Dwarves' Earth Treasures: Blue Star Thundereggs from New Mexico


.	Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: "Blue Star" Thundereggs Butler Ranch, Hermanas, Luna Co., New Mexico	.

The "Blue Star" Thundereggs were discoverd by Peter Ghitney and his son somewhere in the southern edge of Butler Ranch. The thundereggs from that pit is mostly or wiith narrow cavities and the agates are mostly bluish purple waterline types hence "Blue Star". But there had been some prized surprises such as finding yellow to orangish sagenite inclusions and red to orange banded agates. I have cut a lot of roughs from that pit, and it may not be worth re-opening the mine even it's possible to find better thundereggs if one keep bulldozing it.

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Rough Appearance: Weathered tan thundereggs ("bleached") commonly with waterline agates.


Typical "WaterLine" thunderegg	Rare to find a thunderegg with large agate core

Sagenite thunderegg	Sagenite thunderegg

Don't you hate it when you cut a thunderegg only to find a great specimen spoiled by a single fracture? :)

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