Elemental creatures, weird and distorted, of the mineral world!

September 1, 2022 9:45 AM

Since 2017 each September the @mincup account on Twitter has run an annual mineral cup knockout contest. Each day people who are way too heavily invested vote between two minerals to eventually crown that year's mineral champion.

Today the voting begins with the choice of schorl (goth tourmaline) or kaolinite (boring but essential).
Are either of them fit to join legends Olivine (2017), Garnet (2018), Ice (2019), Magnetite (2020) & Quetzalcoatlite (2021)?

posted by thatwhichfalls (6 comments total)

BRB, need to frantically google "Is ICE a mineral?"
posted by jacquilynne at 10:08 AM on September 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

Oh, you don't want to do that. That's a hole that ends up with people being shanked in a back-alley if they go too deep. Ice people are vicious.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:11 AM on September 1, 2022 [9 favorites]

Jesus Christ, Marie.
posted by Bee'sWing at 10:16 AM on September 1, 2022 [3 favorites]

Oh, you don't want to do that. That's a hole that ends up with people being shanked in a back-alley if they go too deep. Ice people are vicious.

The worst part is they never find the knife.
posted by Etrigan at 11:14 AM on September 1, 2022 [19 favorites]

I went to a really cool rock and gem museum earlier this summer, and I was telling someone about it and they said "I didn't know you were a rock hound." i'm like, mf you don't have to own a rock hammer to like cool rocks. Anyway, this made me think of that. I voted for schorl.
posted by Tesseractive at 11:15 AM on September 1, 2022

I have a tourmaline necklace beaded by my mom. Schorl wins!
posted by Oyéah at 9:46 PM on September 1, 2022 [1 favorite]