Malheur County - McDermitt Area
size: w x l cm
A landscape jasper called Chicken Track jasper.
size: w x l cm
A landscape jasper called Gary Green Larssonite.
Very famous for the McDermitt area at the boundary to Nevada are the thundereggs from the McDermitt beds. There are several beds, old digs, new digs, floaters and many more confusion.
bright matrix: 67x65 mm
light-blue: 75x56 mm
dark blue: 64x71 mm
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Baby Doe Bed
size: 55x51 mm
A really rare Baby Doe egg with typical dark orange matrix and light blue chalcedony/agate filling.
double: 74x51 mm
Blue Bed
size: 63x60 mm
This one's from the Blue Bed. It has a typical dark matrix.
Blue Bed - Green Skin
size: 93x49 mm
Also from the Blue Bed are the so called Greenskins, with their greenish hint on the outside.
Blue Ridge Claim
size: 64x56 mm
A-typical egg from the Blue Ridge Claim showing a nice blue multistar with nice cloudy structures too.
bright matrix: 73x71 mm
blue-white: 62x56 mm
blue, green moss: 45x53 mm
Boxcar #1
size: 49x41 mm
A small egg (rough cut) from the Boxcar #1 Bed. The filling stand in a nice colored contrast to the dark matrix.
Boxcar #2
size: 39x34 mm
Little McDermitt thunderegg specimen with cloudy agate and some matrix breccia. Sub-location Boxcar #2 Bed.
Cliff Bed
size: 95x61 mm
A nice Cliff Bed double specimen filled with botryoidal chalcedony in blue, yellow and pink aswell as with sparkling calcite.
Cottonwood Creek (transitionals)
size: 58x57 mm
The Cottonwood Creek eggs are not real eggs, they are transitionals. They do have the patterns of both the nodules and the lithophysae agates.
Devils Gate
size: 79x79 mm
This egg comes from the so called Devil's Gate Bed in the Mcdermitt area.
tripple: 178x83 mm
Pinnacle Overlook Bed
size: 77x50 mm
A double egg coming from the Pinnacle Overlook Bed in the McDermitt area.
Praying Hands Bed
size: 103x61 mm
A rather new bed in this area produces many strange looking eggs with a typical shape looking like 'Praying Hands'. So, that's the name of the bed.
Quinn River Bed
size: 79x70 mm
A lot of yellow red moss in this one from the Quinn River Beds, McDermitt Area.
Red Hill Lower Bed
size: 121x81 mm
The Red Hill beds seem to be more rare. This one's from the Lower Bed.
Red Hill Upper Bed
Two thundereggs from the so called Red Hill Upper Bed, a very rare location, as far as I know.
mutiple: 72x65 mm
light-blue: 57x56 mm
Shearing Corral Creek Bed
size: 50x48 mm
A Shearing Corral Creek egg with orange-red jasper and chalcedony.
Golden Glow Claim
size: 59x53 mm
A pretty cool egg with a larger chamber coming from the Golden Glow Claim in the Shearing Corral Creek Bed.
Upper Bed
size: 53x42 mm
Very interesting cloudy agate filling with a druzy part containing quartz crystals in the Upper Bed specimen.