#Mincup25 Teams #Calcite #Azurite #silver #chrysotile #okenite #wavellite #pollucite #nontronite #padddlewheelite #leucite #jeremejevite #zunyite #thortveitite #topaz #ikaite #sanidine
"The losing minerals are crossed out" - and cross!
www.mineralcup.org/2025/bracket
What to do?
We can... 1/2
And large slab of grey stone with puffy white structures on top.
And much cooler than expected in person #Okenite
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Follow up question: how many tribbles would be "more than necessary"? Every tribble is welcome! Vote #okenite ! #mincup
Love tribbles hate Shatner. Allegedly they threw more tribbles than was necessary at him because he was such a *pleasant* coworker.
#okenite #MinCup25
#StarTrek is great! Tell me this isn't a #tribble gently cradled in the remains of a geode! It's adorable 😍
#okenite #MinCup24
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Yeah, stibnite is all goth, but #okenite is cute and prickly. It forms in #basalt pockets. It's #amethyst's friend! It might leave needles in your fingers if you pet enthusiastically, but I can appreciate that. www.mindat.org/photo-389436...
As astronomers & space scientists, we're just drawn to the darkness, & antimony trisulfide crystallized into #Stibnite, just does it for us.
Sorry #okenite. You form in rocks that look like potatoes & then pretend to be cotton balls - sharp, solid cotton balls. That's a hard no for us.
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I don't really have a preference here, but let's vote for #Okenite.
Why? It was named after biologist Lorenz Oken. He was the first to recognize the significance of biological cell structure: "All living organisms originate from and consist of cells".
#Biosky, I am looking on you for support.
Buenos Dios mi amigo!
Hoy es uno negro y
blanco dia. El sexy pulcro #Stibnite es victorious asi mucho. Blanco #Okenite mejor levantar!
Wollastonite #Okenite reduces the carbon footprint of precast concrete by 70%! www.treehugger.com/lafargeholci...
I like the goth look of Stibonite, but fluffy cotton balls that also reduce the carbon footprint of precast concrete by 70% and sequester CO2? I am team #Okenite
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Cute, cottony okenite https://www.mindat.org/min-2967.html
Spiky, lustery black stibnite https://mineralexpert.org/article/stibnite-antimony-ore-mineral
It's cute, kawaii puffball #okenite, found protected in basaltic geodes, vs punk rock #stibnite today. Stibnite is the primary ore for antimony, but it's also known for uses in accident kohl eyeliner and fireworks. #TeanStibnite - what can I say? Those black spikes get me. #MinCup25
A white cotton-ball looking mineral with poorly drawn googly eyes. The background consists of smaller, tan crystals that look like cauliflower.
#Okenite for the win baby!
What a weird little phyllosilicate. Where's your aluminum, little buddy?
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In the end, I looked deep into the darkness & had to say yes to #Stibnite. I look forward to #Okenite doing well in #MinCup26, but for #MinCup25 I’m Team Darkness. Also, eyeing the posts, there’s clearly A Love Supreme among supporters for the Kohl Train.
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
White #Okenite speheres inside #Amethyst pipe from India.
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Oh no, I stopped getting notifications not only here but also elsewhere! I nearly missed the vote. #Stibnite it is, because it looks gorgeous, just like #Okenite but less fluffy and more stable.
I mean, it’s also very useful, but I’m mainly voting for it because it looks cool. You know the throne of swords from Game of Thrones? It kinda looks like the back of that.
#Okenite apparently can be bendy in its little tiny puffball crystal fibers which is pretty cool too, I guess. 😂
#Okenite is round and white and like a puffball, and is often found in geodes (which, again, form in vugs, often in volcanic rocks).
#Stibnite is a type of antimony and forms really cool black spiky crystals that fan out from a center point. If you grind it and mix it with fat you get kohl.
Stibnite has goth appeal, but imagine peering into a vug lined with Amethyst or Prehnite to find these fluffy #Okenite tribbles.
Okenite is a phyllosilicate, similar to Muscovite. Are the needles as elastic as a sheet of mica?
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#Stibnite has more practical uses but going with #okenite bc its the underdog so far and its cottonball like appearance is cute. #Mincup25
I’m in. #Okenite
Thinking about voting for the mineral a learn the most from while trying to learn about the mineral.
Awkward sentence. Sorry.
Anyway, I don’t recall learning about Ocken prior to five minutes ago.
Thanks, fuzzy little mineral #Okenite.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_...
#Mincup2025 #R1M2 is #stibonite v #okenite.
Should be a close match. I believe we are #teamokenite on this round, but check the posts below for more info.
I’m torn. I remember campaigning for dark & dramatic #stibnite in #MinCup24 but those fragile, fluffy, cutie-pie little newcomers of #okenite are tugging on my heart strings. I feel both calling to me. I think I’ll have to think about this one. #MinCup25
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Tribbles on a bar in the Star Trek: Original Series episode The Trouble With Tribbloes.
#Okenite looks like something you see from the site of a surviving meteorite that you collect and put on the mantel of the fireplace... until it starts cutely purring.
You are also advised NOT to eat #Stibnite.
https://rockidentifier.com/wiki/Stibnite.html
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