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Mulligan peak Agates
Mulligan Peak, Clifton, Greenlee Co., Arizona
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    The western foothills of the Mulligan Peak is well known for producing white to gray banded agates sometimes tinted with lavendar to purple. There used to be a road, but there are no longer any easy routes to the Mulligan Peak itself.  The best route to the Mulligan Peak is to hike for at least 4.5 kilometers (2 miles) via the Limestone Glutch along the northern rim of the peak from Clifton before climbing up one of the ravines to the agate fields. It's possible to find some in the washes coming down from the Mulligan Peak.
     The agates found there are typically small, but some larger agates have been found weathered from a specific basalt bed at the foot of the peak itself. Several varieties of jaspers and agates with brown to red plume, black sagenite and moss inclusions have been found at several spots around the peak. Elsewhere are just druzy quartz coated chalcedony pieces or none at all.  The soil around the peak is quite shallow that anyone won't get much even with digging and they would end up hitting the basalt outcrops just below the soil. It's possible to break down the agate-bearing basalt beds to get at the agates.

Updated July 2010,
Note: Mulligan Peak is accessible only by foot (2 miles of hiking) so the supply is limited.z
Larger pictures of any interested specimens can be provided at request

2009yMUPn030-SOLD 2009yMUPn031-SOLD
or $32 for the pair
2009yMUPn033-$25, faint fracture
or $40 for the pair		 2009yMUPn035-$25
2009yMUPn029-$SOLD
with sagenite inclusions		 2009yMUPn034-SOLD