Elizabeth V
@geolizzy.bsky.social
Ore Deposit geologist turned SAHM. I love rocks and books. Follow for geology and other science, women in STEM, and occasional snarky comments.
Vote for #molybdenite! It’s fun to say, the name tells you it has molybdenum in it, and it’s pretty! Stockwork veins of it are my favorite, like these from Climax Mine in Colorado.
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Vote for #molybdenite! It’s fun to say, the name tells you it has molybdenum in it, and it’s pretty! Stockwork veins of it are my favorite, like these from Climax Mine in Colorado.
Gotta vote for #molybdenite today! It’s one of my favorite ore minerals. Here’s a sample I collected on a field trip to Climax Mine in Colorado. #MinCup25
September 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Gotta vote for #molybdenite today! It’s one of my favorite ore minerals. Here’s a sample I collected on a field trip to Climax Mine in Colorado. #MinCup25
Tough choice for me today. I love both! But I’m choosing barite simply because I loved finding pockets of it when I worked in Nevada. Barite can be pretty too! #MinCup25
September 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Tough choice for me today. I love both! But I’m choosing barite simply because I loved finding pockets of it when I worked in Nevada. Barite can be pretty too! #MinCup25
August 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
What makes me saddest though is that this huge section of Shoshone Nation Forest (i think) is up for sale. A good chunk of it was in my field area for my Masters degree and in my opinion is one of the prettiest places on Earth. It’s also contains high peaks and I know because I climbed them 😅
June 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
What makes me saddest though is that this huge section of Shoshone Nation Forest (i think) is up for sale. A good chunk of it was in my field area for my Masters degree and in my opinion is one of the prettiest places on Earth. It’s also contains high peaks and I know because I climbed them 😅
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that these tracts on a drainage just south of the Atlantic City-South Pass City Gold district are up for sale. I’m sure you can build houses next to gullies, right?
June 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that these tracts on a drainage just south of the Atlantic City-South Pass City Gold district are up for sale. I’m sure you can build houses next to gullies, right?
Though like mining, oil and gas is also very boom and bust so anyone who’s been around for a while is used to it (but it still sucks)
April 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Though like mining, oil and gas is also very boom and bust so anyone who’s been around for a while is used to it (but it still sucks)
Yes I’m religious, I believe in the holy trinity
April 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Yes I’m religious, I believe in the holy trinity
And how if this the first article I have seen about closing 34 MSHA offices? That’s really bad news! Not just for coal, but lots of the offices are in places where we mine other things like gold and copper
March 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
And how if this the first article I have seen about closing 34 MSHA offices? That’s really bad news! Not just for coal, but lots of the offices are in places where we mine other things like gold and copper
This is a screenshot from yesterday. They weren’t even sure if it was an early departure or not 🤭
February 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is a screenshot from yesterday. They weren’t even sure if it was an early departure or not 🤭
Finished my blanket square for a community blanket. Not too bad considering I had to remind myself how crochet worked again
January 9, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Finished my blanket square for a community blanket. Not too bad considering I had to remind myself how crochet worked again
I don’t have strong feelings either way for this matchup of #MinCup23. I went with the #ammineite because it’s a pretty blue and wonderfully weird since it’s conditions for formation need a copper deposit with a guano deposit on top. It’s amazing that the mineral even exists!
September 22, 2023 at 2:19 PM
I don’t have strong feelings either way for this matchup of #MinCup23. I went with the #ammineite because it’s a pretty blue and wonderfully weird since it’s conditions for formation need a copper deposit with a guano deposit on top. It’s amazing that the mineral even exists!
Everyone likes to show photos of clear quartz, but I love #quartz because it can be purple (and other colors)! Just look at this amethyst! Stibnite is cool looking, but it isn’t this lovely color. #MinCup23
Photos from Mindat.org
Photos from Mindat.org
September 18, 2023 at 1:50 PM
Everyone likes to show photos of clear quartz, but I love #quartz because it can be purple (and other colors)! Just look at this amethyst! Stibnite is cool looking, but it isn’t this lovely color. #MinCup23
Photos from Mindat.org
Photos from Mindat.org
When I think about #kaolinite I think about Providence Canyon in Lumpkin, GA (USA). It was formed by bad farming practices in the 1800s. It’s 150 feet deep and one formation contains lenses of kaolin. It was one of my favorite geology field trips! #MinCup23 Photos from gastateparks.org
September 17, 2023 at 1:56 PM
When I think about #kaolinite I think about Providence Canyon in Lumpkin, GA (USA). It was formed by bad farming practices in the 1800s. It’s 150 feet deep and one formation contains lenses of kaolin. It was one of my favorite geology field trips! #MinCup23 Photos from gastateparks.org
Easy vote for me today. My choice is the absolutely gorgeous pink #rhodochrosite which I fell in love with as soon as I saw samples form the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado. #MinCup23
Photo from Mindat.org
Photo from Mindat.org
September 16, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Easy vote for me today. My choice is the absolutely gorgeous pink #rhodochrosite which I fell in love with as soon as I saw samples form the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado. #MinCup23
Photo from Mindat.org
Photo from Mindat.org
Tough choice today! Both are gorgeous and no matter which one wins, it’s a blue mineral! My choice for today is trusty index mineral #kyanite which always gives me a clue to how a rock was formed. And it has different hardness depending on which direction you scratch it #MinCup23
September 15, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Tough choice today! Both are gorgeous and no matter which one wins, it’s a blue mineral! My choice for today is trusty index mineral #kyanite which always gives me a clue to how a rock was formed. And it has different hardness depending on which direction you scratch it #MinCup23
I’m going with #Neptunite for today’s #MinCup23 matchup. It has beautiful crystals, is friends with Benitoite, and it’s named after the Roman god of the sea because of its close association with aegerine (named after the Norse god of the sea) at its type locality.
September 14, 2023 at 2:37 PM
I’m going with #Neptunite for today’s #MinCup23 matchup. It has beautiful crystals, is friends with Benitoite, and it’s named after the Roman god of the sea because of its close association with aegerine (named after the Norse god of the sea) at its type locality.
It’s impossible to crochet a trilobite without thinking it looks like something else. Both patterns were by me 🤦🏻♀️
September 12, 2023 at 10:01 PM
It’s impossible to crochet a trilobite without thinking it looks like something else. Both patterns were by me 🤦🏻♀️
I’ve tried finding out why, but I can’t really. I did see that the Wikipedia page for the IMA list does say the solid version is a mineral and the liquid is a mineraloid, but I could not get any actual version of the IMA to load
September 9, 2023 at 4:26 PM
I’ve tried finding out why, but I can’t really. I did see that the Wikipedia page for the IMA list does say the solid version is a mineral and the liquid is a mineraloid, but I could not get any actual version of the IMA to load
It’s a battle of two colorful danger minerals today in #MinCup23. #Dioptase is my choice because I love that bluish green color from the copper.
And one time I found a piece in my car (never found out who left it) and I graciously adopted it
And one time I found a piece in my car (never found out who left it) and I graciously adopted it
September 5, 2023 at 2:14 PM
It’s a battle of two colorful danger minerals today in #MinCup23. #Dioptase is my choice because I love that bluish green color from the copper.
And one time I found a piece in my car (never found out who left it) and I graciously adopted it
And one time I found a piece in my car (never found out who left it) and I graciously adopted it