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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum:
Road Creek Agates
Road Creek near Challis, Custer Co., Idaho
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     As of November 2007, I obtained few craters of seemingly uninteresting agate rough and it turned out that there are quite surprises in those agates once they are cut. Most agates would be colorless to white in either banded or waterlines forms, and the agates containing purple, aqua green, yellow and pink colors have been noted. The agates of Road Creek contain what may be most extremely interesting inclusions of any agates I have seen so far, and they come in many forms of moss, sagenite, aragonite fans, and very pointy pseudomorphs after calcite.
    Located within the massive Snake River Basalt beds stretching from eastern Idaho to the western coast of Oregon, it's obvious that Road Creek is one of several sites around central Idaho that produce the agates of varying types and sizes and it seems to be rare to find any colorful agates let alone the rumored Red Plume agates found around Carey.  It should be noted that Road Creek at Challis is at least 70 miles north of better well known Carey where agates with red plumes are found.

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Rough Appearance: Smooth and shallow pitted nodules with brown to orangish tint (not always)
Agates are mostly clear with some white to gray bandings, sometimes with aqua-green to purple tints and inclusions.


Typical agates Common to find agates with moss inclusions Rare purple Laguna-like agate..
With rare red and light aqua green colors Sharp Pseudomorph after dagger-like calcite crystals With "Japanese Ladder Game"
Moss inclusions.
Outstanding shadowing effect.
Whose foot is this?
 Dentritic inclusion in the center
Very weird moss inclusions!
With Aragonite fans and interesting waterline structure.

You can see some Road Creek Agates for Sale at the Online Agate & Thunderegg Shop