Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: Luna & Apach Creek Agates
Luna & Apach Creek, Grant Co., New Mexico
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The basalt beds around Luna and Apach Creek, New Mexico
have produced several similar types of agates all passed as just "Luna
Agates" which leads to the confusion with purple colored Luna Agate from
Northern Mexico. They tend to be found in large sizes under the blanket
of pine needles. Most are fractured, and come in the colors of white, gray,
and faint blue/lavendar and I have yet to hear anything about colors. I
get an impression that they may have formed the similar way the Big Diggin
Agates did which the agate fill in the irregular gaps lined with calcite.
The Luna Agates appeared to have already weathered out out of the basalt
beds and what remained of calcite are their crystal impressions on the
agates. The Apach Creek agates are similar on shape and tend to be darker
colored, commonly with "waterlines" features.
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Rough Appearance: Irregular geometric shapes, usually with calcite
impressions all over.
Agates typically clear and colorless sometimes with faint white to
gray banding. Black one usually from Apach Creek
