY TOMORROW & IF it goes to the finale. Newcomer can try next year, too! Dioptase before a first timer!)

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m02

Anyone can vote and there's been a jump from a 50 vote difference with 853 to 900 to 942-943 just now - so it's all about getting as many new voters in as possible. 3 hours to #vote!

#Piezoelectric #pizza rock Tugtupite is the favourite mineral of #pugs & #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, so you make #doggo sad if you don't vote for the #beryllium #aluminium tectosilicate #gemstone. Turtle power!

:blobfoxcry:

More info in ALT texts! Photos behind link

https://www.minershop.com/products/tugtupite-crystals-greenland-msj0284

https://www.elesyngaea.com/listing/1055053078/tugtupite-fantasy-rock-sodalite

#MinCup25 #TMNT