Locally called as "Dugway Geodes", the Dugway
Thundereggs are some of the well known and locations in the
western states and
they have been dug for many decades. Coming from the clay
layers (decomposed
pertile lava beds), the thundereggs are generally large
sized geode-types
with sugar-like druzy quartz crystals lining the blue to
lavendar agate rims.
It's not often to find the thunderggs containing solid and
well banded agates while red and purple colors are known but
quite scarce. It is not known how much
percentage of the Dugway thundereggs contain solid agate or
geodes since
it's common for them to focus only on the hollow thundereggs
that feel
quite light for their sizes while heavier thundereggs with
solid agates
may have been ignored.
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