New Mexico


Sources:

 

  • Bear Mountain bed
  • Clanton Draw
  • Pinky Wright / South Pyramid
  • Radium Springs
  1. Biconoid mine
  2. Foster Canyon
  3. Snow White mine
  4. 'Star Geode' deposit
  5. 'B'
  • Soldiers Farewell

 



Bear Mountain

Bear Mountain bed
Bear Mountain bed

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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.

Clanton Draw
Clanton Draw

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A chalcedony filled thunderegg from the Clanton Draw area near the boarder to Mexico.


Soldier's Farewell

Soldier's Farewell
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

Tavenier Mine
Tavenier Mine

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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

Black Queen
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

Blue Sky Mine
Blue Sky Mine

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

Lava Cap
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

Sharon's Bed
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

South Canyon "floater"
South Canyon "floater"

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Typical floater thunderegg from the South Canyon area which is full of locations.


Sugar Bowl Mine

Sugar Bowl Mine
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

Warmhole
Warmhole

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An amazing agate filling with parralax effect and a smokey quartz druze from the Warmhole location.