To sum up: #guano captured the attention (and sometimes the lives) of Incan rulers, industrial corporations, Black brotherhoods, exploited migrant workers, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The extra sparkle of #Ammineite adds the final shine, #MinCup voters!
#PoopSparkle for #MinCup25!
An advertisement in an 1866 newspaper. The title reads GUANO. Above the title reads: Guano! Guano!! Guano!!! Beneath the title: Peruvian and Swan Island Guanos, Superphosphates, and the Bruce Concentrated Fertilizer, are offered to the Trade at the lowest wholesale prices, by George E. White & Co., No. 55 Cliff street, New York.
#Guano, one of the essential ingredients for #Ammineite, has an amazing (and terrible) history.
Featuring not just birds and bats, but kings and rebels, Black Mutual Aid organizations, and the U.S. Supreme Court...
Minerals don’t always follow our strict definitions separating organic and inorganic chemistry. There’s magnetite teeth, calcite eyes, mineralized guano... Microbes assist Cu’s reaction with bird guano. I’m voting for the copper ammine, #Ammineite #SparklyPoo
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So #MinCup #MinCup24 …
Can I synthesize #ammineite at home? Just enough to coat a glass microscope slide? 🤔
Is there a protocol?
Just over six hours left to vote in this match of #MinCup24 and #Dioptase has a strong lead over #Ammineite. Whether you want to turn things around for #Ammineite or ensure #Dioptase makes it over the line, now is the time to make your case, gather your team, and vote!
Sending #Ammineite some love in #MinCup24 ⚒️🧪
It's a amazingly rare mineral requiring a combination of copper mineralisation and nesting birds. It demonstrates the efforts the Universe goes to create fascinating complexity.
www.mindat.org/photo-786767...
As a wastewater professional I am obligated to vote #Ammineite #MinCup24
Birds, bats, copper …
Of course I’m voting for #ammineite!
Which reminds me. Must clean the bird’s cage later. Maybe I’ll find some beautiful crystals! 😆
#MinCup #MinCup24
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammineite
Another toughie. Artist wife quick to say #Dioptase is used in great art from antiquity.
Though #Ammineite is a beautiful blue & found in Bat Guano, which of course was Keenan Wynn's name in "Dr. Strangelove." If I don't vote for Bat Guano will I have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company? #MinCup24
I could not help but vote for #ammineite, because of its fabulous origin story.
At last, an easy one! Let’s go #Ammineite, because it’s blue (we’re all very scientific here)!!!
Go vote!!
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Pee vs poo final would have been epic. Still, my vote is for blue, guano-derived #ammineite.
#MinCup ROUND 1 MATCH 6: Are you ready for colour as bright blue #Ammineite from guano battles the deep green #Dioptase of the desert?
VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1...
RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2024/results...
You have 24 hours to pick your champion and campaign for their cause!
#Whewellite is an oxalate which can crystallize in urine, so can we make a pee vs poo match with #ammineite? Pretty please?
