#MinCup26 FINALS 🤩

If it were against anything else, cuprite would have my vote, but I NEED Quartz to finally get its win~ it just feels right that the mineral that makes up 12% of the earth’s crust gets its accolades 🥺

📣 Let’s go, team SiO2

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#MinCup26 #TeamQuartz
#DollyParton would #Vote 4 #Quartz
#Appalachia
You can too! @mineralcup.bsky.social

Quartz, people, quartz! #MinCup26

Los tangueros de Bluesky tienen que votar al Cuarzo.

Por aquel viejo tango:

"... Cuarcito azul 🎶 de mi primera ilusión 🎵..."

(Gracias Dani)
#MinCup26
#Quartz
#Tango
#Cuarzo
#Mevoysolo

Cranberry Gneiss, Mesoproterozoic, 1.05 Ga; Appalachian Mt.s, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Gneiss is a metamorphic rock that high temp & pressure have caused the minerals in granite to separate into light & dark bands. The light bands are quartz.

#MinCup26 #QuartzDeservesToWin

I hear #TeamPoison knows how to without leaving a #Trace 😉
#Quartz #MinCup26

Check you out!🙌🤛
#Quartz #MinCup26

The choice here is diabolical. This is a tough call but im voting for #cuprite to balance the scales. #mincup26

WHAT A FINISH!

There you have it! #Quartz #MinCup26

#MinCup26 #Quartz
#TeamQuartz #Champion

Debating whether I should just not check the results tomorrow and pretend that #MinCup26 isn't really over.

#DollyParton
#Appalachia
#Quartz
#MinCup26

Truer words have never been spoken before. Anyone can #Vote for #Quartz 😁
Check it out @mineralcup.bsky.social #MinCup26 #Finals ‼️

#MinCup26 Vote for the shiniest, most brilliant, and #TTRPG diciest mineral in all the lands! Vote #cuprite!

Silicon dioxide? No thanks.

I voted for #quartz of course! How could I not? #MinCup26

Llegó la tan ansiada final de #MinCup26
Cuprita vs a Cuarzo.
Cu2O vs SiO2.

Un mineral poco resistente a la oxidación pero con estructura intrincada vs el mineral omnipresente en la corteza terrestre de cristales quirales y muchos polimorfos.

Votá Cuarzo campeón
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GO CUPRITE GO! COPPER ORE BABY! #Mincup26 #MineralCup

Copper is my fav element, but for #MinCup26 final, I am team #Quartz! Pilati used its vibrational spectra to calculate how atoms move in its framework at room temperature. Quartz turns atomic motion into measurable behaviour. Read the @actacrystb.iucr.org study: journals.iucr.org/paper?cr0463=