Richardson Ranch Blue Bed Thundereggs

Last June I attended the Prineville Oregon Pow Wow. One of the field trips was to the Richardson Ranch for thundereggs. All the pits were open, but a section of the south blue bed had recently been back hoed to provide a very clean mine face. I dug a couple buckets of eggs there. The eggs I took home were between 2.5" an 5", although a few over 6" were dug by a couple lucky souls.

I cut a little over half the eggs last week before my blade gave out. I have to say that there are some nice thundereggs coming out of the blue bed now, and I'm looking forward to cutting the remainder.

Here are some photos of the blue bed eggs, starting with my favorites.

I miscut this one. Must have been tired as I missed the center. But both the halves of the geode are pretty and interesting. Also some pink which I haven't seen much of at RR.




The next one has a mossy bush like portion on the bottom and a blue fortification background pattern.


Another egg with a small crystal lined hollow. A bunch of stuff going on in this one.


I'm partial to the blue fortification pattern, and a tiny quartz center.


The next one is odd. I like it. Again a lot going on in it: fortification, water line, some opal, a botryoidal material lined cavity and a hanging something or other (stalactite?) Don't know if the opal will take a polish but it is a nice specimen.


Those are my favorites, but the remainder are a very close second. This one is a double with a little appendage arising from the bottom of the right egg that might have qualified it for the recent "If I show you mine..." thread.


A couple more with some moss in them.






I like this double because of the little fill tube running between them.


Another geode...


And lastly







Thanks for looking.