#TUR-001.
ID: Spiderweb turquoise. Location: Phelps Dodge pit, MorenciArizona.
Description: Handsome free form of deep blue accented by bold
chalcopyrite lines. Size: 1.25x .75". Lapidary: Gerry Blair.
Price: $95.
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#TUR-002.
ID: Drilled Turquoise. Location: Not known. Description. Medium blue
turquoise containing a mild veining. Purchase out of pawn upon the
Navajo Reservation. Contains crudely tanned leather suspension. Size:
1"x1.75" Price: $95.
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#TUR-003.
ID: Turquoise. Location: Copper Queen Mine Bisbee Arizona.
Description: Desirable "Bisbee Blue" purchased from a
shovel operator within the Lavender Pit Backed with Devcon). Size:
1.25"x.75". Price: $50.
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#TUR-004.
ID: Spiderweb turquoise: Location: Duval Pit (Ithaca Peak) near
Kingman Arizona. Description: Medium blue containing the
chacteristic chalcopyrite webbing. Size: 1.25"x.75". Lapidary Douglas
McVicar. Price: $95.
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#TUR-005.
ID: Chalcopyrite and turquoise. Location: Duval Pit at Ithaca Peak
near Kingman Arizona. Description. Chalcopyrite creates a number
of medium blue turquoise "eyes". Size:
1"x1". Lapidary: Gerry
Blair. Price: $50.
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#TUR-006.
ID: Turquoise. Location: Duval Mine at Ithaca Peak. Description:
Rare cooperation between turquoise and included pyrite. Contour
cabbed. Lapidary: Not known. Size: 1"x1" Price: $45.
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TURQ-7...Purchased
as turquoise from the Royston Mine, but is most likely variscite
from Fairfield, Utah. The two, both being a copper aluminum
phosphate, can be easily confused. Size:
1"x1/2". Lapidary: Gerry
Blair.
Price: $ 35.00
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TURQ-8...Fox
Mine showing contrast. Color is a creamy blue-green with minor
gold veining... typical of much Fox Turquoise. Size:
1.25"x1.5" Devcon backing. Lapidary: Gerry
Blair. Price: $55.00
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TURQ-9...Extra
large Cripple Creek freeform. Medium blue background accented
by cream spots. Size: 2.75"x2". Lapidary not
known. Price: $55
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TURQ-10...Another
Fox...a large (1.5"x2.5") oval of the two tone blue
characteristic of this Lander County (Nevada) producer.
Contour polished by Gerry
Blair. Price:
$75
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TURQ-11...The
final Fox. A handsome freeform showing rough and highly
polished contrast. Size: 1.25"x2".
Lapidary: Gerry Blair. Price: $45.00
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TURQ-12...A
handsome contrast between Bisbee Blue and a limonite matrix.
Found within the Lavender Pit (successor to the Copper Queen
underground). Lunch-boxed to freedom by a sharp eyed shovel
operator. Size: 1"x1.5". Lapidary: Gerry
Blair. Price: $50
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TURQ-13...Attractive
chalcopyrite (an ore of copper) within a medium blue from the Duval
Pit at Ithaca Peak. Mined about 1967. Lapidary:
Gerry Blair. Size: 1.75"x1.5" Price: $45.
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TURQ-14...Intricate
spider web matrix fills a blue background. Lander County,
Nevada. Lapidary not known. Size:
1.75"x.75". Price: $50.
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TURQ-15...Pair
of handsome Royston's set within looped bezels. Blue-green
background showing typical gold veining. Featured in
"Blair's Flashy Classy Bolo" within the January 1992 Rock
& Gem Magazine. Lapidary: Gerry Blair. Size:
1.25"x.75". Price: $65 for the pair.
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TURQ-16...Medium
blue-green base veined by brown matrix and a high polish cause this
piece to be extra handsome. Location not known...might be from
one of the properties near the Royston in Lander County,
Nevada. Lapidary not known. Size:
1.5"x1.5". Price: $30.
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