What are
found at the "Agate Mine" of Mont Lyall, Quebec
may be most eastern thundereggs found in North America so
far and it is
amazing that the thunderegg site managed to escape hundreds
of million
years of erosion. But even so, time have taken a heavy toll
on the thundereggs
themselves where almost all of them are fractured. The
miners have opened
a mine on the thunderegg site, and went after the large
thundereggs, ignoring
the smaller thundereggs. Now it had became a collecting fee
site for the
tourists. The agate are typically white possibly due
to their colors
being leeched away by so many years of weathering, but red,
orange,
peach and tan colors can be found in some specimens. The
colors will seem strong after cutting but will become weaker
as they dry as they lose their water content.
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Rough Appearance: Ivory colored thundereggs with
ridges sometimes
with white agate showing through.
Special thanks to John Walkers for
those thundereggs!