Dwarves Earth Treasures: Thundereggs, Couchy Creek Thundereggs, Tweed Valley, New South Wales, Australia

Couchy Creek Thundereggs

Tweed Valley New South Wales, Australia

Note: The location is now part of a National Park therefore, closed to any further collecting.

The thundereggs found there have unsilicified rhyolite shells which fiber-like altered cristobalite structures can be compared to those of the Buchann thundereggs from Oregon. The agates are usually "Waterline/Horizontal Bandings" types that are colorless sometimes with greenish to bluish tints. The site is now part of the Australia National Park so any collecting are not permitted there.

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Unsilicified is characteristic of the thundereggs from this location. Acquired thru trade	More silicified than usual. some calcite crystals. Acquired thru trade