| Locality type: | Beds |
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| Species: | Quartz |
| Formula: | SiO2 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Quartz data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Del Norte Thunder Egg beds, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 228238 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:228238:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 6d8e5d87-ace1-40d9-b177-d16c0cf9f8ca |
| Nearest other occurrences of Quartz |
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| 19.8km (12.3 miles) | ⓘLa Garita, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 23.4km (14.5 miles) | ⓘCrystal Hill Mine, La Garita, Crystal Hill Mining District, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 23.8km (14.8 miles) | ⓘBuckhorn Mine (Adelia; Baltic; Oceanic; Buckhorn; Atlantic; Queen of Sheba; Celtic; Adriatic), Crystal Hill Mining District, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 24.0km (14.9 miles) | ⓘEsperanza Mine (Valardena; Esperanza; Jesus Marie), Crystal Hill Mining District, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 32.2km (20.0 miles) | ⓘHouselog Creek, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 33.3km (20.7 miles) | ⓘColorado Fluorspar Company Mine, Wagon Wheel Gap, Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
| 33.4km (20.8 miles) | ⓘMarble Mountain Deposit, Jasper, Rio Grande County, Colorado, USA |
| 38.3km (23.8 miles) | ⓘMiser Mine (Plutarch; Ballantine; Clara; MS 6607), Decatur NE Mining District (Jasper Mining District), Rio Grande County, Colorado, USA |
| 38.4km (23.9 miles) | ⓘGuadaloupe Mine (Patented Claim: Guadaloupe; MS 2316; Guadaloupe Crosscut), Decatur NE Mining District (Jasper Mining District), Rio Grande County, Colorado, USA |
| 39.4km (24.5 miles) | ⓘPerry Mine (Patented Claim: Perry; MS 2369), Decatur NE Mining District (Jasper Mining District), Rio Grande County, Colorado, USA |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrence and Genesis of Thunder Eggs Containing Plume and Moss Agate Downloaded by [Tufts University]...06:56 07 October 2014 from the Del Norte Area, Saguache County, Colorado DANIEL E. KILE U.S. Geological...Suite E-127 Boulder, Colorado 80303 dekile@usgs.gov Figure 1. View of the Del Norte area, showing Tertiary...nown since the late 1800s, the thunder-egg beds near Del Norte, Colorado, have provided the collector in...interior of spherical nodules commonly known as thunder eggs. Plume and moss structures are three dimensional |
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