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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: ))
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Over two billion tonnes of iron ore have been mined from the Labrador Trough of Quebec and Labrador over the last 70 years. The paleo-Proterozoic sediments have been variably metamorphosed (you can see the bend in the southern part of the belt caused by the younger Grenville orogeny). Much of the direct shipping ore is dominated by the mineral #Hematite.
The steel of your lunchtime knife and fork may have come from the Trough!
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Please vote Dioptase the rare pyroelectric #TeamGreen #DesertEmerald through to go against #tugtupite in the Mineral Cup semi-finals!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04
Emerald copper FTW 💚💎🧡
We can get a #piezoelectricity versus #pyroelectricity battle for the ages! It's * #ELECTRIC * ;PPressure or fire, heating things up to get zappadelic, gotta love that.
Better yet:
"As mentioned in the introduction, there is a profound relationship between pyro and piezo sensors: Every pyroelectric crystal is also a piezoelectric crystal (but not vice versa)."
Heating leads to expansion of the crystal lattice, and a measurable electric voltage.https://www.dewetron.com/news/the-piezoelectric-and-pyroelectric-effect/
(After the last two days seeing mass vote stuffing tampering attempts, they're auditing preliminary results, so please rope in new folks to vote for this little toxic pyro guy instead! 🍀 Thank you for voting!)
#Dioptase #MinCup25 #pyroelectric #pyroelectricity #MineralCup -
Please vote Dioptase the rare pyroelectric #TeamGreen #DesertEmerald through to go against #tugtupite in the Mineral Cup semi-finals!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04
Emerald copper FTW 💚💎🧡
We can get a #piezoelectricity versus #pyroelectricity battle for the ages! It's * #ELECTRIC * ;PPressure or fire, heating things up to get zappadelic, gotta love that.
Better yet:
"As mentioned in the introduction, there is a profound relationship between pyro and piezo sensors: Every pyroelectric crystal is also a piezoelectric crystal (but not vice versa)."
Heating leads to expansion of the crystal lattice, and a measurable electric voltage.https://www.dewetron.com/news/the-piezoelectric-and-pyroelectric-effect/
(After the last two days seeing mass vote stuffing tampering attempts, they're auditing preliminary results, so please rope in new folks to vote for this little toxic pyro guy instead! 🍀 Thank you for voting!)
#Dioptase #MinCup25 #pyroelectric #pyroelectricity #MineralCup -
Please vote Dioptase the rare pyroelectric #TeamGreen #DesertEmerald through to go against #tugtupite in the Mineral Cup semi-finals!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04
Emerald copper FTW 💚💎🧡
We can get a #piezoelectricity versus #pyroelectricity battle for the ages! It's * #ELECTRIC * ;PPressure or fire, heating things up to get zappadelic, gotta love that.
Better yet:
"As mentioned in the introduction, there is a profound relationship between pyro and piezo sensors: Every pyroelectric crystal is also a piezoelectric crystal (but not vice versa)."
Heating leads to expansion of the crystal lattice, and a measurable electric voltage.https://www.dewetron.com/news/the-piezoelectric-and-pyroelectric-effect/
(After the last two days seeing mass vote stuffing tampering attempts, they're auditing preliminary results, so please rope in new folks to vote for this little toxic pyro guy instead! 🍀 Thank you for voting!)
#Dioptase #MinCup25 #pyroelectric #pyroelectricity #MineralCup -
Please vote Dioptase the rare pyroelectric #TeamGreen #DesertEmerald through to go against #tugtupite in the Mineral Cup semi-finals!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04
Emerald copper FTW 💚💎🧡
We can get a #piezoelectricity versus #pyroelectricity battle for the ages! It's * #ELECTRIC * ;PPressure or fire, heating things up to get zappadelic, gotta love that.
Better yet:
"As mentioned in the introduction, there is a profound relationship between pyro and piezo sensors: Every pyroelectric crystal is also a piezoelectric crystal (but not vice versa)."
Heating leads to expansion of the crystal lattice, and a measurable electric voltage.https://www.dewetron.com/news/the-piezoelectric-and-pyroelectric-effect/
(After the last two days seeing mass vote stuffing tampering attempts, they're auditing preliminary results, so please rope in new folks to vote for this little toxic pyro guy instead! 🍀 Thank you for voting!)
#Dioptase #MinCup25 #pyroelectric #pyroelectricity #MineralCup -
Please vote Dioptase the rare pyroelectric #TeamGreen #DesertEmerald through to go against #tugtupite in the Mineral Cup semi-finals!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04
Emerald copper FTW 💚💎🧡
We can get a #piezoelectricity versus #pyroelectricity battle for the ages! It's * #ELECTRIC * ;PPressure or fire, heating things up to get zappadelic, gotta love that.
Better yet:
"As mentioned in the introduction, there is a profound relationship between pyro and piezo sensors: Every pyroelectric crystal is also a piezoelectric crystal (but not vice versa)."
Heating leads to expansion of the crystal lattice, and a measurable electric voltage.https://www.dewetron.com/news/the-piezoelectric-and-pyroelectric-effect/
(After the last two days seeing mass vote stuffing tampering attempts, they're auditing preliminary results, so please rope in new folks to vote for this little toxic pyro guy instead! 🍀 Thank you for voting!)
#Dioptase #MinCup25 #pyroelectric #pyroelectricity #MineralCup -
One vote can literally make the difference. Vote now! #hematite #SoClose #OnlyMinutesLeft #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r6drdfmf5fzdtvuacnfmfiga/post/3lzmp6mzd6227 -
Massive #hematite later brecciated by quartz veining, From the Soudan ironstone, Ely greenstone belt, Vermilion district of northern Minnesota.
These ironstones are sandwiched between pillow basalts of approximately 2.7 billion years old.
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The organizers of #MinCup25 are very clever. Today and yesterday feature three aluminosilicates that are compositionally co-linear!
Diagram from Barton (1982), published in the American Mineralogist.
#kyanite #topaz #zunyite #aluminosilicate #MineralSocAmerica #ArgillicAlteration
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Oh wow this is a gorgeous specimen! Absolutely bonkers price, but the silver price (according to a quick Google) is as of today approx US$41/oz - and then you've got to cover finders fees, taxes, import costs, the upcharge for how pretty that formation is, actually gaining profit over the vendor's costs to be at Tucson Gem Show and have sufficient stock (not all vendors also mine/shape/whatever their own stock or work super hand in glove with the folk who do. So)...
(Mind you if it was JUST priced on weight and today's price, rough math says it weighs 11.58lb, approx., which might be true but seems overly heavy for the measurements in the alt-text. No I'd guess about a third to half that price is covering vendor costs for it rather than strict valuation of it.)
Aaaaaanyway. .... I just wanted to say it was pretty and adhd went "okay bur consider". 🙄😅😅🤣🤣 sorry and good morning ish???
via @cobalt123
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Oh wow this is a gorgeous specimen! Absolutely bonkers price, but the silver price (according to a quick Google) is as of today approx US$41/oz - and then you've got to cover finders fees, taxes, import costs, the upcharge for how pretty that formation is, actually gaining profit over the vendor's costs to be at Tucson Gem Show and have sufficient stock (not all vendors also mine/shape/whatever their own stock or work super hand in glove with the folk who do. So)...
(Mind you if it was JUST priced on weight and today's price, rough math says it weighs 11.58lb, approx., which might be true but seems overly heavy for the measurements in the alt-text. No I'd guess about a third to half that price is covering vendor costs for it rather than strict valuation of it.)
Aaaaaanyway. .... I just wanted to say it was pretty and adhd went "okay bur consider". 🙄😅😅🤣🤣 sorry and good morning ish???
via @cobalt123
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Oh wow this is a gorgeous specimen! Absolutely bonkers price, but the silver price (according to a quick Google) is as of today approx US$41/oz - and then you've got to cover finders fees, taxes, import costs, the upcharge for how pretty that formation is, actually gaining profit over the vendor's costs to be at Tucson Gem Show and have sufficient stock (not all vendors also mine/shape/whatever their own stock or work super hand in glove with the folk who do. So)...
(Mind you if it was JUST priced on weight and today's price, rough math says it weighs 11.58lb, approx., which might be true but seems overly heavy for the measurements in the alt-text. No I'd guess about a third to half that price is covering vendor costs for it rather than strict valuation of it.)
Aaaaaanyway. .... I just wanted to say it was pretty and adhd went "okay bur consider". 🙄😅😅🤣🤣 sorry and good morning ish???
via @cobalt123
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Oh wow this is a gorgeous specimen! Absolutely bonkers price, but the silver price (according to a quick Google) is as of today approx US$41/oz - and then you've got to cover finders fees, taxes, import costs, the upcharge for how pretty that formation is, actually gaining profit over the vendor's costs to be at Tucson Gem Show and have sufficient stock (not all vendors also mine/shape/whatever their own stock or work super hand in glove with the folk who do. So)...
(Mind you if it was JUST priced on weight and today's price, rough math says it weighs 11.58lb, approx., which might be true but seems overly heavy for the measurements in the alt-text. No I'd guess about a third to half that price is covering vendor costs for it rather than strict valuation of it.)
Aaaaaanyway. .... I just wanted to say it was pretty and adhd went "okay bur consider". 🙄😅😅🤣🤣 sorry and good morning ish???
via @cobalt123
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Oh wow this is a gorgeous specimen! Absolutely bonkers price, but the silver price (according to a quick Google) is as of today approx US$41/oz - and then you've got to cover finders fees, taxes, import costs, the upcharge for how pretty that formation is, actually gaining profit over the vendor's costs to be at Tucson Gem Show and have sufficient stock (not all vendors also mine/shape/whatever their own stock or work super hand in glove with the folk who do. So)...
(Mind you if it was JUST priced on weight and today's price, rough math says it weighs 11.58lb, approx., which might be true but seems overly heavy for the measurements in the alt-text. No I'd guess about a third to half that price is covering vendor costs for it rather than strict valuation of it.)
Aaaaaanyway. .... I just wanted to say it was pretty and adhd went "okay bur consider". 🙄😅😅🤣🤣 sorry and good morning ish???
via @cobalt123
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Claudia Zahn @Adrenochrome
has posted some astounding photos of #Wavellite over the last year. Below are two, but search the hashtag to see the whole collection! -
@MineralCup I am once again asking for people to vote for Dioptase! 🙏 ⬆️
:take_my_money: PYROELECTRIC :blobfoxdealwithitfingerguns: You heat that babe, you get ⚡
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m10
Rerun campaign! Mineral or gem images in the reply above
Cuboids!
Dioptase on a matrix of sky-blue chrysocolla.
Dioptase gem.
Dioptase on calcite.#Dioptase images. Stunningly gorgeous & vivid green turquoise colour gem, cubes or cuboids or whatever your technical terms. Pictures saved from Twtr or Google, likely during 2021 or 2022 #MinCup.
Dioptase need loads more votes by later on because it's a grudge match to some.
Opt in for some "#Dio och tasering" hard. ROCK. times this mineral cup!
#MinCup25 (Damn tag based 'economy' here.) #MinCup2025 #MineralCup #MineralCup25 #MineralCup2025 #TeamDioptase #WordPlay
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@MineralCup I am once again asking for people to vote for Dioptase! 🙏 ⬆️
:take_my_money: PYROELECTRIC :blobfoxdealwithitfingerguns: You heat that babe, you get ⚡
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m10
Rerun campaign! Mineral or gem images in the reply above
Cuboids!
Dioptase on a matrix of sky-blue chrysocolla.
Dioptase gem.
Dioptase on calcite.#Dioptase images. Stunningly gorgeous & vivid green turquoise colour gem, cubes or cuboids or whatever your technical terms. Pictures saved from Twtr or Google, likely during 2021 or 2022 #MinCup.
Dioptase need loads more votes by later on because it's a grudge match to some.
Opt in for some "#Dio och tasering" hard. ROCK. times this mineral cup!
#MinCup25 (Damn tag based 'economy' here.) #MinCup2025 #MineralCup #MineralCup25 #MineralCup2025 #TeamDioptase #WordPlay
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@MineralCup I am once again asking for people to vote for Dioptase! 🙏 ⬆️
:take_my_money: PYROELECTRIC :blobfoxdealwithitfingerguns: You heat that babe, you get ⚡
https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m10
Rerun campaign! Mineral or gem images in the reply above
Cuboids!
Dioptase on a matrix of sky-blue chrysocolla.
Dioptase gem.
Dioptase on calcite.#Dioptase images. Stunningly gorgeous & vivid green turquoise colour gem, cubes or cuboids or whatever your technical terms. Pictures saved from Twtr or Google, likely during 2021 or 2022 #MinCup.
Dioptase need loads more votes by later on because it's a grudge match to some.
Opt in for some "#Dio och tasering" hard. ROCK. times this mineral cup!
#MinCup25 (Damn tag based 'economy' here.) #MinCup2025 #MineralCup #MineralCup25 #MineralCup2025 #TeamDioptase #WordPlay
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I maintain that this is a rude matchup. Ruuuuude. I'm gonna delay my vote til morning - someone poke me in like 10 hours or something - but also I need a cute bit of #wavellite for reasons of "gimme rocks pls thx".
via @MineralCup
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I maintain that this is a rude matchup. Ruuuuude. I'm gonna delay my vote til morning - someone poke me in like 10 hours or something - but also I need a cute bit of #wavellite for reasons of "gimme rocks pls thx".
via @MineralCup