Thanks yet again for the Royston district coverage, tMet Dean Otteson around 08 Out at one of his claims He was one gem of a man! He sold me one of his idle claims around 2010,and I am very grateful!,
I am enjoying your Turquoise lessons. In 1973 I met two fellows at the Cochise Stronghold Campground. One was an old miner who said he had once found gold in N. Mexico. He discovered it was on patented land (4:10) so he went to Chicago and talked with the widow who owned it. She wouldn't let him work it. He said if she had he would have gone back and "stole me some more!" The other fellow in the campground was there working in the hills trying to find some traces of gold. This so his father who was smuggling gold into Texas from Mexico could claim they had found it at those workings. Back then in 1973 gold was $32 per ounce. His father showed up and decided to trust me. He let me hold a heavy ball of gold with a stamped mark on it. At the time it was about $750. So what would that have been in today's money? The father had a large aloe vera plantation (near the Texas border?) that was in difficulties as they had claimed their aloe vera stopped skin cancer. So they needed a new source of income. 🙂
@@turquoiseinamerica3164 Did you know John Hargis a former Bisbee miner who owned a lapendary shop in Tombstone in the 1980s? He told me this Turquoise story. He and his wife were invited to dinner in Bisbee at the home of another former Bisbee miner. The fellow miner took him out back of the house and uncovered a tarp revealing a large pile of Bisbee Turquoise rock. Liking John he gave him armfuls of this rock. John related "Do you know how many thousands of dollars of rock he gave me!!" I used to have a photo of a chunk of rock John showed me. Maybe 10-12" long. Dark blue with a long FLASH maybe 1/2 inch wide along its length. Chatoyant Bisbee Azurite. Not kidding. I wonder what happened to it? He sold me a cross section of a Bisbee Malachite/Azurite Stalactite I homemade into a bolo. Most of his material came from former Bisbee miners. Likely taken out in lunch pales and pockets. My family were pioneers in St. David so I had many acquaintances in Tombstone. Thanks for the video lessons. I find them very instructive.
@@turquoiseinamerica3164 PPS St. David recently had a heritage day and did a thing on one of my ancestor uncles buried in St. David. Adelbert Lewis Co. H 1st U. S. Volunteer Calvary Spanish American War. He was a rough rider with Teddy Roosevelt. He's on find a grave. We used to have a thick animal collar with a name and 1st Vol Cav. on an engraved metal plate. Supposedly for a mountain lion mascot. I could only find reference to a mascot eagle. Thanks again for the interesting videos.
Если бы Вы жили у нас по-соседству и я могла бы расспросить Вас о своей бирюзе! Но Вы далеко, и это невозможно! У меня есть бусы, давольно старые, в светло- коричневых прожилках. Никто мне не может сказать, из чего они. Я даже разбила одну бусину, внутри у неё коричневая порода и она натуральная, не крашеная. Как бы хотелось, чтоб это была натуральная бирюза, а не другой минерал!
I hate to say this but splitting the screen so we can see the speaker and the stone at the same time is a waste of screen space. While we deeply appreciate HEARING Mike's knowledge, we really need to SEE the stone/gem he's talking about.
Awsome episode!!!!
Thanks
Always so helpful
Happy to help!
Spider web love it so much
Thanks yet again for the Royston district coverage, tMet Dean Otteson around 08
Out at one of his claims He was one gem of a man! He sold me one of his idle claims around 2010,and I am very grateful!,
We miss him
Thank you Mike, particularly for the photos of Stapp's Montezuma!
My pleasure.
I am enjoying your Turquoise lessons.
In 1973 I met two fellows at the Cochise Stronghold Campground. One was an old miner who said he had once found gold in N. Mexico. He discovered it was on patented land (4:10) so he went to Chicago and talked with the widow who owned it. She wouldn't let him work it. He said if she had he would have gone back and "stole me some more!" The other fellow in the campground was there working in the hills trying to find some traces of gold. This so his father who was smuggling gold into Texas from Mexico could claim they had found it at those workings. Back then in 1973 gold was $32 per ounce. His father showed up and decided to trust me. He let me hold a heavy ball of gold with a stamped mark on it. At the time it was about $750. So what would that have been in today's money? The father had a large aloe vera plantation (near the Texas border?) that was in difficulties as they had claimed their aloe vera stopped skin cancer. So they needed a new source of income. 🙂
Thanks. About $42,000 today.
@@turquoiseinamerica3164 Did you know John Hargis a former Bisbee miner who owned a lapendary shop in Tombstone in the 1980s? He told me this Turquoise story. He and his wife were invited to dinner in Bisbee at the home of another former Bisbee miner. The fellow miner took him out back of the house and uncovered a tarp revealing a large pile of Bisbee Turquoise rock. Liking John he gave him armfuls of this rock. John related "Do you know how many thousands of dollars of rock he gave me!!"
I used to have a photo of a chunk of rock John showed me. Maybe 10-12" long. Dark blue with a long FLASH maybe 1/2 inch wide along its length.
Chatoyant Bisbee Azurite. Not kidding. I wonder what happened to it? He sold me a cross section of a Bisbee Malachite/Azurite Stalactite I homemade into a bolo.
Most of his material came from former Bisbee miners. Likely taken out in lunch pales and pockets. My family were pioneers in St. David so I had many acquaintances in Tombstone. Thanks for the video lessons. I find them very instructive.
@@josephbingham1255 Thanks for sharing the story.
@@turquoiseinamerica3164 PPS St. David recently had a heritage day and did a thing on one of my ancestor uncles buried in St. David. Adelbert Lewis Co. H 1st U. S. Volunteer Calvary Spanish American War. He was a rough rider with Teddy Roosevelt. He's on find a grave. We used to have a thick animal collar with a name and 1st Vol Cav. on an engraved metal plate. Supposedly for a mountain lion mascot. I could only find reference to a mascot eagle. Thanks again for the interesting videos.
Я когда смотрю на свою бирюзу днём при естественном освещении, она светится, такой у неё необычный, волшебный цвет
Если бы Вы жили у нас по-соседству и я могла бы расспросить Вас о своей бирюзе! Но Вы далеко, и это невозможно! У меня есть бусы, давольно старые, в светло- коричневых прожилках. Никто мне не может сказать, из чего они. Я даже разбила одну бусину, внутри у неё коричневая порода и она натуральная, не крашеная. Как бы хотелось, чтоб это была натуральная бирюза, а не другой минерал!
Send it to a laboratory.
I hate to say this but splitting the screen so we can see the speaker and the stone at the same time is a waste of screen space. While we deeply appreciate HEARING Mike's knowledge, we really need to SEE the stone/gem he's talking about.
Zoom in.
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@@turquoiseinamerica3164 awesome. I'll go follow you.