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Torpedo Beds Agates Hermanas, Luna CO., New Mexico |
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The name "Torpedo Beds" refers due
to the torpedo/cigar-like shape of the thundereggs as a result of being
stretched while molten as the lava flows at faster pace. The site is just
south of Baker Egg &, Tavenier Mine and shares the same rhyolitic lava
beds as those mines and that mine was originally opened in search for scepter
quartz crystals(I found one) but was abandoned due to excess expense of
running a mine on a state land. There are some evidence that like the lava
beds of Baker Egg and Tavenier Mine, the lava strata had been folded and
overturned.
The thundereggs from the Torpedo Beds are almost always small and in form of mostly quartz(sometimes amethyst) lined geodes, but a small percentage of thundereggs contain what may be most colorful agates ever found in New Mexico (if not North America), and even rivaling those of more famous Baker Eggs and Mexican agates. I was so impressed by those agates' color that I am willing to spend a whole day digging just to find few colorful agates and some agates even resemble some Laguna, Union Road, Coyamito, Moctuzuma and Brazilian Agates. Many geodes and few solid agates can be found thru a patient digging and scraping the "dump piles" in search for small nodules and watch out for the little critters like giant centipedes, scorpions, millipedes and even tarantulas (I found those while digging) that make homes in the loose dirt. |
"Torpedeo Bes" refers to the torpedeo/cigar-like shape of the thundereggs
as a result of stretching while molten.
March 2004
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| March 2005 | Strong shadowing effect, March 2005. | "Tillage Agate" March 2005
An evidence of tectonic activity |
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| Amethyst with strong shadowing agate,
March 2005 |
Amethyst geode, March 2004 | March 2004 |
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| Reminds me of Laguna Agate, March 2006 |
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