Crook County - Wildcat Mountain Area (Ochoco Mts.)

size: 78x79 mm

So here is one new discovered thunderegg bed in the Ochoco Mountains - the Eddy Bed. Discovered in the past years by Ed Pieters who tried to find Queens Point on himself, went the wrong way and found a new thunderegg-bed. Great story and real! These agates are not that big but you can look deep into them sometimes.

size: 55x42 mm

A new jasper bed on the Wildcat Mountain. I was told, that it is right on the other side of the mountain standing at the White Fir Springs beds. The jasper is a bit smoother than from White Fir.

size: 78x55 mm

A not so common site in the Wildcat Mountain area called Queens Point. The eggs matrix is typical green and often you can find long single moss structures in the agates. This specimen has more than 2 agate centers filled with fortification and level banding, as well as quartz filling.

size: ~ 45x45 mm

My first self worked and polished agate ever. Worked it by grating both halves together. It's from the Queens Point bed too, and shows a more brownish matrix with the typical simple star and the single moss structures.

size: 32x22 mm

The TNT-Bed (or T&T) is a rather old bed rediscovered in the last years. The matrix is quite smooth and greyish white. The filling can be crystalized or agatized.

size: 73x86 mm

The famous White Fir Springs beds are also on the Wildcat Mountains. This specimen comes out of the Agate bed. It has a nice colored matrix with slight level banding and some sort of moss structures.

size: 95x80 mm

That t-egg comes from a new discovered bed - Jason Hinkle said "hole" - in the White Fir Springs area. It's called Mud Ball bed cause of the quite large amount of junk/mud balls coming out while cutting the eggs. Certainly these t-eggs have a different but reddish-brown matrix with clear blue agate cores.

Maybe the name "Burning Jade" would fit better!

size: 98x74 mm

That large thunderegg coms out of the famous Jasper Bed. Here you can find multicolored jasper in t-eggs. This specimen shwos nice greenish to red jasper orbs in the typical whitish grey matrix.