#mineral — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mineral, aggregated by home.social.
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Here ya go, Everyone! Anyone can vote. Once a day. Just click this link. For each day links will be shared online in Mastodon, Bluesky and a not-to-be-said-aloud other social media.
Not registration needed. Just click on that button there! And then click on the second of the 2?options and of course, for magnificent mineral orpiment. Sure cuprite is pretty in a different way BUT orpiment has more centuries and thousands of years of history!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/results-r1m05
#MinCup #MinCup26 #MineralCup #Mineral #Vote #Orpiment #Radioactive #Yellow #Orange #Pigment #Crystals
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https://www.wacoca.com/media/654316/ Book Review: Collector’s Guide to the Amphibole Group #amphibole #book #books #collectors #crystallography #edenite #formation #gem #gemology #geology #hornblende #JADE #joesmithite #Lauf #mineral #mineralogy #nephrite #Palke #pargasite #review #richterite #書籍
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Various Artists - Zero Six (Straight Up Breakbeat/FIN, 1 May 2026).
https://straightupbreakbeat.bandcamp.com/album/zero-six-bandcamp-edition
#StraightUpBreakbeat #drumandbass #jungle #breakbeat #breaks #Physics #Laytn #Askel #MarvelCinema #BasicRhythm #Esc #Mineral #VectorBurn #Dak #Submerse #AeonFour #Helsinki #Finland
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Their aim, #JDVance said in a video, is to check up on #Greenland’s security, because *unnamed other countries* could “use its territories & its waterways to threaten the United States.” And these are real concerns for the #UnitedStates, rooted in #ClimateChange: As #PolarIce melts away, superpowers are vying for newly open #ShippingRoutes in the #ArcticOcean & largely unexplored #mineral & #FossilFuel reserves.
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#UnitedNations: #Russia's #AntiWar #Indigenous Denied Credentials, Their Voices Heard Anyway
Censored News, July 11, 2024
"The voices of Russia's anti-war #IndigenousActivists denied credentials were heard anyway at the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.
Indigenous women denied credentials say Russia needs #mineral industries to wage its wars, and is asserting pressure at the United Nations."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/united-nations-russias-anti-war.html#NoWar #Buryat #Sakha #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #NoMiningWithoutConsent
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#Olivine May Have Given Life a Jump Start https://eos.org/articles/olivine-may-have-given-life-a-jump-start
Olivine-catalyzed glycolaldehyde and sugar synthesis under aqueous conditions: Application to #prebiotic chemistry https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X23005691
"this #mineral can help turn #formaldehyde into sugars. The finding could help explain how the earliest organisms obtained sugars, which they use for energy and to build genetic molecules such as RNA and DNA."
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a section of Lower Proterozoic stromatolites from Bolivia #geology #science #sediment #cyanobacteria #rock #rocks #mineral #minerals #history #earth #planet #life #organisms #biology #microorganisms #microorganism
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#Quartz is a #crystal form of #SiliconDioxide (#SiO2) in a trigonal crystal system.
Other #mineral forms of silicon dioxide exist, but quartz is probably one of the most common.
Other things can be included into the crystal, or the crystal structure can be deformed, both of which are forms of #flaws in the crystal.
Get a print or other merchandise at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/flaws-in-a-quartz-specimen-2-heron-and-fox.html#MacroPhotography, #MineralPhotography, #QuartzCrystal, #Photograph
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#Amethyst is a type of #quartz, crystalline #silicon dioxide (#SiO2), which contains inclusions of #iron on the #crystal.
This #MacroPhotograph of an amethyst specimen shows the seemingly-chaotic crystal growth.
#Macro, #Photograph, #Photography, #Photo, #Mineral, #SiliconDioxide, #AmethystCrystal
Buy a print: https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/amethyst-specimen-1-heron-and-fox.html
