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Road Creek Agates
Road Creek near Challis, Custer Co., Idaho
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    As of November 2007, I obtained few craters of seemingly uninteresting agate rough, and it turned that there are quite a number of interesting surprises in those agates once they are cut. Most agates would be colorless to white in either banded or waterlines forms, and the agates containing purple, aqua green, yellow and pink colors have been noted. To make the agates of Road Creek more interesting is that they contain many forms of moss, sagenite, aragonite fans, and very pointy pseudomorphs after calcite.
    Located within the massive Snake River Basalt beds stretching from eastern Idaho to the western coast of Oregon, it's obvious that Road Creek is one of several sites around central Idaho that produce the agates of varying types and sizes and it seems to be rare to find any colorful agates let alone the rumored Red Plume agates found around Carey.  It should be noted that Road Creek at Challis is at least 70 miles north of better well known Carey.

Updated June 2010
Larger pictures of any interested specimens can be provided at request.

ROC2008n22-$20 2009yROCn01-$SOLD, large size, some fractures

2009yROCn02-SOLD, faint hint of aqua green color 2009yROCn03-SOLD, faint hint of aqua green color
ROC2008n29-$50, "scared face" ROC2008n30-$30, large specimen