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Round Mountain BLM Rockhound area is actually better known
for its Fire
Agates and as a result, there are scarce mentions of "pink
agates" coming
from the area in most books. After having obtained some
"Pink Agate" rough,
research and explorations had been carried in an attempt
to locate the
exact source of the pink agates somewhere at the eastern
foothills of Engine/Round
Mountains south of Duncan, just off the Az/NM border. The
basalt beds are
quite widespread, all the way to Black Hills and Mulligan
Peak and many
locations along the basalt beds are rich in chalcedony
(pink, white, brown,
yellow) with some coming with "Fire Agates" features. As
of March 2009,
the site finally has been located where I have found four
pink agates and
continued to find some more afterward.
The agates are
typically clear
to white often with "waterlines" features and a small
percentage of those
agates will produce varying pink to lavendar colors. The
interesting feature
of those agates is that each band of the agates are not
solid, but instead,
heavily dotted (or spherical in some cases). Some agates
with black, orange,
yellow and red plumes had been found there. Unfortunately,
few claims had been filed in December 2012....