Lead Pipe Springs Chalcedony
AKA: Lead Pipe Springs Agate
Description of Physical Characteristics:
Color:
Lead Pipe Springs Chalcedony is a beautiful
sky blue to a royal blue chalcedony commonly with a red rhyolite matrix.
Blue sagenitic and moss agate also occur.
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Distribution Comments:
Lead Pipe Chalcedony primarily occurs as nodules,
"thunder eggs", around Lead Pipe Springs (now Camp Irwin), San
Bernardino County, California.
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