Friedrichroda Area
Sources:
- Friedrichroda area
- Brandkopf
- Drusenborn
- Finsterbergen
- Gottlob
- Heuberg
- Regenberg
- Spießberg
- Seebachfelsen
Brandkopf
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One of the two most famous areas for lithophysae agates in Thuringia is the Friedrichroda. This quartz filled egg comes from it's sub-location Brandkopf. It has only one single white 'agate'-band as a rim of the quartz-druze.
Only rough cut.
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A nice biconid egg with a crystal filling which slipped away into one half (it looks like a double egg then). One half of the cavity's crystals are covered with haematite. It's from the Brandkopf aswell.
Drusenborn
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This is a nice quartz filled 'Schneekopfkugel' from a rather new location called Drusenborn. The matrix is bright and with smaller inclusions. The filling is mostly quartz. The source is about 3x3m small and near a busy forest road.
Gottlob
size: 12,5 x 12 cm
Slightly level banding and what a matrix. And a huge egg too, coming from the sub-location of
Gottlob.
Heuberg
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A rather new site in the Friedrichroda area called Heuberg.
I'm still in the progress of grinding it down to one plain surface.
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This egg has a nice agate core with some whitish material (opal, chert ?) as a banding. In the middle of that Heuberg specimen you can find smokey quartz and baryte.
Regenberg
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Another loaction in that area is the Regenberg.
This 'Schneekopfkugel' is filled only with a small banding of red agate in one 'corner' of the egg.
Seebachfelsen
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The famous Seebachfelsen has some nice agate filled eggs...
(Only rough cut)
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... and some druzy crystalized eggs, too.
size: 7,9 x 7,0 cm
A really nice filled Schneekopfkugel from the Seebachfelsen. There's still some bedrock left on the egg. You can find nearly no agate in it, only a bit of colorful pastel chalcedony at the bottom. Some radial grown baryte pseudos with cavities are following the chalcedony and are topped by smokey quartz. At least you can see some generations of whitish quartz filling up the cavity of the egg.
Spießberg
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Great white agate banding, some leveling lines as well, green jasper ans a reddish brownish matrix - a typical 'Schneekopfkugel' from the Friedrichsroda - here from the most famous 'Spießberg' sub-location.