Madras Blue Barite
Thundereggs
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The weather was clear, sunny and brisk,
promising to be in the 60 degree range by afternoon, so we were all dressed in layers. Our ambitions were to find a anomoly known as barite crystals inside of thundereggs. We made our way up to the digging location. The ugliest and roughest looking eggs are best. After looking awhile we met at the tailgate to talk a bit and just for the heck of it I took my pick and brushed aside a group of eggs. Just then Lynda yelled "Freeze". I stopped, and she pointed out the egg in question. I flipped it over. It had blue barite crystals filling its center. It was so beautiful it was hard to believe it was real. We then got excited and dug more but there was nothing more. We kept picking and looking until we hit another find. It was Shirley this time with a gorgeous egg full of incredible sprays of barite. We kept at it and each of us found at least one more good specimen. They were few and far between and took a lot of patient work to find. We carefully wrapped each delicate specimen so as not to damage the fragile crystals. We wished we had brought an egg carton or newspaper to help wrap them, but all we had were paper towels. Aside from getting a dose of sunshine after a long winter, we were blessed with some great finds. We wrapped up around 4:00pm |
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