It's just a little guy standing in front of #MinCup25 asking you to love it 🥺🦄💫

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote

Dorky Forbidden Jelly Baby Dioptase needs a votes push to the end! Squishy hug time, get your yummy candy here! 🫂

It's a silly cyclosilicate resident of Oz as seen in the "If I only had an emerald brain" guy in the post above. Under 2 hours left to vote today, and if it gets through, please vote for #dioptase in the final starting right after it as well!

#HesJustALittleGuy #ForbiddenJellyBaby #JollyRancher #JellyBaby #ForbiddenCandy #TheWizardOfOz #turquoise #meme

Still please asking #Mosstodon folks + others to consider voting for rock moss of the deserts, Dioptase in #MinCup25, thank you. 🙏 See post above and its replies for earlier photos! 🥦

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote

#TextureTuesday likewise in photos above! It's the #WizardOfOz choice as the "desert emerald", so head down the yellow brick road to the Desert Emerald City for a visit! Team #Elphaba needs your votes to help, #Wicked fans! 😉

2,5 hours left to vote! If it goes through, the finale starts right after at midnight UK time, so please vote for dioptase over Kyanite tomorrow as well! 🍀

((Or tugtupite if it wins tonight  ))

#TheWizardOfOz #Ozma #Oz #EmeraldCity #Dioptase

#Dioptase is an amazing colour-changing pleochroic goddess of a queen that looks as stunning as #Tugtupite - or more so.

She well deserves a crown in #MinCup25!

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote

An international 'crystal water' stone of mystery, it also went by the names of #achrite, #emeraudine, copper emerald or #kirghisite 🥷 👑

An amazing looking explosion of a starburst of a flower shape, The centre a turquoise colour, and the edges of the "blades" or petals of the flower in darker blueish violet colour, behind it darker still.
The lowest part white with flecks of yellow or gold, so it reminds you of space with its haze making for the starburst thought.

Very dark green lustrous dioptase crystals that look almost black. This is a night queen that sparkles. And makes for sparks if you heat it up, being pyroelectric AND phleochroic, changing colour depending on how you look at it.

#CopperSilicate (CuSiO3·H2O). Its lustre is vitreous, glass-like, to sub-adamantine, so talking Wolverine shit here, folks. 😅

With 5.5 hours remaining to vote, #Tugtupite has the lead by under 40 votes over #Dioptase.

Campaign for your fav and recruit new players to pick which mineral will compete in the #MinCup25 finals against #Kyanite!

Rhodochrosite's "Meat rock" Mineral Cup victory last year necessitates two vegetable wins! Why? So we get our MEAT & TWO VEG! 😁

https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

Eat your veg! Greens are good for you! You wouldn't eat Rudolph, and blood products are icky, whether reindeer's or other blood. Vote for #ForbiddenBroccoli, baked in #ForbiddenPie! 🥦 🥧

#MinCup25 #Dioptase *CROMCH*

More photos in the post above and the cup tags. Please vote before midnight UK time, or within the next 18,5 hours, and thank you to Desert Queen voters!

You can read more about dioptase also here:
https://geologyscience.com/minerals/silicates-minerals/dioptase/

#Rhodochrosite #Malachite #MeatAndTwoVeg #Veg #Vegetable #Crystal #Rock #Minerals #Forbidden