.	Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: Friend Ranch Thunderegg Friend Ranch, Ashwood, Oregon	.

     The Friend Ranch is one of several fee-basis rockhounding site that is still open(maybe?) and they produced what may be considered quite unusual type of thundereggs in Oregon.. The thundereggs has very rough and prickly appearance making them nt look like the typical thundereggs of Oregon!  The "prickles" are due to porphyic feldspar crystals sticking out of the thundereggs and the feldspar crystals had formed in the magma first before released and preserved by the growth of cristobalite forming the thundereggs.
    Typical thundereggs would contain colorless agates, and some thundereggs contain more desired color combo of blue, black and rarely red and the colors are not resticted to the bands. Such distributation of colors can produce the patterns reminding of any objects like face, ghost, animals, whatever.

	Is there a ghost in one of those thundereggs?
Very unusual agate in this thunderegg (see close-up picture to the right)	Closeup of needle-like structure in the agate layers.

Large thunderegg pair