#MinCup24

⚒️🧪 geology

Congratulations #rhodochrosite! Your meat-rock cry has rallied your fans to victory. Farewell #quartz. Your myriad of varieties, colours, and forms will return in Mineral Cup 25.

#MinCup24 R1 M11: #Quartz versus #Mercury

It’s a clash of titans as two iconic minerals face off this round. Which will you choose?

Quartz is the most prevalent mineral on the surface of the Earth. Today it faces off against mercury, the only naturally-occurring metal to be liquid at room temperature!

VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1m11

#MinCup23 Round 2 Match 2 featured an upset as after a strong early lead by #Quartz, #Stibnite slowly gained momentum for an explosive win!

Congratulations to the sparkle ore and better luck in 2024 to the reliable & relatable quartz.

There is a lovely Hungarian poem about a family of clocks. The great-granddad was an hourglass, then there are clock towers, and alarm clocks, and finally the great-granddaughter is a quartz clock, and the line is "she has a grain of old sand in her heart." 🥰
#MinCup23 #quartz #poetry

Cinnabar has a slight lead over quartz and I'm not happy about that! This is the start of a *long* thread for #TeamQuartz which I'll be updating throughout the day.

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

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

As for quartz, here is a Mansi legend about the origin of rock crystals in the Urals. It tells of a chief who built a tower of clear crystal, which a horde of giants shattered, trying to kidnap the chief's daughter. With the help of spirits, the attackers were turned into pillars of stone.

I blogged about the story here
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2022/04/q-is-for-quartz-crystals-gemstone.html?m=1

#folklore #folktales #MinCup23 #quartz

It’s #MinCup23 Round 1 Match 2!

It’s heavy-hitters #Cinnabar v #Quartz. We know you love them both, but you need to decide. One moves to Round 2. The other is eliminated, never to be seen in #MinCup again (unless it wins a future play-in round).

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