The resulting turquoise ranges in color from chalky white to uniform, robin’s-egg blue (common at Arizona’s Sleeping Beauty mine ... collectors turn up every August for Santa Fe’s Indian ...

Turquoise - the blue and green gemstone - is often seen as emblematic of the West. A couple of listeners have asked about turquoise mines in Colorado. KRCC’s Shanna Lewis spoke with Clint Cross ...

However, turquoise production was closed in August 2012 ... In 1975, the Copper Queen mine, which had produced Bisbee Blue turquoise from Bisbee, Arizona, closed its mining operations.

“The Lone Mountain and Lander Blue mine are coming to be like diamonds," says Raymond, "with how much you pay for the turquoise." “Glittering World: Navajo Jewelry of the Yazzie Family” runs ...

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In the same sense, my best turquoise discovery was in the mine dumps of Battle Mountain, Nev., where bright blue seams of turquoise decorated the muted matrix. On the official list of colors ...

The American Southwest, including Arizona and New Mexico, is chock-full of ancient turquoise mines ... their supplies of the blue-green rock locally, not from distant mines.

Turquoise stones from the blue and green master sets at the Turquoise ... Passionate collectors often seek turquoise from specific mines, many of which are no longer in production.