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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ReplyDeleteWhat great new stuff. I have heard of Black turquoise but until now I had never seen any. I loved the information and the pictures were awesome.Keep up the work and bring all the new and old information for us.