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Nevada Turquoise Mines through Lucky Peak
Example Pictures are either the highest of grade or
a good example of a common look from a particular mine.
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Damele & Damaile Turquoise, Variscite
and Faustite Mine
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. I love
this stone in Turquoise Jewelry and especially in gold turquoise jewelry.
Buy Damale Turquoise Jewelry
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Darling Darlene Turquoise Mine
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.
Another American Turquoise classic.
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Dry Creek Turquoise
Mine
The Dry Creek mine, which has also been known as the Godber
and Burnham mine, and now famous as the Sacred Buffalo, 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 gold
or silver jewelry creation.
More About Drycreek or Sacred Buffalo Turquoise | Buy Dry Creek Turquoise
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Easter Blue Mine
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). A classic staple in Native
American jewelry. This can also be seen in some modern silver
and turquoise jewelry. An Classic in American Turquoise.
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Emerald Valley Turquoise Mine
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.
This is an exceptional stone to put into Gold Jewelry. Most
makes its way into modern silver and turquoise jewelry.
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Fox Turquoise Mine
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
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Gilbert Turquoise 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. A wonderful
example of American Turquoise. You will definitely see some
of this being sold as Bisbee in Turquoise jewelry.
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Godber/Burnham Turquoise
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
spider web matrix. Some of the older Burnham material is even
prettier, dark blue with a green spider web matrix. Stunning!
You can see some of this in high end old pawn silver jewelry
and some gold and turquoise jewelry.
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Gold Acres Turquoise Mine
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
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Haley's Comet Turquoise Mine
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. This mine is owned and
operated by Durango Silver Co. and Nevada Turquoise Company.
Look for it in our silver jewelry.
Buy Haley's Comet Turquoise Jewelry
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Harcross Mine Turquoise Mine
Another small Nevada Turquoise Mine. Produces some
very nice "non-Nevada" looking turquoise medium
blue to medium green. Beautiful
Stuff! This turquoise mine produces turquoise that looks a
lot like Turquoise Mountain Arizona turquoise. Have not seen
any of this in silver jewelry yet.
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Hidden Treasure Turquoise Mine
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. I have seen some if this sold as Villa Grove in
Turquoise Jewelry.
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Indian Blue Turquoise Mine
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. Nice stuff, haven't seen a
lot, but what I saw was pretty dang nice. Would love to put
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Indian Mountain Turquoise Mine
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 Mine
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. Bang Bang..... you know this
is expensive silver and gold turquoise jewelry. The highest
of all American Turquoise. |

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Last Chance Turquoise Mine
The last chance mine is a small claim in Lander
County Nevada. This mine produced mainly of deep blue and
black spider web turquoise. Very Rare Turquoise. A lot of this
turquoise was sold in turquoise jewelry as Lander Blue to
those who did not know what they were looking at.
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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. This stuff makes
some interesting silver jewelry.
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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. An American Turquoise Classic. |
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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
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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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