Here is a ring I
made with Black Stallion
Black Stallion turquoise
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Black or smoke from another mine
Black turquoise or Variquoise from other mines
The Damele mine in northern Nevada also produces a little smoke or black material. It does not reach the pure black as the Black stallion does but it does smoke out or some stones have a mixture of the dark and the blueish or green colors. Damele smoked material is much different and has many darker colors and a lot of the brown and grayish white shades. Damele for the most part forms in nodules and I have not seen any true vein material although it probably does. I have a hard time with absolutes, Nature proves us wrong every time. The material that came out of the ground when they first started digging and was closer to the surface was more intense in the green shades. As the years have gone by we find less material and lesser quality from this mine.
Here are a couple of pictures that show the smoked Damele cut in to cabs.
copyright @ 2010 James Saunders
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