Turquoise mineEsmeralda County, Nevada
Tomahawk
Tomahawk turquoise, the lost Blue Belle mine from Morrissey's Turquoise Deposits of Nevada, re-excavated in 2020 for high-grade nuggets.
- Mineral
- Turquoise
- Discovered
- Pre-1960s
- County
- Esmeralda County
- State
- Nevada
History of the mine
A small prospect 100 feet from the Lost Canyon digs, first noted in Frank Morrissey's Turquoise Deposits of Nevada as the lost Blue Belle mine before a 1960s flash flood buried it. Re-excavated in 2020, it gave up several dozen pounds of high-grade nuggets from kaolin-clay pockets before the pocket zone pinched out. Hopefully it will be found again.
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