Pilot Mountain Turquoise Navajo Silver Bolo-Allison Snowhawk Lee (#104)

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Pilot Mountain Turquoise; aka Montezuma or Troy Springs turquoise; Located at the southern end of the Pilot Mountains among the eastern foothills in Mineral County, Nevada. The Pilot Mountain turquoise mine was discovered in 1905 by William Miller of Tonopah Nevada. The Pilot Mountain claims are now owned by the Nevada Turquoise Company and worked by the Otteson Family.

Small intrusive bodies of argilized quartz monzonite are the host rock for Pilot Mountain turquoise. The turquoise occurs in seams, veinlets, and nodules up to an inch or more in thickness. It is variable in color, ranging through the entire blue spectrum, often with a greenish cast with dark brown to yellow mottled matrix patterns. The best colored and hardest stones generally were found in the hard, iron-stained portions of the intrusive, and the softer, pale-blue stones were in the light-colored, soft parts of the intrusive. Other croppings of turquoise occur on the same hill.

Pilot Mountain turquoise comes in every turquoise color imaginable. The best cut gems from this mine are hard and durable they range from a bright blue, to a dark blue with a greenish cast, to very dark blue. Strong dark brown limonite mottled patterns are associated with this material. Gem quality Pilot Mountain turquoise is very beautiful and desirable indeed.

About the artist:

Allison Lee - Navajo Silversmith:
Speaking of the silver and gold jewelry he hand crafts, Allison Lee's captivating voice is sincere when he says, "One time my uncle told me that everything we build comes from the earth, like the silver that comes from the earth, or the turquoise that comes from the earth. That is a lot of energy. You put it together and you put your heart and mind into a piece. Then sometimes a certain piece of jewelry- I believe- it is made for a certain person. I usually have a ring, or something, that stays with me for about two or three years, until the right person comes along. And then that person buys that piece. I believe that every piece of jewelry that I make is made for somebody out there- it's made for somebody special. Whoever might be having problems, or something like that. In essence, that energy helps that person get help, by wearing pieces that we make. That is the way I look at it. See full biography | See all items by Allison Snowhawk Lee

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When and how the Navaho acquired the art of working metals is unknown but there are reasons for supposing that it was introduced among them, or at least more developed and improved upon by them, since the time they have occupied their present country? More about this legend

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