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Utah Turquoise & Variscite Mines & Turquoise Facts
Kennecot - Bingham Turquoise Mine
Kennecot Turquoise is a bi-product of the Kennecot Copper Mine in Utah. This turquoise mine didn't produce much high grade turquoise. Most of what we have, and have cut is pretty soft and a light blue/green color. I would love to have some killer Kennecot turquoise. Hopefully we will see some more here in the future and will be able to provide more turquoise facts for the Kennecot mine. If anyone knows more about the Kennecot turquoise mine, please enlighten me.
Utah Variscite
This is some of the world's best Varascite. A lot of this material comes from Fairfield, Utah.
Little Green Monster Variscite Mine
This is what is commonly know as Fairfield Varascite. This mine was open in the 50s and is said to be closed and no longer contain Varascite.
Snowville Variscite Mine
Absolutely stunning Varascite. This material looks closer to Nevada Varascite then it does to Utah Varascite. It was being mine in small production of a rancher's land. He was very kind about it, until the miners got greedy and tried taking a trackhoe in. This event caused the rancher to ban anyone from the area.
Lucin Variscite
This is some gorgeous material, and fairly common at this time. The most common is the lighter green variety. Some of this material can be very dark emerald green. A lot of this material has white matrix.
Example Pictures are not necessarily the highest of grade, rather a good example of a common look from a particular mine.
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