New Mexico
Sources:
- Bear Mountain bed
- Clanton Draw
- Pinky Wright / South Pyramid
- Radium Springs
- Biconoid mine
- Foster Canyon
- Snow White mine
- 'Star Geode' deposit
- 'B'
- Soldiers Farewell
Bear Mountain
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A fine thunderegg with moss structures from the Bear Mountain near Silver City (Grant Co.).
Clanton Draw
Clanton Draw has an interesting American folklore story attached to it. Clanton Draw was named after the Clanton gang who had the famous shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. They used the region where these thundereggs come from as their gang hideout.
size:
A chalcedony filled thunderegg from the Clanton Draw area near the boarder to Mexico.
Soldier's Farewell
size: 178x73 mm
Two flat-shaped t-eggs grown together in this Soldier's Farewell specimen. The matrix looks a bit like some Wiley's Well locations.
Hermanas Area
Sources:
- Baker Ranch (Lode mine)
- Butler Ranch
- Blue Star mine
- Pastel Bed
- Geronimo Trail
- Lost Rabbit
- Mine Shaft
- Orange Star Prospect site
- P.D. Claim
- Smyer Ranch road
- Tavenier mine
- Torpedo bed
Baker Ranch (Lode Mine)
One of the most famous thunderegg producing mine in the USA is - besides the Lucky Strike Mine in the Ochocos, OR - the Baker Ranch or Baker Mine or Baker Ranch Lode Mine. The t-eggs are very
unique and mostly red in color. There are some nice cavity fillings and also the stalactitic ones re great.
Here are a few of mine:
#1 - /
#2 - 35x33 mm
#3 - 76x59 mm
#4 - slice - 78x73 mm
#5 - 40x40 mm
#6 - /
#7+8 - pair - 40x32 mm
#9 - /
#10 - 39x39 mm
Tavenier Mine
size:
Quite small but interesting egg from the brother mine of the Baker Ranch - Tavenier.
Little Florida Mountains
Sources:
- Agate Hill
- Black Queen
- Blue Sky bed
- Cherokee John
- Dead Tree
- Eggzilla
- First Gate
- Fish Hook Bed
- Lava Cap
- Maggie's Bed
- Never Again mine
- Over the Hill
- Rockhound State Park
- Sagenite bed
- Sharon's Bed
- South Canyon
- Sugar Bowl mine
- Warmhole
Black Queen
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That's a typical Black Queen thunderegg. Filled with black and white sagenite needles surrounded by a orange-reddish matrix. Absolute amazing i.m.o.!
Blue Sky Bed
size: 42x40 mm
This egg is from the Blue Sky Mine in the Little Florida Mts. It's nicely filled with blueish agate.
Lava Cap
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Really sensational thundereggs oocured in a smaller deposit in the Little Florida Mts. in the past few years. They are quite expensive and can show some great pseudomorphic patterns combined with a fantastic reddish matrix: Lava Cap.
This buddy has only a 'band' of black pseudos around the center of white leveling agate. A stunner.
Sharon's Bed
size: 125x112 mm
Completely new location discovered in the past years. This one shows two eggs grown together quite close with some banding between them. The small druze is filled with milky quartz crystals.
South Canyon
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Typical floater thunderegg from the South Canyon area which is full of locations.
Sugar Bowl Mine
size: 60x64 mm
This little t-rex, eh t-egg is from the famous Sugar Bowl Mine. Most eggs there show a tilted level banding. This one even has no level banding.
Warmhole
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An amazing agate filling with parralax effect and a smokey quartz druze from the Warmhole location.