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A quick introduction: According to Durango Silver Company, "Chinese turquoise accounts for over 60% of the stones sold in the United States, due to the scarcity of American turquoise. Chinese turquoise can be just as beautiful as American turquoise, “In fact, China seemed to produce the highest amount of spiderweb turquoise thus far.
The small mine, outside Austin NV, produced turquoise, faucite and variscite, sometime from the same vein. Turquoise and variscite are closely related but chemically different.
I have some cabs from the Bluebird turquoise mine that I purchased from Jason back n the 1990s: By the way, your map and information shows the Nevada mine in the Reese River Wilderness in the Toyiabe range. My husband used to pack into a that area with our horses…maybe we need to go in search of the Blue Bird mine (Ha!).
The turquoise is inexpensive treated stone, probably Kingman, and at the time would have been considered near bottom shelf in terms of price and quality. These were usually delivered unstrung, with the stringing taking place in the shop or trading company which commissioned the work.
Production piecework handmade squash, using fairly low quality stabilized turquoise stones. Likely Navajo. Commercially produced standard bench beads. This piece was likely made along with a batch order of several other nearly identical pieces. The workmanship is very good, especially for a sqash of this type. The silversmith was a professional and it shows in the work. 9 Likes Cheryl ...
