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Nevada Turquoise Mines Through Zuni
Example Pictures are either the highest of grade or
a good example of a common look from a particular mine.
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Red Mountain Turquoise
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
spider web is one of the finest, only compared with Lander Blue.
This stone has been used in many fine turquoise jewelry pieces
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Royston Turquoise
Mines
Bunker Hill Mine - Oscar Wehrend - Royal Blue
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
Wonderful and classic turquoise jewelry of all kinds have
been made with this wonderful turquoise. An American Turquoise
Classic.
Boulder Turquoise or Ribbon Turquoise | RoystonTurquoise.com
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Smith Black Matrix Mine
You can guess where This comes from,...Nevada. Another
small mine that produces great spider web 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." |
Smokey Valley Turquoise Mine
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. There were a lot of the nugget turquoise jewelry pieces
made out of this turquoise in the 60s and 70s |
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Stennich Turquoise and Faustite
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! Really pretty turquoise jewelry when made with
14k gold. This mine is well known for its lime green Nevada Turquoise.
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Stormy Mountain Turquoise Mine
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.
This seems to be my mothers favorite turquoise to put in gold
jewelry and turquoise jewelry.
Stormy Mountain
Turquoise Jewelry
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Stone Mountain Turquoise
Our mine is located in high deserts of Lyon County,
Nevada. The mine was discovered in the late 1970's and since
that time we have discovered the majority of our turquoise
by hand and pick.
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.
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Thunderbird Mine Turquoise Mine
The Thunderbird was originally owned and operated by the Mcginnis
family, before they abandoned 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 spider web or blotchy matrix. What little material
was taken from This mine is gorgeous, fairly hard material.
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Timberline Turquoise Mine
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
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Tina Gem Turquoise Mine
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 Turquoise &
Variscite Mine
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! You want to see some gorgeous Turquoise jewelry, you
have to see this stuff in silver jewelry or in gold jewelry.
View
our Mining Tortoise Turquoise Video
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Troy Springs Turquoise
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
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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 Tungsten 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. We have made a fair amount of silver jewelry out of this
turquoise. Great classic looking turquoise jewelry.
Boulder Turquoise or Ribbon Turquoise
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Valley Blue Turquoise Mine
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. A fair amount
of Turquoise jewelry featured this turquoise in the 60s and
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Verde Blue Turquoise Mine
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!!
I cannot wait to see a lot of this in Turquoise jewelry, whether
silver jewelry or gold jewelry.
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Windy Ridge Turquoise Mine
Nevada has had an uncountable amount of mines over the years,
however most were small pockets and were mined out fairly fast.
Most of Nevada’s 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
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White Creek Turquoise Mine
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. This stone makes wild turquoise jewelry, more fitting
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White Stallion Turquoise
Mine
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. Wonderful Turquoise
Jewelry. |
White Buffalo Mine
White Buffalo Turquoise (actually Opalized Calcite)
is a beautiful white stone with fine black spider web or kind
of a blotchy matrix that is mine out of Nevada, north of Tonopah.
This one is getting a little hard to get as it is in low production
at this times. This stone takes a great polish, cuts like
Turquoise and is commonly marketed as White Turquoise. We
really like the black spider webbed version. It is mine by
Danny and Dean Otteson. One of the hottest things to hit the
Turquoise jewelry market in a long time.
White Buffalo Jewelry
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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 Turquoise Mine
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. |
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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