Nevada
Sources:
- Aurora
- Battle Mt.
- Black Rock Desert
- Beatty (hydrothermals)
- Carlin
- Contact (Thundernuts, Paul's Bed)
- Cojote Hole
- Duckwater
- Fish Creek Valley
- Hat Butte
- High Rock Canyon
- Jackpot
- Midas
- Mt. Airy (Austin)
- Santa Rosa Mountains
- Star Mtn
- Techatticup Mine
- Vegas Wash
- Virgin Valley
Aurora
Everything on the ground near Aurora is either perlite balls, broken thundereggs or whole thundereggs. The average size is about eight inches in diameter. The site belongs to the
old gold rush area in Nevada.
size: 55x47 mm
The matrix is greyish and the outside somehow burned black. The filling is not that spectacular but the egg itself is.
size: 90x74 mm
Battle Mt.
size:
A very rare thunderegg with the typical 'Nevada' matrix from the location of Battle Mt.
Black Rock Desert
The thundereggs from the Black Rock Desert aka. Black Rock (Humboldt Co.) are very unique and somtimes very big.
Contact
size: 32x35 mm
The t-eggs from Contact are all so small that they're called Thunder'nuts'. The site is also known as Paul's Bed. This egg is typically filled and has some nice light amethyst crystals in the small pocket.
Midas
size: 61x67 mm
A location somwhere in Nevada, a Midas thunderegg, not golden, but cloudy.