“Caught you staring... Now you’ll have to work even harder to look away~”
Topaz // Honkai Star Rail
#HonkaiStarRail #hsr #honkai #topaz #nsfw

#MinCup24

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Congratulations #Kyanite. Your blue blades have conquered the competition. Farewell #Topaz. Your gemmy sparkle will never be dull.

#MinCup24 R3M4: #Kyanite versus #Topaz

Blue blades of Kyanite are a classic mineral found in rock shops, introductory geology classrooms, eroded mountains, and geological research laboratories. Topaz is a jeweler’s dream mineral, blending toughness with beauty, and has exceptional clarity, brilliance, and versatility.

VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r3m4

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Congratulations, #Topaz Your many-hued gemstones have made our eyes sparkle. Farewell #Charoite. Your starry skies have left us wistfully gazing into the future.

#MinCup24 R2M8: #Charoite versus #Topaz

Chaorite is an intensely purple mineral with a fibrous, swirly pattern that’s been compared to Van Gogh’s Starry Night. It forms from contact metamorphism in Siberia.

Topaz is a hard, many-hued gemstone that crystallizes along the fractures in igneous rock, and is mined all over the world. It is pleochroic; i.e. it can appear different colors from different angles.

Time to choose your mineral!

VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r2m8

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#MinCup24
It was a very close match but congratulations to #Topaz and commiserations to #Spodumene.

#MinCup24 R1 M16: #Topaz versus #Spodumene

In a battle of the biggest stones, these minerals are ready to rumble.

Topaz forms some of the largest gemstone crystals in the world, famous specimens weighing more than a teenager. The largest crystal of Spodumene ever found is the size of a Right Whale.

Which one will you choose?

VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1m16

トパース #スターレイル #HonkaiStarRail #topaz

Congratulations, #Corundum, for bringing the sparkle of rubies and sapphire with the utility of emery into #MinCup23 Round 3!

Nice showing for your first year, #Topaz, and sorry you got scratched. We’ll see you in 2024!

(Altho ouch #topaz is losing badly lmao. Someone rally a few hundred friends for a surprise upset of #corundum's currently certain win! That'd be pretty chaotic! (I don't have that many friends or I'd do it. ) it'd also be pretty funny, so like... double dare ya.) #MinCup23

Between #topaz and #corundum, I guess corundum is more chaotic??? Let chaos minerals win brackets, y'all! Live a little! Corundum will outlast us all anyway!! #MinCup23

#MinCup23 Round 2 Match 4

If you thought last round featured some hard battles, we were just getting started! Who wins in the battle of beauty and brawn between #Topaz (Mohs 8) and #Corundum (Mohs 9)?

Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/campaigns/campaigns/round-2-match-4

Results: https://www.mineralcup.org/results/round-2-match-4

I'm a bit late for #MinCup23 but topaz is moving on to the next round anyway

There is a Spanish folktale about a princess visited by a gorgeous green bird that turns out to be an enchanted prince from China. She falls in love with him, and breaks the enchantment with the help of a clever washerwoman.

The bird transforms from bird to man by bathing in water in a bowl made of topaz.

The gap is closing in the battle of limpet teeth vs shiny gem!

But #Goethite still needs to gather just over 40 votes in just under 20 minutes if it wants to beat out #Topaz to compete in #MinCup23 next round.

In the #Goethite v. #Topaz round of #MinCup23, I have been convinced to go #TeamGoethite by limpet teeth and their fascinating feeding tracks! (I have a dental appointment soon and I may yet be wishing I had super hardened goethite teeth rather than these flaky biomineralised apatite ones...)

https://fosstodon.org/@silicatefondue/111017901455009829

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Cormac_McGinley/111000776319190235

Okay, so looks like neither is very chaotic this round - #topaz is primarily used for pretty-shinies (and do we blame them? No), and #goethite is *bog iron*, y'all.

However! I'm voting goethite and lemme tell you why: 1) it has a cool habit of coming in after other minerals and taking over where they were, crystal shape and all! (Okay a lot of opportunistic minerals do this, but I think it's cool every time.)

(I've got more reasons, hang on, hitting char limit.) #MinCup23

Oooo #topaz vs #goethite. Iirc topaz is fairly inert on the chaos scale... but I don't remember what goethite is off hand.

Lemme get comfy and I'll get into it...

(It's probably worth noting that I'm just a nerdy amateur rock collector that likes to collect safely, not a geologist or mineralogist or anything of the sort. So I use basic sources, because I can more or less understand them lmfao. When I'm wrong, tho, pls feel free to kindly teach otherwise!) #MinCup23