Red Mountain Spiderweb Turquoise Cabochons | Durango Silver Company

Red Mountain Spiderweb Turquoise Cabochons

 

Dillon Hartman of Durango Silver Company has just finished a new informational page on Red Mountain Spiderweb Turquoise Cabochons. The Red Mountain Turquoise Mine was in its prime in the 1960's until the mid 1970's . The high grade vein produced a little over one hundred pound of rough material and many have been hunting for that vein since. The deep blue spiderweb Turquoise as shown in this photo is worth about $100 - 300 per carat depending who has it and if they will part with it. We invite you to view our new presentation by following this link - Red Mountain Spiderweb Turquoise Cabochons | Durango Silver Company

Red Mountain Turquoise

The Red Mountain Turquoise Mine produced  very fine Turquoise in the 1960's through the 1970's. Many have been searching for the main deep blue vein since. Red Mountain is known for high quantity high-grade nuggets that are no larger than a dime  and the beautiful dark blue spider web Turquoise vein material that is in thin seams. . Red Mountains top grade material is a hard with tight and fine spider web. Red Mountain also produces colors in the blue green range with a stunning gold or rust-colored spider web matrix. The Red Mountain Turquoise Mine is located in Northern Nevada and  the heaviest production was between 1982 -1985, however, little of the deep blue spiderweb Turquoise was found during this period. Since 1985, most of the mining at Red Mountain has been in the tailings and little is being found.

Red Mountain Spiderweb Turquoise 

The Red Mountain Turquoise Mine is located in Lander County, Nevada. This mine has produced a large quantity of graded Spiderweb Turquoise and the best Red Mountain Turquoise rivals some of the high quality turquoise produced by the best mines in the American Southwest. Red Mountain Turquoise with its intricate often red spider web matrix is usually set in the finest gold and silver American Indian jewelry. The spider web Turquoise from the Red Mountain Turquoise mine is some of the finest, only compared with Lander Blue. This stone has been used in many fine turquoise jewelry pieces both gold and silver by many famous artists.