After
noticing a white spot on Earth Google, I approached it and
almost immediately, I noticed an "orange star" over there
along a weathered bulldozer tracks. It turned out that the
"orange star" is a weathered thunderegg core showing orange
to red Laguna-like banding and the name stuck. I asked Paul
"GeodeKid" Calburn about that site and he said that I may
have re-discovered one of Pete Ghitney's several lost agate
prospect sites.
I was able to collect some colorful
agates usually in large thundereggs with dark to light
"mushroom" patterns. The agates are typically colorless
rimmed with reddish orange primary bands and a few
thundereggs contain colorful banded agates comparable to
Laguna Agates. It's really weird to see how the Orange Star
agates are so different from the Baker Eggs even the site is
a "hop" to the Northwest from Baker Egg Mine and the site is
marked with piles of white soil and a wide branching
ocotillo. I thought about filing a claim there, but
when I returned to it with a friend who was to help me get a
GPS coordination, the site was already dug out. After few
test digs, we haven't been able to find more so don't expect
to find any more from there. At least, I was able to
recognize and purchase some Orange Star roughs from the
Spanish Stirrup shop once owned by Ghitney (now owned by
Colemans) and made them available to the collectors.
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