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Torpedo Beds Agates (thundereggs)
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.
   The thundereggs from the Torpedo Beds tend to be 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 they may rival 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 that often resemble those of  Laguna, Baker Eggs, Union Road, Coyamito, Moctuzuma and Brazilian Agates..

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

2009yTORn010-$15 TOR2008n43-$15
2009yTORn014-$15 2009yTORn013-$15 or $24 for the pair
TOR2008n12-$10 TOR2008n39-$10

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