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#BlueMinerals #PinkMinerals #MineralsArrangedByColor #Minerals #Geology
https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r5m1
#minerals
It features into some of my favorite folktales and legends:
- The City of Brass (1001 Nights), where djinn are captured in copper vessels and adventurers explore a magical city
- The Copper Forest, a Hungarian folktale where one of the stereotypical three princesses is actually in love with the enemy king, and finds a way to marry him in the end
#folklore #folktales #storytelling #minerals
#geology #minerals #MinCup24
From: @MineralCup
https://mastodon.social/@MineralCup/113060694670741201
Mineral Cup (@MineralCup@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Hey look! A #MinCup24 blank bracket for you! https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/bracket (Anyone want to write our alt text? It’s been that kind of year.)Mastodon
Incidentally, it's also the weeked of the Budapest Mineral Show. Where people can vote for Mineral of the Year 2025 and Fossil of the Year 2025 😊 3 candidates each. The geologists at the booth are lobbying hard for their favorites. I was won over by the opal lobby. And got a button!
(Also pictured is a pink opal bracelet. Because pebbles!)
#MinCup24 #minerals #geology #shiny #jewelry #image
I posted about the Roses in the Mountains legends here in the last round:
https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/111073175038609971
Vote for underground rose gardens full of rhodochrosite flowers, and legendary Dwarf kingdoms 😄
#folklore #folktales #legends #minerals
Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág (@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social)
Today's #MinCup23 vote has my favorite: Rhodochrosite! #Thread There's a legend from South Tyrol about King Laurin's Rose Garden. (That part of the Dolomites is actually called Rosengarten).ohai.social
Calcite reminds me of a story from Costa Rica. A chief called Nandayure owned a magic wand that could make disappear anything that contained calcium. One day he saw his people dancing, wearing lots of white body paint, and grew so angry at the decorations he aimed the wand at them. You know what else has calcium? Bones. Oops.
(He managed to reverse the spell by destroying the wand)
#folklore #folktales #minerals #gemstones #thread
*Cracks knuckles*
I'm voting corundum, because folklore (and because as a kid I had a book on gemstones, and padparadscha seemed so magical).
I'm going to make this a thread, because rubies and sapphires figure into a whole bunch of tales and legends.
🧵
#folklore #folktales #mythology #gems #minerals #thread #corundum
Stibnite is also known as kohl, used as an eyeliner since Ancient Egypt.
There in an Egyptian folktale where a dervish puts magic kohl on the eyes of a young man, rendering him invisible so he can sneak into the king's palace to see a princess.
A wily old woman catches the trespasser by burning buffalo dung - the rancid smoke makes the guy tear up, and the tears wash the magic kohl from his eyes. Oops.
#folktales #folklore #minerals
Fun fact, the Hungarian version of D&D had gemstone-based magic, and lucky characters got to use amethyst to purify alcoholic drinks 😄
#ttrpg #DnD #folklore #minerals #MinCup23 #mythology
Support quartz and vote for it here: https://mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
#TeamQuartz #MinCup23 #mineral #minerals @MineralCup 9/?
Round 1 Match 2
It’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?Mika McKinnon (Mineral Cup)
So remember, whenever you check the time, you should thank the tiny little quartz crystal vibrating thousands of times a second!
Show your appreciation for quartz by voting here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
#TeamQuartz #MinCup23 #minerals #mineral 8/?
Round 1 Match 2
It’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?Mika McKinnon (Mineral Cup)
Original photo © Garitzko: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armbanduhr_Rueckseite.jpg
#TeamQuartz #MinCup23 #minerals #mineral @MineralCup 6/?
© Ashley Van Haeften: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothair_Crystal
Make sure you vote for quartz here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
#TeamQuartz #MinCup23 #minerals #mineral @MineralCup 5/?
Round 1 Match 2
It’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?Mika McKinnon (Mineral Cup)
Have you ever visited a museum or gallery and seen something carved out of rock crystal? Well that's just a colourless variety of quartz. This is a Fatimid (#Egyptian) jug carved from quartz, late 10th to early 11th century
Photo © Dallas Museum of Art
#TeamQuartz #MinCup23 #art #minerals #mineral @MineralCup 4/?
Vote for quartz here! https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
#geology #mineral #minerals @MineralCup 3/?
Round 1 Match 2
It’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?Mika McKinnon (Mineral Cup)
#mineral #minerals #MinCup23 #TeamQuartz @MineralCup 2/?
Quartz is my all time favourite mineral. Despite its simple formula (SiO2), it can be found in a variety of colours and morphologies 1/?
Vote for quartz here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-1-match-2
#MinCup23 #minerals #mineral #quartz @MineralCup
Round 1 Match 2
It’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?Mika McKinnon (Mineral Cup)
Round 1 Match 2
It’s time for familiar favourites! Do you prefer the ominous scarlet of Cinnabar, or the familiar charm of Quartz? One needs to be handled with care, while the other is the cornerstone of every childhood rock collection. Which will it be?Mika McKinnon (Mineral Cup)
It was named due to its blue color being similar to sapphire, a different, associated mineral (#corundum, aluminum oxide).
An amazing amount of information can be found about #sapphirine at MinDat:
https://www.mindat.org/min-3531.html
a non-profit mineral data base founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph (who is on Mastodon at @jolyon).
#MinCup23 #Minerals #Greenland
Contenders for MotY:
Zircon
Feldspar
Corundum
Contenders for FotY:
Aptychus
Quercus kubinyii
Woolly mammoth
I know which ones I'm voting for. Curious what you all think 😊
#fossils #minerals #geology #paleontology #vote #rocks