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September 25, 2026 at 5:40 PM

Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨

@drewbrayshaw.bsky.social

ice is a mineral #IceMin glaciologists studying critical minerals at last

June 29, 2026 at 8:45 PM

Brandon Bishop

@brandontbishop.bsky.social

Someone should get California to add #IceMin to their version of the critical minerals list on the basis of water scarcity and snowpack....

Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · Jun 29

ice is a mineral #IceMin glaciologists studying critical minerals at last

June 29, 2026 at 8:49 PM

CatWithGeologists

@catwithgeologists.bsky.social

Today during our #winterwonderland #garden #hedgewatch the humans studied the #mpemba effect. If you throw hot #water into the air it turns instantly into the #ice #mineral 🙀 It doesn't work with cold water. This is pawsome 😻
#physics #weather #cold #winter #mpembaeffect #science #icemin

January 11, 2026 at 10:49 AM

CatWithGeologists

@catwithgeologists.bsky.social

Today our friends reminded us is #PiDay 😻🐾 we almost forgot it🙀
Here is our #winter #Pi picture. #Nature is just pawsome 😻 Pi demonstrated b #IceMin

#mathematics #math #PiTag #mineral #ice #MinCup

A perfectly circular ice plate on a river

March 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Vicky Veritas

@vickyveritas.bsky.social

Shades of IceMin!

September 28, 2024 at 9:38 PM

🔞X-KAI The Overlord🔞

@overlordxkai.bsky.social

Icemin on top of mushroom reaching for Rockmin?

August 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM

Owen Missen

@scimissionowen.bsky.social

Zircon, champion at last! Third final, finally the victor! Only #IceMin has also been in >1 finals (lost 2018, won 2019). Bad luck to #Perovskite, but with the strength of campaigning it's a good chance to win in future! Quartz, corundum and tourmaline are the other prior losing finalists. #MinCup23

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Oct 2

After an intense match with 3757 votes, perpetual runner-up #Zircon takes the #MinCup23 Championship by just 61 votes over #Perovskite!

Updated bracket with Zircon winning the championship!

October 2, 2023 at 1:17 AM

Dots and Lines

@dotsandlines.bsky.social

My birthstone is #IceMin and yes I am going to hijack a meme to hype up #MinCup.

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · Jun 12

My birthstone is the Crystal Gems …

June 12, 2025 at 5:38 AM

Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦

@sambir.bsky.social

Touchstones of truth! And we can help keep it that way by all agreeing #icemin should always be the winner.

May 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Alisa Bokulich

@alisabokulich.bsky.social

Like #fossils? #paleo? vote SEPIOLITE in today's Mineral Cup faceoff btwn sepiolite & mercury (yes I know mercury...we went through all those debates-philosophically interesting though they are-back when they did icemin 🧊...) Vote 4 preserver ancient life #MinCup23
www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaig...

September 9, 2023 at 4:25 PM

CatWithGeologists

@catwithgeologists.bsky.social

Today: dear #Mincup24 team. I sent you greetings from #Switzerland. Look whom I have met today during my #hedgewatch. A very young #IceMin, it formed last night, is greeting you😻 It hopes also to become again part of the #MineralCup in the future 😻
#CatForScale
#geologywithcats

Simbalito is sitting in an outcrop with fresh icicles

September 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM

Dots and Lines

@dotsandlines.bsky.social

Always Team #IceMin!

September 3, 2024 at 8:09 PM

CatWithGeologists

@catwithgeologists.bsky.social

Today the #water in my outdoor #waterbowl / #insect- #birdbath / temporarily #frog pool turned into #Ice the solid state of water which some humans define as #mineral and others not🙀
I have a #Cat nap in my heated bed...

#IceMin #MineralCup #MinCup @mineralcup.bsky.social #CatsOfX

January 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM

Dots and Lines

@dotsandlines.bsky.social

Team #IceMin for the win!

August 23, 2023 at 5:30 AM

CatWithGeologists

@catwithgeologists.bsky.social

Simbalito on #GrandTour in #Iceland. The next stop of our #hedgewatch was only a few kilometres further. There we visited #Svinafellsjökull - #jökull is Icelandic for #glacier. Pawsome #landscape

#travel #ice #icemin #travelphotography #landscapephotography #catsofbkuesky

August 27, 2023 at 2:17 PM

Rose Canardly

@ahaikulife.bsky.social

Ooooo!! I can see it now, IceMin vs. Meat Rock!

September 22, 2024 at 2:53 PM

Dots and Lines

@dotsandlines.bsky.social

I've nominated an interplanetary favorite. Team #IceMin all the way!

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Aug 8

Everything is ugly & incomplete for the moment, but to get you started:

Nominate minerals to compete! https://www.mineralcup.org/mineral-cup-2023

Volunteer to help! https://www.mineralcup.org/volunteer

August 10, 2023 at 7:26 AM

Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦

@sambir.bsky.social

This is undoubtedly the best type of correct.

However, when paired with even a middling knowledge, this philosophy in action may limit one's available lifespan & the size of the piles one is able to amass. Downsides to be sure.

I may be better off staying true to the lickiest of them all, #icemin.

September 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM

Dots and Lines

@dotsandlines.bsky.social

September brings to the internet
A friendly competition
The Mineral Cup, that's what's up
Every year a new edition

Start in 2017
Zircon beat by olivine
Then we had to play it twice
‘18, garnet over ice
2019, IceMin
Took out quartz for the win
2020, magnetite
Though corundum's tough to fight

October 1, 2024 at 5:18 AM