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Sugar Bowl Thundereggs Sugar Bowl Mine #1, Florida Mtns, Luna Co., New Mexico |
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The name "Sugar Bowl" refers to the
sugar-like quartz crystals lining the white geode
centers within the thundereggs' dark colored agate
cores. The rhyolite shells of the thundereggs are
mostly well silicified but some are poorly
silicified that the shells are tan instead of
brown. The agate in the thundereggs are usually gray, but they can come in white, gray and black colors. Several mining attempts were made at the Sugar Bowl Mine only to discover that the pockets of thundereggs was very small and scattered, and because of that, that area is abandoned and open to rockhounding. There is a great view to the east that even the most western mountains of New Mexico, Texas and Mexico (150 km / 70 miles away) can be seen from the mine. I explored the dumps that have been dumped by the backhoe and found a number of good thundereggs as if they have been overlooked by the previous miners. One dump (from one pocket) produced some thundereggs containing interesting type of reddish to yellowish paper-thin inclusions. Site Status: As of Jan 2022, it's under "Thunder" Claim, please don't dig there without permission. |
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| Classic
"Sugar Bowl" thunderegg |
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| I found
this one at the edge of the reclaimed pit, March 2009 |
With
inclusions |
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| White
are clay minerals |
With a
calcite psuedomorph |
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| March
2006 |
