#teamquartz — Public Fediverse posts

Sure, I like the “forbidden bacon” rhodochrosite as much as the next person but I am team Quartz all the way! #MinCup24

Quartz gets my physics vote as 20% of the Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity, plus its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers!

Quartz get art vote for jewelry and hard stone carving since antiquity!

#TeamQuartz #scicomm #minerals #sciart #MastoArt

@MineralCup #TeamQuartz is the Real Time Lord! And you can use it to light your grille to cook your food which you eat with your apatite to feed your appetite. Can't do any of that with zircon!

i voted for quartz #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz

You can add your vote for this beautiful & versatile mineral here https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2

#crystals #rockhound #quartz #Hobbies

#quartz is nice and I'm glad for crystal derived time, but I voted #cinnabar. Quartz is omnipresent, but the trip with single digit aged me and my dad and the guide to Obermoschel was unique. I'm working with quartz for clock signals, have some nice oscillators (Rb Controlled, heated) but my picture shows an old russian low frequency quartz bar I'm didn't come around to use yet. #mincup23 #teamquartz

Banded Iron Formations (BIF) are among the oldest of Earth's rocks and distributed worldwide. They are very tough, very hard, and comparatively very resistant to weathering. Their deposition is a key indicator of the atmosphere and hydrosphere of the Precambrian, and still being debated and examined today, although a broad general consensus exists relating to the evolution of oxygen producing cyanobacteria in a generally reducing ocean prior to an oxygenated atmosphere. #TeamQuartz #MinCup23

My favorite rock is #BandedIronFormation, a sedimentary rock comprised of thin bands of #Magnetite and #Hematite interlaced with (usually) reddish #jasper (chert #quartz). It's beautiful, primarily down to #TeamQuartz. Sadly, neither hematite or magnetite are in #MinCup23 Vote for quartz here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2

This is a pretty close matchup! Whether you are #TeamCinnabar or #TeamQuartz, campaign and VOTE! It could go either way at this point! Your team is counting on you! #MinCup23

Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2

View results here: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-1-match-2

Still on the fence between #Quartz and #Cinnabar? Did you know that chert is another name for microcrystalline quartz? So is flint (a variety of chert). Flint gave early humans fire, arrow tips, and other tools, it was the first mineral mined, supposedly.
Does #Link go around looking for cinnabar? Is cinnabar featured in #minecraft? Heck no. #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz

C'mon folks, go to #MineralCup at https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2 and put your vote in for #Quartz! Quartz is the working stiff of #Minerals, the everyman, it's the Joad family of minerals, basically. Sure #cinnabar is pretty, it's splashy, and is an important mercury ore mineral, it's worthy, but can you count on it when the chips are down and you need to build a road, or make a sandcastle? Why do these people hate #sandcastles? That's like hating #kittens. #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz

I'm not usually a fan of trash talking a mineral I don't like in #MinCup23, but mercury is an absolute bane in uranium-lead geochronology (long story for a later post...) so, by association, I'm not a fan of that shiny red death mineral cinnabar.

So vote #TeamQuartz! It's pretty. It's simple. It's not trying to sneak into your nervous system and kill you.

Plus it is often the first mineral that we encounter in our formative years (especially the lovely amethyst variety...) that leads to years of pleasure collecting minerals. So return the love and vote quartz!

https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2

@MineralCup #MinCup2023 because 2023 is the year of #TeamQuartz and not the tasty looking candy-coloured death-cinnabon.