Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online
Rock Shop:
Big Diggin Agates
Sunshine (South of Deming), Luna Co., New Mexico
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The Big Diggin agates are well known to the rockhounds for many
decades,
and featured in National Geographic Society magazines. The veinlike
nodules
tend to be found in large sizes, hence, the name, "Big Diggin Agates".
All nodules are lined with characteristic calcite bands and only 2% to
5% nodules are found with solid and colorful agate, while the rest are
filled with colorless agate, calcite and mainly quartz. The
typical
colors are red, pink, yellow, black, light blue, gray and white and
combo
of bright red, black and white is considered a classic. A small
percentage
of solid agates contain colorful plume and moss structures, coming from
one of Lindsburg's "lost pits" somewhere around the main Big Diggin
site.
The main site is owned Deming Rock & Gem Club and is open only to
the
club-sponsored field trips, weather permitting.
Updated October 2010, new specimen have
2010y
in their code names..
Larger pictures of any interested specimens can
be provided at request
