Dwarves' Earth Treasures by Jeffrey Anderson


.	Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online Rock Shop: Friend Ranch Thundereggs Friend Ranch, Ashwood, Oregon	.

   I was informed that the owner of Friend Ranch has died (Jan 2009) and the ranch is currently closed to any further collecting/digging expeditions and its future is uncertain.
     The Friend Ranch is one of few fee-basis rockhounding site that is still open to any people and the thundereggs found there has very rough and prickly appearance making them not quite look like the typical thundereggs of Oregon! The "prickles" are the streteched porphyic feldspar crystals sticking out of the thundereggs and the feldspar crystals had formed in the magma first before it erupted. The crystals were preserved by the growth of cristobalite forming the thundereggs after the rhyolitic lava have cooled.
    The thundereggs contain at least two different types of agates. It is more common to find those with colorless agates sometimes with black swirls while many others contain more desired color combo of blue, black and rarely red that are not resticted to the bands. Such distributation of colors can produce the patterns reminding of any objects like face, ghost, animals, whatever (Aparitions).

Updated October 2010, new specimen have 2010 in their code names..
Larger pictures of any interested specimens can be provided at request


2010yFRRn02-$35	2010yFRRn02-$30 or $85 for the pair

2009yFRRn021-$25, single fracture, rare type of agate	2009yFRRn021-$25, single fracture, rare type of agate or $40 for the pair

2009yFRRn023-$50, priced due to its large size