Navajo Pilot Mountain Bolo Tie - Tommy Jackson (#028)
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Sterling Silver Slide set with Natural Pilot
Mountain Turquoise and Coral set on Black
Leather Bolo Tie with Sterling Silver Tips
Bolo - 39" long
Slide - 3" tall x 2 1/4" wide
Tips - 3 1/4" long
Stone - 1 3/8" tall x 3/4" wide
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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.
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Related legends:
Silversmithing
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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