 I Need to get my new digital camera out the Mine
site! |
The Indian Mountain mine is located high on the south slope of Bald
Mountain, about 14 miles SW of Cortez, and about 15 miles south and a little west of the
well-known Fox Turquoise Mine. The deposits here were discovered by a local Native
American Shepherd in the early 1970s. The location is at a high elevation, where snow blankets the ground
much of the year, and the site is anything but hospitable. There is no water no
electricity and 4 wheel drice only accesss. |
| The workings at the Indian Mountain mine consist of open pit
excavations, bulldozer cuts and similar surface scratchings. Because it was only
discovered in the 1970s, there are no older or undergroud workings. |
I Need to
get my new digital camera out the Mine site! |
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I Need to
get my new digital camera out the Mine site! |
The Indian Mountain mine is well known for the very fine deep
blue and spider web turquoise it produces. It does not produce huge quantities of
material, but what turquoise does come from here, is often of a very high grade. It is considered by many as one of the
"classic" western turquoise locations, and has been featured in a number of
publications. |
| A gold mine lies to the west. and though it is not currently
producing ore, the deposit does show the close physical location between many turquoise
deposits and gold deposits in Nevada. |
I Need to
get my new digital camera out the Mine site! |
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I Need to
get some digital pictures of my Indian Mountain Rough and cut stones! |
At the present time, we are only re-working the old mine dumps, but
so far this has produced sufficient turquoise to meet our needs. |
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I Need to
get some digital pictures of my Indian Mountain Rough and cut stones! |
