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Elysia Macht Sep 30, 2025

Crown Emerald Copper, Desert Queen Dioptase!

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

Please vote for the pyroelectric, HOT desert mama! It's so amazing it can look like moss but is electric if you heat it up 😲

So, did someone call #electric #Mosstodon? The most arid deserts in the world have none, but grow moss-like dioptase to make up for it. The world's amazing, so spread the love & vote!
Forbidden #broccoli or green #cauliflower?

Dioptase was first mistaken to be emerald and gets its colour and toxicity from copper. Hence, Emerald Copper and Desert Emerald nicknames! Although it's toxic - no licking! 😅 - the vivid green tones make it great for healing & the heart. 💚💎🧡

Here's some different mossy shapes to spot in different photos, if you want to look toward the ground instead of what you see in clouds! Thanks for voting!

#MinCup25 #Dioptase with emerandine 🥦 #Moss #Angel #Horse #Fish #Desert #DesertEmerald #Tugtupite #Mineral #Emerandine #Malachite #Copper #Toxic #Emerald #Gemstones #Jewellery #Healing #Spirituality

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Elysia Macht

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

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Elysia Macht Sep 30, 2025

#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. 😅