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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum:
Big Diggin Agates
Sunshine (South of Deming), Luna Co., New Mexico
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.    The Big Diggin agates are well known to the rockhounds for many decades, and the site was featured in few National Geographic Society magazines. The veinlike nodules tend to be found in large sizes, hence, the name, "Big Diggin Agates". All nodules are lined with characteristic calcite bands and only 2% to 5% nodules are found with solid and colorful agate, while the rest are filled with colorless agate, calcite and quartz.  The typical colors are red, pink, yellow, black, light blue, gray and white and combo of bright red, black and white is most desired. A small percentage of solid agates contain pink, red & yellow "flame", "plume" and "moss" structures, coming from one of Lindsburg's sites somewhere around the main Big Diggin site. The main site is owned Deming Rock & Gem Club and is open only to the club-sponsored field trips, weather permitting.
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Rough Appearance:
Geometric shaped vein llined with calcite, commonly in form of broken clunks with quartz or agate showing.
Most rough will have solid quartz and sometimes geodes.  The agates are typically colorless..
Some agate come with pink, red, black, yellow, white and blue colors. Sagenite, and plume structures are more rare.


Shaped like Alaska! Found by Jeffrey A. 
at old Lindurg's claim outside main Big-Diggin site.
March 2005		 Sagenite Agate, from 1974 rough lot.
curvative-polished
Classic bright red, black and white color combo,
Sagenite Agate, from 1974 rough lot.		 With calcite sprays,
from 1974 rough lot.
Rare solid agate from Homer's "Little Big Diggin" Mine, Rare solid agate from Homer's "Little Big Diggin" Mine,
Rare to get large solid Big Diggin agate specimens Rare to get large solid Big Diggin agate specimens

Yellow colored

Go to the Next Page to see the Colorful Plume Agates from 1974 digs