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Sugar Bowl Thundereggs Found/Dug by Jeffrey Anderson Sugar Bowl Mine, Florida Mtns, Luna Co., New Mexico |
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The name "Sugar Bowl" refers to the sugar-like quartz
crystals lining the white geode centers within the thundereggs' dark colored
agate cores. The agate in the thundereggs are usually gray, and they can
come in white, gray and black colors. Several mining attempts (including
backhoeing) were made at the Sugar Bowl Mine only to discover that the
pockets of thundereggs was very small and scattered, and because of that,
that area is abandoned and open to rockhounding. There is a great view
to the east that even the most western mountains of New Mexico, Texas and
Mexico (150 km / 70 miles away) can be seen from the mine.
I explored the dumps that have been dumped by the backhoe and found a number of good thundereggs as if they have been overlooked by the previous miners. One dump (from one pocket) produced some thundereggs containing interesting type of reddish to yellowish sagentite taking on the forms of plume, blades, ferns, and moss. After finding few thundereggs at random locations around Sugar Bowl mine, I think that it is possible to locate more of such small pocket if one is willing to keep digging (or better, back-hoeing) to find them. |
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All specimens below are found/dug by Jeffrey Anderson
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| Typical thunderegg
with poorly silicified shells, March 2006 |
April 2006 | "Sugar Bowl" Thundereggs
March 2009 |
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| Outstanding white and black colors
March 2009 |
My first find at Sugar Bowl Mine,
March 2006 |
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| Plume-like sagenite inclusions
March 2007 |
Blade-like sagenite inclusions
March 2007 |
Large reddish sagenite thunderegg, March 2008 |
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| Blade-like sagenite inclusions
March 2007 |
Blade-like sagenite inclusions
March 2007 |
You
can see some Sugar Bowl Thundereggs for Sale at the Online Agate &
Thunderegg Shop