Digging for Canyon Rim Thundereggs in Central Oregon

What a good afternoon this was at the Polka Dot Agate Mine digging thundereggs. I would highly recommend this location for those who want an easy access fee dig.
Also, if you want to see some photos of the Polka Dot Agate, which is for sale, but you can no longer dig for at the time of posting, you can go to the listing on my website and see some photos of it.
The Polka Dot Agate Miners Facebook Group is the best place to stay up to date with what they have going on at the mine.
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[@afinderstale]

I love this mine! You can learn a lot about thundereggs just by digging here a few times. There is a green pocket in the middle of the dig area that has some great material!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Perhaps we will need to go back!

[@rockercater]

*AWESOME* *CONTENT* *THANK YOU* *CATER*

[@Fishmonger35]

We visited them two years ago and had a great time! Dug some eggs and purchased some nice polka dot agate from one of the piles! He generously gave me a very nice half egg on the house for my birthday! Yep, everything fluoresced under U.V. light.

[@vickygoodwin9771]

Sarah, once again you win!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That's typically the case.

[@tenaedmonson1213]

Very nice place, nice to see a place that has options, a verity, very good price and good hospitality.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Oh yeah! Its a good place to visit for sure.

[@RagnarRocks]

Wow! Eggs for daaaaayyyyyyyyyyys! $2 per pound seems pretty fair! That tube agate is CRAZY! Sucks about the dud

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

$2 per lb seems pretty universal from what I have seen for egg pricing.

[@patrickkillilea5225]

Dang! I'd be stoked on finding just one of those broken pieces! Oregon Rocks!!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It really does have an amazing assortment of rocks and minerals.

[@misterpolytech]

That green Kamraba Jasper look's like it would be beautiful, slabbed & polished!

[@mattrichards1492]

I love that place. You forgot to mention the beautiful drive through the Canyon heading east from 97. Brian and Matt are good guys. The blue mountain orbicular jasper is my fav. Looks like their stock of that has dwindled considerably.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a great place and I'm sure we will be going back again at some point.

[@largent45]

That place is really awesome! Just eggs after eggs after eggs! I think its just as easy to check through the discard piles on top of the dig layer, and choose the egg you want! There were some just fabulous half eggs, that you could just pick the size and look you wanted out of the pile! And $2 pr/lbs is a reasonable price for the incredible eggs you can get there. That looks like my next vacation spot! Thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing your two eggs cut on the website in the future! exciting times!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You should go! The road in is great, the mine is easy to get around and the guys there are super helpful.

[@bustedhammer]

Gotta love those eggs! And jasper too. I must get down there one of these days

[@kylaabegglen1275]

Fantastic video! That place is really something else. Love the half of egg you guys took home. Can't wait to see the others cut. Thanks for sharing your day and awesome finds!✌️🤠

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Thank you! Yeah it was a good time there and I can't wait to get the rest of my eggs cut.

[@inqwit1]

Love the nPolka Dot. Always stop by for a couple of hours on my summer drive from SoCal to Spokane.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Its a good locations for sure.

[@wyomingadventures]

Amazing mine! I would love to go there. On the bucket list now. Thanks for sharing!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Its a great location.

[@outdooradventureswithfayde6832]

Excellent rockhounding area you guys took us to. Eggs on top of eggs on top of eggs, WOW! Those helix patterns were craaaazy! Thats awesome you guys were able to dig in that newer peanut butter clay layer. They really had a huge selection laying around to sort through and buy if one doesn't wanna do alot of hard work for material. This place is going on my list. Thank you again for taking us along! Rock on 🤘😁

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's very much so well worth the visit.

[@patriciamckean4186]

Nice size eggs, can't wait to see them cut. It's like Christmas!

[@khs924]

Ha! Just walked in the door after a fun (hot) day at the mine. Had a blast! 😀

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Get some good material?

[@a3skywarrior929]

Very awesome site! Thanks for sharing so I can update my dream trip! 👊👍

[@TarnishedViking.]

Awesome! Another 1 for the bucket list. Thanks guys! 🤘👍

[@markattardo]

Great place to dig at. Enjoyed the video trip👍👍

[@lorihackett2898]

My husband and I love the polka dot Agate mine Matt and Brian are awesome super knowledgeable real friendly and very helpful the polka dot Agate itself is really hard to cut but it polishes up beautiful we went in June when it was super hot but had such a wonderful time on our honeymoon can't wait to go back

[@rockandfound]

Hey does Matt have long hair? I think I e met him.

[@lorihackett2898]

Matt is the one with the white in his beard

[@rockandfound]

@@lorihackett2898 awesome thank you. Red hair?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Its such a good location, and being able to learn from them is priceless.

[@graemero5532]

Thanks for taking us to Oregon with you. Some amazing stuff on display, and the piles. I could spend a few dubloons there. America seems packed with the wonders of the ntural world. Someday, maybe I'll see it with my own eyes.

[@jamiecummins2964]

Thanks!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Oh my gosh thank you!

[@oregonaje4827]

Interesting place. I’m gonna check that maybe we are going to there. Thanks.

[@joniangelsrreal6262]

Greeting folks good to 👁👁 Sarah…👋 happy to drop by…

[@garnettoll9317]

I admire your will power. My bag would've been full of all your rejects 😂

[@jonathanrood3548]

Great video! I am not really into pay to dig places, but beautiful peices. I am going down to the Succor Creek area this weekend as I am revisiting some known spots. Looking for opal, Jasper, thunder eggs. On Sunday we are going up to graveyard point to find some beautiful agates. Your videos have help to inspire my friend, Andy and I.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm happy to visit them from time to time but I really do like getting out into the middle of nowhere a lot more. I hope you have a great time out there.

[@ocklawahaboyrocks]

Catching up on my watching. You had a very similar experience there to me except far fewer people. Their eggs are really cool and the PDA pit is super cool. Biggest wall of agate I've ever seen.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It was a really good visit, I think it would be a hard location for me to really enjoy with a lot of people around.

[@ocklawahaboyrocks]

@@CurrentlyRockhoundingthis last trip I went mid day after a pow wow field trip to a nearby ranch and before one of their night digs. It was shoulder to shoulder. The time before I was there for a special event where they let us into the PDA pit. Also busy. Maybe next time I can get there mid week. How about that drive up the canyon. It's super pretty through there.

[@nicolagraynewzealandrockho8976]

That would be so much fun

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a great location.

[@evastapaard2462]

I definitly need to visit this place! oh my lord!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a good place to visit.

[@rockandfound]

I bought one down in quartzite from a real nice guy about 8 months ago and it was beautiful on the inside. I also gave him some pieces I found he does excellent lapidary work.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm looking forward to getting my larger eggs cut.

[@rockandfound]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I can’t wait to see them. Btw I have a weird rock that I’ve been meaning to send to you to get a second opinion. I need to get my but to the post office haha

[@sandmaker]

That appears to be geode central. I like the selections you ended up with. Cool! Thanks for sharing your experience. 😷⚒

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I'm very happy with what we took home.

[@therockdad1]

Never been but on my list to go one day

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a good place to go for sure.

[@IvanLopez-zh3xz]

Cool!!

[@maxmillion4442]

John Cooke and the Family Stones amazing people and an amazing company. John is very kind and so is the rest of his team. Only people I get material from now as well lol

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I would love to meet the rest of them at some point.

[@MarkSantos-gj2du]

Awesome rocks🤙👌👍❤️😎 my brother got mei to rocks

[@tylorames1070]

I love that place! I need to go back, but I spent too many of my monies wh3n I was there last... so I'll need to save up first;) lol

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a good location for sure.

[@tylorames1070]

I got a triple from there that I need to cut. It's about 60lbs. My 20in saw can handle the stone, but my vice can't apparently;) lol.

[@rachaelb9164]

I was there the previous month and the whole pit was covered in rainwater. It poured the entire day. The rain made it really easy to see all the pretty agate people left behind.

[@savagesquirrel9828]

Cool place. I think I’d just surface pick…so many cool rejects!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

It's a cool location for sure.

[@michaelgramlich8164]

It’s crazy I have been watching your stuff for a long time and I still can’t figure out what you like lol

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I like it all! I really enjoy thundereggs and zeolites but really I just want one of everything.

[@michaelgramlich8164]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding Good deal Quality over quantity same here I love the show I have been watching your show for ever. And thanks for all educating videos

[@savagesquirrel9828]

So nice they allow dogs.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I like that they allow that so long as they behave.

[@patrickliu4463]

You made it! Glad to see you had a good time. Sucks to get a dud but it's not quite as exciting if they're all gems right?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Part of the fun is in the cutting of the eggs, some will be winners and some will be thrown out back in the discard pile.

[@robertharrison1775]

I would like to see you investigate sulfur. If you can get to a sulfur site.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Is there a reason why you're interested in sulfur?

[@maxmillion4442]

I buy material from John all the time. I love his stuff and his mines

[@garyjones6755]

Most of those eggs luminance under UV lights. I have several and enjoy showing them off.

[@erickillg811]

I’d love to visit that place. One day I will.At the moment I’m sitting at red top made out like a bandit today.Couldn’t believe some of the good stuff that I found. So I have a question about red top and what you know about it. If you walk up the main trail which is also called Teanaway ridge trail. I’ve noticed that the material on the left side of the trail is a lot rockier then the right side of the trail the right side of the trail tends to have more loamy dirt and less rocks. I watch one of your videos were you were getting out pretty good size agates and thunder eggs and it look like you were on the left side of the trail where there is more rock. I tend to prefer the right side of the trail where the ground is more loamy and less rock. What do you prefer to dig in the rocky areas or the mower lonely dirt areas and why. Love the videos keep making them I’ve learned quite a bit so far watching them.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

We haven't spent a ton of time up there at Red Top but when we have been out there we have dug in the dirt in the trees.

[@chetalger873]

I just bought a 24inch saw. Please tell me where I can get some of those big eggs.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

You can go to the mine like I did. I don't think they are selling online.

[@cactusmann5542]

TBH im kind of dumbfounded my this material which im finding which is a mishmash of hematite and low purity chalcedony. Come saturday , I might be cutting my first proper agate,

[@joshbridges9055]

I live in central Oregon. Is digging still open?! I've never been to polka dot agate mine.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

They close for the winter.

[@wolfmama7879]

Caldera flame eggs are lava lake/river rocks.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

what?

[@keithcunningham7925]

that place is amazing do they sell there stuff online or anything like that

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

I do not believe they sell online.

[@lawrencecole6527]

Go Sarah Go! Unless it's Sara then Go Sara Go!

[@judyvareberg2275]

Are you at Richardson Ranch ?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

No but Richardsons is in the area.

[@bohuslav5019]

Is there a danger of finding erionite or other toxic zeolites in thundereggs? It's very cool but I'd be afraid of exposure to fibrous minerals in a place like that.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Generally speaking anything fibrous you should limit the time exposed to it but everyone has what they consider allowable.

[@robertteschke3567]

Where is the location of this place?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

There is a link in the description box that shows where it is.

[@Hinkdogg]

This place is probably busy as ever now that you can’t dig at Richardson ranch anymore.

[@aprilkurtz1589]

Do you know if there are any place to rock hound in N. California? I'm visiting there next Spring and would love to do some easy(I'm handicapped)rock hunting. I can swing a hammer, but walking far is not one of my super powers.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That's not really an area I know a whole lot about.

[@aprilkurtz1589]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding I thought I'd see if anyplace came to your mind. Thanks!

[@mehmetkupeli8611]

where is this pokidot mine?. is that how you say it?

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Please check out the location listing on my website.

[@mehmetkupeli8611]

@@CurrentlyRockhounding i went to your web site.. there is nothing says how to get to that place!

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

@@mehmetkupeli8611 It has exact GPS location

[@yourboyjordan]

Totally didnt introduce the girl in the beginning 🤕

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

If only there were other videos here on the channel....

[@georgegouvas27]

rude, not introducing your friend or who she is.

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

That's my wife Sara, and she's been in hundreds of videos here on the channel. If you watched more than one video on the channel, you would know that.