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Ajax
The small Ajax mine, located in south central Nevada in the
Royston area, is one of the relatively new turquoise mines.
The mine yields stones from light blue with darker blue veins
to a predominant dark green with light blue areas. This latter
coloration is considered quite unusual for turquoise.
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Apache
Apache Turquoise produces a blue/green Turquoise, and a recent
vein has produced a beautiful Green Turquoise with a tight
black spiderweb. This is nice hard material. A small operation.
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Basalt
The Basalt Mine produces a beautiful dark blue turquoise with
a distinct brown matrix. This mine is located in the Candelaria
District. Most of this turquoise forms in a quarts host rock.
Most of this turquoise comes in thin vein. Very Rare stuff as
this was a small mine and is no longer in operation.
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Blue Boy Variquoise - Milkyway
This Mine is now known as Candelaria and produces
the finest spiderweb deep blue turquoise you have ever seen!
Blue Boy produced what is popularly known as Variqouse or
a mix of Variscite and Turquoise, which is usually a beautiful
mix of forest green, brown, and blue with a dark brown-black
spiderweb matrix.
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Blue Creek
The Blue Creek Turquoise Mine is located in the
Candelaria Hills mining region of Nevada. This mine produces
a beautiful blue-green spiderweb turquoise and varascite in
large vein and wafers. This mine shares a mountain side with
the Otteson's Broken Arrow mine. We particularity like the
blue with white spiderweb material this mine produces.
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Blue Diamond
A Rare deep blue Turquoise producing mine in Nevada,
Blue Diamond was mined mostly in the 60s and 70s. You don't
see much of this great stuff around anymore. It is dark blue
with a black matrix of dendrites and triangle shaped black
chert. The blue alot of times is a swirling of two dark blues,..
it is stunning
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Blue Eagle
Cutler Edgar had a very sharp eye and dug for the
top grade . He bought this Mine along with brothers Willis and
JW Edgar in 1940 . It was close to Tenabo, Nevada and produced
only a small amount of spiderweb from 10 years of mining.
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Blue Gem
The Blue Gem mine near Battle Mountain, Nevada produced a great
variety of turquoise, from intense blues to deep green combinations
with a hard, irregularly distributed matrix. While there are
other mines in Nevada of the same name, the Battle Mountain
Blue Gem mine& the Tonapah Blue Gem Mine, which began production
in 1934 and is now closed, yielded the most valuable Blue Gem
turquoise because of its rich color and its hardness. It is
greatly desired by collectors. One of our favorites!
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Blue Ice
Blue Ice Turquoise is from a new find discovered
last year by a prospector named William Murdoch, here is what
he said "I found this near Yerington, Nevada and named
it partly because it looked like blue ice and partly because
I had to break through a layer of ice to get to it."
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Blue Jay
Another beautiful blue Nevada Turquoise mine, located
in the Battle Mountain region. This mine produces nice big
nuggets of blue turquoise similar to Fox, or big spiderweb
vein with a brown matrix.
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Blue Medicine
One of the Edgar's projects. Produced a fine spider
web matrix turquoise, very high-grade and very rare. Almost
a varacite clarity to this stuff.
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Blue Moon
The mine is in Esmerelda County in the Candelaria Hills,
within a mile of the famous 'Blue Boy' Mine, north of Columbus
Salt Flat and Coaldale Nevada.
At an elevation of 5,300 feet above sea level the mine is
only worked during the more temperate seasons of the year.
This mine Produces a light to medium Blue Turquoise, and the
high-grade is a darker blue. It runs in a black chert or brown
host rock.
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Blue Thunder
An exceptionally fine and beautiful turquoise.
Intense, vivid blue interspersed with amazing Redish/Brown matrix
in a very intricate spiderweb pattern. This Blue Thunder turquoise
with was found in very minimal quantity in the early 1980s
and is very seldom seen today. It is highly sought after by
high end contemporary jewelers and collectors, and are rarely
available.
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Blue Warrior
The Blue Warrior mine produces a beautiful mid to deep blue
turquoise with a tight spiderweb matrix. Nice hard material.
This is some of the funkiest rock, the turquoise at This mine
was formed in lava rock. The mine also produces a combination
of turquoise and chrysicola in the same rock.
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Blue Wind
Probably one of the finest, most unknown Nevada
spiderwebs ever. There was very little of This stone to come
out, we only had it offered to us once, even though we offered
to buy all that they could produce! Deep blue with a black
spiderweb. We consider This spider web second only to Lander
Blue! This was another of Cutler Edgars mines.
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Broken Arrow
The Broken Arrow Mine is located in the Candelaria Mining
District of Nevada outside of Mina. The Broken Arrow claims
belong to the Otteson's. What has come out of the Broken Arrow
thus far is a blue and emerald green spiderweb and clear Turquoise
and Varascite, some call Variquoise. The emerald green variscite
is absolutely stunning, it looks like forest green emerald
or jade. Some of the finest variscite we have ever seen. Some
of the turquoise they are pulling out looks like old fox,
the good stuff.
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Broken Bow
The Broken Bow claim belongs to the Otteson's and
at This time is undeveloped. The claim sits on the back side
of the hills the White Creek mine is located on. These guys
are so busy right now it will probably be sometime before
they get to producing this commercially if ever.
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Candelaria Turquoise
The Candelaria mine(s) are claims located in the large Candelaria
Open Pit Copper, Silver, and Gold Mine. The large ore company
leases out the claims to a few mines infrequently. The finest
turquoise is now located in a part of the mine so difficult,
that it is almost unattainable. The turquoise is a good quality
stone of high blue color with an intermittent black or brown,
non-webbed matrix. The high-grade Candelaria is a translucent
dark blue with a redish brown spiderweb matrix. It is a hard,
attractive stone. Candelaria also produces some of the most
attractive Varascite, which comes in a wide spectrum of colors.
Candelaria spider web varicite stone a mine with a rich history
going back to the middle 1800s. This mine produces some of
Nevada's best and most unusual Variscite. This is a very hard
stone, high silica content. This mine produces some of the
most unusual and beautiful stone patterns, no two stones are
ever alike. Candelaria Because it is not frequently available
and the mine is closed it is considered collectible.
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Carico Lake Turquoise
Carico Lake turquoise is named after the location of its
mines on a dried up lake bed in a high, cool area of Lander
County, Nevada. Its clear, iridescent, spring green color
is due to its zinc content and is highly unique and collectible.
Carico Lake turquoise is also found in a dark blue-green color
with a black or brown, spider web matrix. The Mine has been
open for sometime now. A fair amount of This turquoise has
been recovered. The less common lime green turquoise which
is suspect to actually be predominately faustite, is very
very valuable due to it rarety and demand. It is hard material.
This mine is also known to produce rare psuedomorph clams
that are filled with turquoise.
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Carlin Turquoise
This mine is located in the northeast part of the
state. A very small mine. This mine hasn't seen any activity
in many years, except for old stashes, you won't find any of
This turquoise anymore. Beautiful Clarity! Alot of this stuff
is really gel type.. like gem silica.
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Colorback Mines I & II
This Nevada mine Produces a beautifully white tight
black spiderwebbed Chalcociderite as well as a gorgeous green
and rare blue Varascite with a black or brown matrix. It is
excellent cutting material, almost now waste. The Colorback
mine I or in the old days Turquoise Boy mine is one half mile
north of the Badger mine and 3.5 miles North-Northwest of Tenabo
near Crescent Valley, Nevada. Turquoise is associated with an
opalized sill that dips intruding black chert. The chert adjacent
to the sill is brecciated and contains the turquoise. The Colorback
II mine has Chalcosiderite and Varacite material rather than
turquoise as the major find. The Chalcosiderite has a beautiful
black spider web pattern with white, blue, green, yellow, or
orange hues. These stones go great with red coral and turquoise
or by themselves. The Variscite. is a beautiful light green
with black spider or matrix throughout the stones.
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Cortez Mine - FOX
Fox is on of Nevada’s most productive turquoise mines.
In the 1940’s, Dowell Ward purchased the old Cortez claims and
developed them using the names Fox, White Horse, Green Tree
and Smith to differentiate among the colors produced in the
area and to create a larger perceived share of the turquoise
market. The area produces a huge amount of good quality blue,
green or blue-green stone with a distinctive matrix. Most of
This turquoise that we have cut has been a light to medium blue
with a dark color of green of blue spiderweb.
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Crow Springs
Crow Springs, also known as Blue Bird, was discovered in
1909 near Tonopah, Nevada. This mine produces a nice blue/green
mix turquoise with a blackish brown matrix. Small mine that
has seen a little production as of late.
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Cyprus Sierrita
A small american mine located in Nevada that we don't know
much about. It produces mostly a straight blue turquoise,
some with small black matrix. Nice color blue.
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Damele & Damaile
The Damele & Damaile (also known as Damali) mines are
located in east central Nevada near the Carico Lake mine.
Damele turquoise is distinctive because of the zinc content
that turns the stone yellow-green and increases its hardness.
The matrix of Damele is webbed with a dark brown to black
matrix. It's availability is limited because the mines are
small. Due to its rare color, Damele is a collectible turquoise.
The Damele mine also produces very beautiful Varasite, a beautiful,
lime greenish to forest green very hard stone, most people
know Damele for This stone rather then the Turquoise, and
the Damaile Mine is known more for the Turquoise. Damele varascite
and faustite are often misrepresented as turquoise.
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Darling Darlene
VERY RARE Dark Blue Nevada Turquoise from high up in the
Battle Mountain Region. Only a small amount of Turquoise was
produced from This mine. Some very nice high grade gem quality
Turquoise.
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Dry Creek
The Dry Creek mine, which has also been known as the Godber
and Burnham mine, is located in northeast Nevada. The mine
has yielded both a pale blue and a cream white turquoise.
The unusual white to light blue turquoise is very hard. The
color is due to a preponderance of aluminum rather than
copper in the stone's chemistry. The matrix is typically light
golden or brown-gray to gray-black. White turquoise is beautiful
alone in a piece of jewelry and is especially striking when
juxtaposed with other colors of turquoise in a single creation.
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Easter Blue
Easter Blue is an old Nevada Blue Turquoise Mine.
This mine is located in the Royston Area/Bunker Hill. This
mine is a major producer of Nevada Turquoise. Easter Blue
produces a fine quality stone, beautiful matrix. The Easter
Blue Mine is owned and operated by Danny and Dean Otteson
(not sure if This is spelled right).
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Emerald Valley
Emerald Valley is a Nevada Mine that produces a deep forest
green Turquoise. It is very beautiful. Emerald Valley is an
American turquoise and I have seen it on the internet advertised
as Chinese, This is false. It is still being mine by the owner.
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Fox
Fox is on of Nevada’s most productive turquoise mines. In the
1940’s, Dowell Ward purchased the old Cortez claims and developed
them using the names Fox, White Horse, Green Tree and Smith
to differentiate among the colors produced in the area and to
create a larger perceived share of the turquoise market. The
area produces a huge amount of good quality blue, green or blue-green
stone with a distinctive matrix. Most of This turquoise that
we have cut has been a light to medium blue with a dark color
of green of blue spiderweb.
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Gilbert Mine
The Gilbert Mine in Nevada produces a beautiful dark blue
extremely hard turquoise in a quarts host rock. It has a dark
to medium brown matrix. This turquoise almost has a Bisbee
look to it if you have seen Bisbee in Quarts.
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Godber/Burnham
One of Nevada's Best and most well known mines.
This mine produced some of the best material to ever come
out of Nevada. Godber Turquoise is a deep blue with a brownish
spiderweb matrix. Some of the older Burnham material is even
prettier, dark blue with a green spiderweb matrix. Stunning!
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Gold Acres
A small privately owned Nevada Turquoise mine that
produced very little Turquoise. We are not sure whether or not
This mine is still in production. Judging on the availability
we are guessing it is not. Gold Acres is some of the finest
blue Turquoise we have seen. Awesome matrix, a lot of the Turquoise
is multi-colored.
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Halley's Comet
A Nevada Turquoise that has limited production. This turquoise
was lost for a number of years, and rediscovered recently
by the current owner. This stone is very hard, 8 on the mohs
scale. It took ten years to find This mine. Usually a light
Blue with triangle pattern matrix.
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Harcross Mine
Another small Nevada Turquoise Mine. Produces some very nice
nevada looking turquoise medium blue to medium green.
I personally do not no much about this particular
turquoise mine. Would love to know more. Beautiful Stuff!
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Hidden Treasure
The Hidden Treasure mine is definitely as it is named. A
very small mine that is tucked away in the Nevada hills. This
is a rare stone to come by. This mine produces a very beautiful
sky blue turquoise in a light brownish/quarts looking matrix,
a lot like the Villa Grove Mine in Colorado. Nice stuff.
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Indian Blue
The Indian Blue Mine Produces a medium colored
finely webbed turquoise. The mine produces a very fine product
and is usually in a dark black chert.
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Indian Mountain
The best known of the contemporary mines was originally discovered
in 1970’s by a Shoshone sheepherder who stumbled upon a vein
of turquoise on a hillside while tending his sheep. Eddy Mauzy
and his family mined and marketed turquoise from This site to
top southwest Indian artists. Jewelry featuring Indian Mountain
turquoise was featured in Arizona Highways magazine in the 1970’s.
Indian Mountain mine is in Lander County, Nevada.
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Ivanhoe Turquoise Mine
The Original Ivanhoe Mine was located on one of JW Edgars
1100 Acre Mining Leases in his Nevada area and had many beautiful
shades of color. This little mine produced some beautiful
stuff.
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Lander Blue Turquoise
Rita J. Hapgold, a blackjack dealer at the Nevada Club at Battle
Mountain, discovered This turquoise deposit in 1973 while picnicking
at Indian Creek. She collected some nuggets in a can and later
claimed the site as the Mary Louise Lode Mining Claim. Later
that year she sold her claim to Marvin Syme and Henry Dorian,
who formed the Lander Blue Turquoise Corporation. Lander Blue
was a "hat mine" so called because you could cover it with a
hat, only 98 pounds of turquoise was ever recovered from it.
Today This rarest of all Southwestern turquoise classics is
also of the highest grade and thus, pound for pound, the most
valuable turquoise in the world.
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Last Chance Turquoise
The last chance mine is a small claim in Lander County Nevada.
This mine produced mainly of deep blue and black spiderweb
turquoise. Very Rare Turquoise.
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Leaning Shack
The Leaning Shack mine produce as light yellow to medium
yellow green faustite, or to the retail customer "Yellow
Turquoise". This is a small nevada mine and is rare stuff
due to the small production of This material. Nice material.
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Lone Mountain
The Lone Mountain turquoise mine is located in Esmeralda County,
Nevada. The turquoise is noted for its ability to hold its color
and not fade. Usually found in nodules, Lone Mountain turquoise
ranges in color from clear blue to spider-web. Because Lone
Mountain turquoise holds its beautiful blue color well, it is
a great addition to one's jewelry collection, lone mountain
like the turquoise pictured is very rare these days, now the
mine produces a light grayish blue color turquoise. Once in
a while the miners will find a rare fossil that has been replaced
with Lone Mountain Turquoise.
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Lucky Peak
Lucky Peak Turquoise is from a new deposit in Crescent Valley,
Nevada. Beautiful shades of green and blue are being mined
and as they get deeper in the mine the blue gets harder and
darker.
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Marvin Symes' Frog Skin
A small Mine owned by Marvin Symes. It shows unusual and
beautifully distinctive Deep Green Coloring with Black/Brown
Matrix webbing.
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Mastrada
This mine has seen little activity over the years.
This is mostly seam and vein material from what I have seen
.Is a nice light color with light brown webbing. Almost looks
like the dry creek material. Is Hard and takes a great shine.
Another of those hard to find and rare stones. Nevada
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McGinnis Turquoise Mine
A very small quantity and a fair quality of McGinnis was
discovered in 1930 in Nevada. This mine was one of the better
known smaller turquoise mines.
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Miss Moffet
This is an old mine and puts out some of the best colors with
tight black or brown spiderweb matrix. Although This turquoise
has not been marketed much, it is some of the finest green
turquoise we have seen. This mine also produce a very rare
form of turquoise, Psuedomorph Clam Shells, these are prehistoric
clam shells that have had parts of the dead clam replaced
with turquoise. These clams are very rare and valuable.
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Monte Cristo Turquoise Mine
The Monte Cristo mine produced a medium blue or
blue-green turquoise which has a light to medium brown matrix.
A lot of This material needs to be stabilized. More info to
be posted at a later date.
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Montezuma Turquoise Mine
Montezuma is another of the small Nevada Turquoise mines.
Beautiful green and Blue/green turquoise, only small production.
Very nice material! Solid, not much matrix, cuts well. A lot
of This material needs to be stabilized, but what doesn't
need to be stabilized is gorgeous stuff.
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New Lander
The New Lander turquoise is very beautiful! Most
of This material looks like Lander Blue only it is green,
orange, and yellow, mostly green. It apears to be varasite
or chalcociderite rather then turquoise but is marketed as
turquoise, it has the beautiful clarity and depth of varascite
It is being mine across the valley from the Old Lander Blue
Mine.
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Nevada Blue / Nevada Persian Blue
The Nevada Blue Mine produces a beautiful blue turquoise
similar to persian blue turquoise, ranging from light blue
to dark blue. A lot of This material is straight blue or has
little matrix. Some high-grade has a fine spiderweb matrix
with dark brown colored matrix.
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No. 8
The No. 8 turquoise mine in Carlin, Nevada was first mined in
1929 until its depletion. In its prime, No. 8 produced some
of the largest nuggets of turquoise found. A spider web matrix
of colors ranging from golden brown to black set off the unique
bright powder blue background of the stone. High grade No. 8
is deep blue in color and is very rare. No. 8 turquoise has
been a very valuable acquisition, rumors of new stashes of great
quantity threaten the value from a collectors standpoint, if
they prove to be true, of coarse the high-grade will always
be very valuable. One of Cutler Edgars.
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Northern Lights, Nevada
Northern Lights Turquoise mine produced a real
nice medium to dark blue turquoise, some had a red spiderweb
matrix, some was a dark, almost "military green"
color. This mine is located beside the Carico mine about 80
miles north of Austin , in Lander County, Nevada. Lander County
has produced some of the best turquiose in the world. This
mine is currently owned by Brian mason from crescent valley,
and is currently not being mine.
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Orvil Jack
Orvil Jack a who was NOT a one armed miner discovered and
developed the mine in northern Nevada that produces the turquoise
that bears his name. The mining claims where the deposit is
located is called the Blue Ridge in Crescent Valley.
Original Orvil only sought out blue turquoise, and at This
time, I have heard, he would have his helpers simply discard
the greed turquoise in search of blue. The rare yellow-green
color of the turquoise (Faustite and Varasite) comes from
the zinc content. Mr. Jack is now deceased, but his daughter
Grace continues to manage the mine. Only a small amount is
now being produced, and the turquoise is considered very collectible
due to its rare color and scarcity.
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Paiute
The Pauite turquoise mine shares a mountain with the Godber/Burnham/Drycreek
mine in central Nevada. While claims at the Pauite site date
back to 1974, the mine has been actively productive since 1992.
The Pauite mine produces limited quantities of high-grade spider-web
turquoise. It has a wide graduation of blue tone, from light
to dark, with web or matrix in colors of black, orange, brown,
and red. It is hard turquoise and some of the finest we have
ever seen. Recently the miner (Tony Cotner) let us view some
samples of his AAA+ high-grade, and it was breath taking, I
would have to say it rivals Lander Blue.
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Papoose
Papoose is one of Nevada's well-known smaller Turquoise
mines. This mine is located in the western part of Nevada and
produced a small amount of beautiful blue green turquoise with
a brownish matrix.
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Pirate #3
Beautiful Green Nevada Turquoise. This mine is still
in limited production, and is rare on the market. Here is another
Nevada turquoise mine. This mine is in Esmeralda County outside
of the town of Mina, in the Candelaria hills. This is a mine
that goes back in history almost 100 years. This mine is mainly
a producer of Gold.
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Pixie
The Pixie turquoise mine is in the Crescent Valley area of Nevada,
near the Fox, Orville Jack, and Carico Lake mines. All these
mines yield a green turquoise as well as other colors. The Pixie
mine hasn't been worked until recently, sitting untouched for
twenty years. Pixie turquoise is yellow to mossy green and also
occurs in some blues. A gold mining company owns the claim to
these mines, and eventually they will all be swallowed up by
the gold mining operation, therefore, Pixie turquoise is quite
collectible. The Original PIXIE MINE was mine by Doc Ingersol
and another friend in the Bullion District of Lander County
near the Indian creek in the Cresent Valley, Nevada area . The
mine produced a very small Quantity of This Prize Winning Turquoise.
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Pilot Mountain
The Pilot Mountain mine is located in northern Nevada. It is
still producing and is worked by the Ottesons and owned by Nevada
Turquoise Company. The stone is highly admired for its deep
blue-green colors. In addition, it can show light blue to dark
green colors on the same stone. This graduation in color is
unusual and makes the turquoise very collectible. The matrix
is black to golden brown. Pilot Mountain is a hard stone and
takes a good polish. Most Pilot Mountain comes in thin viens
as shown on the cab to the left, but we have recently discovered
some thick vein.
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Prince Mine
This mine produced some awesome Variscite. as well as turquoise.
The Variscite. from This mine is primarily in vein formation
which is located in an area shared by the Milkyway Damaile
Mine. The Variscite. when cut shows a nice strong black matrix
and the green is a nice olive to dark green. But the green
will run into other shades and even turn a yellow. The Turquoise
however, is a medium blue in brown mud. Most of the turquoise
comes in nugget or nodule form and comes from the top of the
mountain the mine is on. Originally This mine was known for
the turquoise.
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Red Mountain
Red Mountain is located in Lander County, Nevada. This mine
has produced a large quantity of graded turquoise and the best
Red Mountain turquoise rivals some of the high quality turquoise
produced by the best mines in the Southwest. Red Mountain turquoise
with its intricate often red spider web matrix is usually set
in the finest gold and silver American Indian jewelry. Red Mountain
spiderweb is one of the finest, only compared with Lander Blue.
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Royston
Royston is a district in Nevada consisting of three turquoise
mines: Bunker Hill, Oscar Wehrend, and the main producer,
Royal Blue. Royston is known for its beautiful colors ranging
from deep green to rich, light blues set off by a heavy brown
matrix. The Royston district is still producing some turquoise
of high quality. It ranges from a 5-6 in hardness for the
highgrade. This is one the best selling stones for our line
of jewelry. This Turquoise is being mine by the Ottesons.
Check out the show on the Travel Channel's "Where to
find Cash & Treasure" 2008 See us hit a large pocket
of killer stuff with Kirsten, Dean Otteson, Danny Otteson,
& Dillon Hartman
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Smith Black Matrix Mine
You can guess where This comes from,...Nevada. Another
small mine that produces great spiderweb material. Very Rare.Very
Significant Part of Nevada History coming from the original
OWA claim prior to 1965. A TEXAS COLLECTOR says "It is
possible that someone named Smith took over a mine and named
it the Smith Mine. But I still think that something is in the
back of my mind. I think one of the old families had a daughter
that married a Smith and a mine with that name came from that."
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Smoky Valley
Another Small Nevada Mine. This mine produced a predominately
medium blue Turquoise with little matrix. What matrix is in
the stone was brownish black. Don't see much of This material
anymore.
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Stennich
This mine produces awesome green shades of turquoise,
ranging in color from a dark green to the very popular lime
greens. The material we have seen and own was seam or vein
material. Always looking for more of This material. Really
neat material!
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Stormy Mountain
Stormy Mountain turquoise mine is located in Elko County,
northeastern Nevada. Along with Blue Diamond mine, Stormy
Mountain is known for producing hard, dark blue turquoise
that includes a blotchy, black or brown chert matrix that
resembles storm clouds. This mine is presently not active
and is an extremely valuable addition to one’s collection.
Another one of our favorites.
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Stone Mountain
A fairly new Nevada mine. This is a small mine run
by just a few people, the Nevada Cassidys. It produces, deep
blue to deep green turquoise with a varying degree of white,
red and yellow-goldish matrix. The Cassidys claimed the mine
in the early 1980's and have been hand and pick mining it ever
since. They also claim that the mine produces translucent turquoise
and blend colored turquoise that comes in a many different and
unexpected color patterns. For more information goto: www.nevadacassidys.com
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Thunderbird Mine
The Thunderbird was originally owned and operated by the Mcginnis
family, before they abondoned it to focus operations on the
Mcginnis Turquoise mine. This mine produced primarily vein.
material. It is of a medium to dark blue color with black
or dark brown spiderweb or blotchy matrix. What little material
was taken from This mine is gorgeous, fairly hard material.
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Timberline
One of Nevada's famous small mines. This mine produced
a small amount of beautiful high grade medium to dark blue turquoise
with thin brownish/black matrix. In the 60s, 70s, & 80s
This small mine became famous, now finding This material is
very rare!
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Tina Gem
One of the Rarest American Turquoise was the highest Turquoise
mine in America, located in the Battle Mountain area of Nevada.
This privately owned mine was a tiny operation and only produced
a small amount of fabulous dark blue Turquoise, almost the
transparency of Varascite. A very valuable stone to have in
one's collection.
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The Tortoise
The Tortoise mine is a new mine in Nevada that we
own and operate in partnership with Nevada Turquoise Company.
This mine produces stellar material!! We have only started on
This mine (we are only 5 feet down in the pit and are finding
AAA grade material! The Tortoise produces green, blue, brown,
white, yellow and red material with beautiful black spiderweb.
We have determined that the mint green and blue materials are
Turquoise and the white material is Chalcociderite, we are currently
having the other materials assayed. We have vein material, nuggets
and nodules. We have pulled out several nodules the size of
softballs, and a piece of vein. that is 3ft x1 3/4ft x 2 inches
thick! All the materials have a hardness of between 6 and 8
on the mohs scale. When you see This material you will fall
in love!
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Troy Springs
An old Nevada Turquoise mine that produces a blue & green
combo Turquoise with light brown matrix much like some of the
Royston Turquoise. A lot of This material has to be stabilized.,
but what doesn't is super high-grade Owned by Nevada Turquoise
Co.
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Turquoise Bonanza
A fine Nevada Turquoise mine which produce a light
to medium blue stone with a goldish brown matrix, a lot of
times both green and blue in one stone. Good hard material.
A lot of This turquoise comes in seam and vein. This mine
was originally a Teungstun mine owned by Carl House, eventually
they found This gorgeous turquoise. These claims are full
of minerals. Turquoise Bonanza is now owned by Nevada Turquoise
Co.
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Turquoise Bonanza Turquoise Jewelry
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Valley Blue
Valley Blue was a small Nevada mine located in the
Lander County region. Located between Austin and Battle Mountain,
Nevada. This mine became fairly famous for a small time mine
back in the 60s and 70s. It produced a nice medium blue to dark
blue Turquoise with black matrix usually in nugget form. A lot
of This material was finished as semi-nugget cabs.
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Verde Blue
Verde blue is a newer claim for
the Otteson family and has been worked very little. It forms
in a soft clay and produces the most beautiful little nuggets
you have ever seen. It looks like old Morenci turquoise from
the 60s and 70s. Once we can rip Dean away from Royston for
a while and get him over there, it ought to be great stuff!!
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Windy Ridge
Nevada has had an uncountable amount of mines over the years,
however most were small pockets and were mined out fairly fast.
Most of Nevadas mines were small and usually mined by
one person at a time. This mine sits above the Godber and Damele
turquoise mines up in the mountain range behind them clear up
on top, thus the name Windy ridge. Very hard stone, This has
got to be the hardest material we have ever cut. Has very high
silica content, This material is even harder than Candelaria.
Runs primarily shades of green, but also lighter blues. Lots
of chert mixed with this material had made it very difficult
to mine. The veins might as well be locked up in Fort Knox.
They form right in the solid granite lot of the mines the material
is in decomposed chert and other rock usually very loose and
fractured. But not This material. Available in small Quantities
over the years.
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White Creek
The White Creek Mine Produces a beautiful white turquoise, and
yes it is actually turquoise, not Calcite or Magnesite. A lot
of This material has a slight blue tint to it, and it looks
a lot like Dry Creek turquoise from the Godber mine. The other
look of This material is very similar to the White Buffalo Calcite
look. Good stuff if you like the white turquoise look, cuts
nicely.
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White Creek Turquoise Jewelry
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White Stallion
This mine was lost for several Decades, Recently
rediscovered. Has been worked over the years but until recently
white turquoise was just not popular like it is today. This
is a very hard stone,you can take a couple of these cabs and
lightly click them together and it is so hard it sounds like
two pieces of glass clicking together, takes a mirror shine.
This mine is a small producer and the material is very limited.
But like all great stone nature only produces a little. This
material will run pure white with just a touch of green or blue
with beautiful matrix patterns. I hear it is coming out of a
site right next to the main Carico Lake claim.
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White Buffalo
White Buffalo Turquoise (actually Calcite) is a
beautiful white stone with fine black spiderweb or kind of
a blotchy matrix that is mine out of Nevada, north of Tonopah.
This stone takes a great polish, cuts like Turquoise and is
commonly marketed as White Turquoise. We really like the black
spiderwebbed version. It is mine by Danny and Dean Otteson.
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White Buffalo Jewelry & Cabs
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White Owl Mine, Nevada
White Owl is mined somewhere north of Austin, Nevada. The
mine owner is being very closed mouthed about it. There is
a lot of controversy surrounding the "white" Turquoises
that are being offered these days. Some people say it's NOT
Turquoise, others say it is. All we know is that when we bought
the rough, we were told it was definitely Turquoise. Roger
showed some of the material to a geologist who affirmed that
Turquoise can come in a white form. Regardless, one must admit
that This material, as all "white" Turquoise, is
very interesting and very beautiful. We have recently learned
that the White Turquoises are usually Calcite, Mangesite,
or Chalcociderite, not Turquoise.
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Zuni
Another small Nevada mine. This mine is located near
the Blue Diamond Mine and produced a small amount of high blue
Turquoise. More history to come as I find it.
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Example Pictures are
not necessarily the highest of grade, rather a good example of a common
look from a particular mine.
I will continue to add to This list
and eventually attempt to have a listing of all turquoise mines that
have existed in Nevada. I need your help! If you know of another legitimate
mining operation or old mine claim in Nevada, contact me at: durangodillon@gmail.com
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