Crook County - Wildcat Mountain Area (Ochoco Mts.)


Up in the hills near the Desolation Canyon and the Mill Creek Drainage their is the Wildcat Mountain with a lot of famous and great thunderegg beds.

Eddy Bed

Eddy Bed
Eddy Bed

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.


(Wildcat Mt.) Jasper Bed

Jasper Bed
Jasper Bed

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.


Queens Point

Queens Point
Queens Point

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.

Queens Point
Queens Point
Queens Point
Queens Point

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.


TNT-Bed

TNT-Bed
TNT-Bed

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.


White Fir Springs

Agate Bed

White Fir Springs "Agate Bed"
White Fir Springs "Agate Bed"

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.

Mudball Bed

White Fir Springs "Burning Jade Bed"
White Fir Springs "Burning Jade Bed"

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!

Jasper Bed

White Fir Springs "Jasper Bed"
White Fir Springs "Jasper Bed"

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.


WM13

That's a brand new location up in the Ochocos. Discovered 2013. The eggs tend to be similar to Eddy Bed but the filling is different and awesome.