Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: Orange Star Thundereggs
Orange Star Prospect Site, Hermanas, Luna Co., New Mexico
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This is one of few thunderegg sites I discovered (or
re-discovered) on my own. I spotted some white rocks and approached
them. Almost immediately, I noticed an "orange star" over there. It turned
out that the "orange star" is a weathered thunderegg core showing orange
to red Laguna-like banding and the name stuck. I asked Paul "GeodeKid"
Calburn about that site and he said that I may have re-discovered one of
Peter Ghitney's several lost agate mines that Peter was forced to bury
due to the problems with government officers.
I'm still exploring that site when I have a chance
to try to locate the excat spot that produced the large agate cores. It
seems to me that the agates tend to be small in large thundereggs and are
typically colorless rimmed with reddish primary bands. I found several
showing very good bluish-gray banding wtih centers tinted with yellowish
to tan colors and only one so far with strong Laguna-like yellow, red and
orange colors (so far). It is not known if I can find more since I just
started on the surface and I don't have any permits to use any machines
to expose the site.
