dry creek turquoise

Dry Creek Turquoise comes from a small Turquoise mine outside of Austin, Nevada in Lander County. This color of Turquoise was rarely used in Turquoise Jewelry before the late 1990s. The mine was first discovered during the early 1990’s by Nevada’s Shoshone Native American tribe. When it was discovered, cutters were unsure that it was actually turquoise due to...