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Hidden Saddle Thundereggs
Wiley Well District, south of Blythe, California
    The Hidden Saddle refers to the fact that the weathered perlite bed is located on the "saddle" between the high points of a ravine hidden from the parking area. It can be reached only by hiking to it (ignore the first diggings). It was obvious that the people did find some thundereggs with something in them from there and my first impression wasn't good. Even so, I found some thundereggs with solid frosty banded agates and most of the thundereggs are hollow and lined with gray chalcedony. An interesting find is one lined with neon green chalcedony and I couldn't find out what kind of neon green mineral impurity that gave them strong neon green color (no one bothered to have them be analyzed). The agates are generally clear sometimes with frosty banding. Apparently, the Hidden Saddle bed are related to the Straw and Black Hill beds (maybe same lava flow that had been normal-faulted).

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I didn't expect to find this one with banded agate
Found December 2009
Orange (Iron) colored,
Found December 2009
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Chalcedony contains a strong neon-green mineral.
Makes me wonder if there's an uranium mineral in it.
Found December 2009
Typical featureless agate but with a calcite crystal in it
Found December 2009

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