Ok, so, why vote #Quartz? #MinCup26

Because it's an absolute weirdo that if you squeeze generates electricity, and if you expose it to electricity acts like you've squeezed it. This led to quartz being used for the first sonar systems.

Learn more about this effect and quartz's role in its use here

#Quartz is very resistant to erosion. After all the other minerals erode away, white sand beaches remains. Quartz abides.

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... and find about 90 other reasons to vote #Quartz with our collection.
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See here! We're voting for #quartz in today's #MinCup26 quartz-erfinals.

Gaze at this quartz (and bronze, marble, frit and obsidian) @metmuseum.org find from ancient Greece ...
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I have totally reversed prior year leanings and am going all in on #quartz this year. Silicates FTW!

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#MinCup26 #Quartz, the white bread toast of minerals. Vote #skutterudite. #anyMineralButQuartz

I’ll vote for #Quartz every opportunity I get. No exception here. With my apologies to cobalt blue, a lovely color.

There are fascinating minerals named after strange places, like Skotterud. And then there is #quartz possibly from the Saxon mining phrase Querkluftertz, meaning "cross-vein ore," shortened over time (thank goodness!) from Querkluftertz down to Quartz. Vote for Querluftertz aka #quartz in #Mincup26

This is granite. You may know it from your kitchen counter. Without #Quartz, granite wouldn't exist. Vote #Quartz!
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Quartz (SiO₂) — Earth’s most common crystal, easiest to start with.

Late from silica-rich magma; fills veins; weathers into sand. Glass, chips, clocks.

Clear–milky, glassy, Mohs 7.
Specimen image: AI-generated.
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Large #Quartz cluster with #Gwindel from Puiva, Ural Mts., Russia.

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This is undyed #Quartz. No need to artficially enhance it, it's already great 🥰. Vote Quartz!
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📸Large Quartz sample from collection at Besucherbergwerk Kleinenbremen

Agate is microcrystalline #Quartz. Normally, it can be grey, brown or reddish. The colors you see below look nice at a first glance, but these specimens are dyed.
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Hey, I don’t want to be too dramatic here, but, #quartz is the universal mineral. #SiO2

Why vote for #quartz?
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Of quartz I'm voting #quartz! Anyone stuffing the ballot box this time knows where to stuff this! ⚒️💎

#Skutterudite looks so much more badass, but I will never not love the perfection of #quartz. It can do so much. It is so lovely.

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