Rockhounding Central Oregon: Lucky Strike Thundereggs
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Had a fantastic rockhounding trip out at Lucky Strike! Digging for thundereggs here is incredibly fun. The thunder eggs tend to be filled with agate/chalcedony that have red inclusions and patterns (some are geodes). 2020 is the last season that the Lucky Strike Mine will be open, so make sure to go soon if you're interested in digging here.
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Thunder eggs are formed when lava flows over other rocks or sand, which melt and become transformed. Pea sized thunder eggs are common in stream beds and beaches, where tributaries meet the Columbia River as it flows through the Cascades. The Gorge was formed by this river cutting through the layers of basaltic upwelling. Many years would pass between lava flows, during which time the rivers would deposit sand at the confluences. This sand would get subsumed in subsequent upwelling flows, melt and form "silica bubbles" in the cooling lava. In many cases, all that would be left is the crystalline shell, the egg shell, into which would be deposited minerals, by water, through cracks, in a similar process to the way cellulose and fiber is replaced by minerals, when wood is petrified.
Rick Keller, thank you for explaining what thunder eggs are, I was feeling pretty dumb
@@laurabryce6544 Wow, thanks for noticing! I think feeling dumb is a human thing, we all feel dumb now and then, one might even suppose that recording one's profundity on rocks in UA-cam comments might be a consequence of it.
Kelly we miss the Ochocos so much. We have a few spots there that always produce crystal beds, pet wood, agates and even fossilized coral. We are in so Oregon now and just bought a home. Just dug up a huge piece of pet wood on our property😲 guess I don't have to travel far anymore. Loved the video
Thank you! I absolutely love the Ochocos. I wish I lived closer so I could rockhound there more.
I wonder if a Geode with a (copper filled) Sunstone INSIDE, has ever been found?
never found a thunder egg, and it a little far to come across the pond, but sure enjoyed the video and your finds, it's real worth the hard work, nice have a good day
This is super cool though. Looks like lots of fun. Congratulations
ah nice rock hounding hah it so hard to to pick some nice rock.
Very nice! I want to find some of those. Thanks for sharing this. Great video.
thank you!!
2:58 nooooo that one would of been so good whole. I was just out there as well. I'm glad I went as its the last season out there. I hope you start to upload more here.
I’m hoping to go there one more time this season!
So I am new to thunder eggs aren't you going to cut them in half anyways? So why would it be better whole?
Wow amazing finds..a bit of work but its definitely worth it...my god ya'll found nothing but big ones
We definitely had a blast. But others have found even bigger ones than these!
Nice work!
Looks like so much fun!!
Lucky Duck! I've never found thunder eggs!
Oregon is where it's at for thundereggs:)
@@kellylovesrocks Don't forget about our lovely blue thundereggs up here in central Washington.
Currently Rockhounding oh, I know! :) I’ve dug teggs in WA on an almost weekly basis for years. But for someone new, Oregon is far more prolific.
ive never found one too
Just pulled to amazing baseball size eggs out of the woods of prineville, took about 2 hours. Some small ones too.
That's fantastic!!
@@kellylovesrocks ye I'm super excited to cut them.
Love these. Hope you make more. You know I filmed some video at richardsons and never ended up uploading a video. My wife is really into sunstones so maybe we will do one on those sometime.
I still haven't made it down to the sunstone mines, but they're definitely on my list!
@@kellylovesrocks how about glass butte? I been meaning to make a video there. Free obsidian!
@@MattCookOregon I haven't been there yet. I'm not a huge obsidian fan, but it is supposed to be a great place with abundant material. Hope to make it out there at some point.
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thank you!!!
I did not know Lucky Strike was closing. Only been rockhounding a few years. It is/was on my list to go there.
It's really unfortunate, but it's a lot of work on the mine owners' part to keep it open to the public. I went twice this year just to make sure I got some eggs while I could:)
I guess I will go buy a few at the store in Mitchell
I know about lots of work. Was a former business owner with 20 employees
@@brucevanderzanden9638 Definitely a great place to pick some up!
I have four whole thunder eggs from the "Devils punch bowl" in California.
I thought they were geodes until I seen this video.
Devils Punch Bowl in the Siskiyou mountains near the Bear Basins? I haven't ran into to many other people that know that area. One of my favorite.
Did you leave the ones that had broken open as you pried them out?
Did you window the broken ones that you dug up?
Hello good morning friends what is the usefull of stone oregons, it is witch stone ?
Oregon competes with all state on Rockhounding Adventure areas.
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Just a thought. Not judging at all. But at what point are we stealing from nature?
Not stealing, sharing it's beauty..
Why don’t you clean around the rock first instead of trying to billy it out? No wonder they keep breaking on you for being a pro maybe try to use common sense