![]() This material looks 100% like what Zuccone is selling as Purple Cow agate and it looks much more like the original than the purple cloud did. Now, fast forward to your question and picture. The purple cow float location appears to have renamed as "purple cloud agate" which made sense because that material had a lot more white in it than the original purple cow. I believe that material coming from the Gary Green location as well as a red version they found has been renamed as Caldera Jasper (correction: the red is Caldera Paint and Gary Green is now being called Caldera Green). Worth mentioning is the connection to our member Aaron wcminer, roy, catmandewe - maybe they can help fact check my details. Around the same time she/they opened the Caldera Rock Shop in McDermitt. Recently (2017 to current), a lady named Leanne Kemp Zuccone (and I believe her father) along with (partnership?) others became co-owners of the Gary Green jasper location, and placed a number of claims around the area including the area Eva and I were collecting as purple cow agate. The material we collected was mostly deep grape purple degrading to white - the finest examples contained red inside the transparent purple agate. I passed out a bunch of rough to members here as slabs and tumble rough and made dozens of cabochons from it. Eva and I visited this site a half dozen times and collected the 'purple cow' agate from this location generally as floating and just-sub surface material. In recent years a local hotel and rock shop in McDermitt published a map of the McDermitt loop and on it was a location that they referred to as Purple Cow Agate I do not know the proximity of this map area to the original pit. ![]() That original material was a rainbow of purples and whites and reds and quite distinctive and beautiful. The 'original' Purple Cow agate was dug from a deep pit at McDermitt - as pictured 3/4 of the way down in this link. Here's what I know, and believe I know about it.
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