🪷 #Cinnabar & #celestite are lucky #crystals for tonight's serendipitous #Gemini #ThirdQuarter Moon (the "Consolation Moon" in Antinous #MoonMagic, says #Antinous priest and certified crystals therapist #MartinCampbell: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/its-cinnabar-for-consolation-moon-by.html 🪷

So I had to go remind myself what #stibnite is because frankly I'm more used to seeing "antimony" still, but...

as much as #sodalite is fun and pretty... listen, it's not chaos. Stibnite is basically chaos in most of its historical uses, iirc!

Also it often co-occurs with things like #realgar, #cinnabar, #orpiment, and #galena... now that's some fun chaos company. Vote Stibnite for chaos!! #MinCup23

#quartz is nice and I'm glad for crystal derived time, but I voted #cinnabar. Quartz is omnipresent, but the trip with single digit aged me and my dad and the guide to Obermoschel was unique. I'm working with quartz for clock signals, have some nice oscillators (Rb Controlled, heated) but my picture shows an old russian low frequency quartz bar I'm didn't come around to use yet. #mincup23 #teamquartz

A vote for #cinnabar is a vote for chaos! We're not with the neat and collected #quartz this year! Pah! Live dangerously! #MinCup23

@NadWGab #Cinnabar has the exact same symmetry as #quartz ! They are both trigonal with space group 3(1) 2 1 ( @MineralCup cleverness)
They both lack a center of inversion, and they are both piezoelectric.
One could imagine a heavy-metal tolerant species sporting cinnabar-resonator timepieces.
#MinCup23

It may sound like that I'm in the pocket of Big Timepiece, but #Cinnabar just looks so delicious but it can't be eaten, but #Quartz has been in a lot of 1980's era TV commercials, so the quite absolutely possibly tasty reddish mineral thing we can't eat can't get my vote.

#MinCup23

I'm all about #cinnabar, for the color, for the fact that it's from around where I live, for the fact that my mom let me have it when I was young (she also let me play with liquid #mercury), it's just a beautiful #rock to look at, too.

#mincup23

https://bsky.app/profile/mineralcup.bsky.social/post/3k6envovktq2x

While I have plenty of various #quartz specimens in my rock collection, I'm playing for chaos this year. The type of chaos that says "this is fun" as it grinds some lush red pigment... made from #cinnabar. Everything's more fun with a touch of mercury, and toxic for it - including painting! #MinCup23

New video this Sunday! In episode 12 of our Off The Beaten Track series we explore Cypress Mountain Drive near Paso Robles in California, and along the way learn a little about Cinnabar and unintended consequences. ETA Sunday AM Pacific time, we’ll post a link here on Sunday too! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Episodes 1 - 11 of Off The Beaten Track are here: https://four.wheel.travel/off-the-beaten-track/

#OffRoad #Overland #CypressMountainDrive #PasoRobles #CaliforniaCentralCoast #EPA #SuperFund #Cinnabar

#Cinnabar #moth #caterpillars on #ragwort here this week.

First noticed a small number here about three years ago.

This year they are everywhere.

Ragwort - a much maligned #wildflower - is the larval food plant of this magnificent moth.

Delighted to see them thrive here.

#nature
#beesanctuaryireland

#photography #material #cinnabar

#Cinnabar #mine near the headwaters of the Clackamas River #rockhound