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A Turquoise Miners Perspective

  • Oct 16, 2021
  • 1 min read

Many of you may know that in addition to being an accomplished researcher of turquoise history Philip Chambless is also a full time turquoise miner. This year following Indian Market Philip and his mining partners Helen and Richard Shull were interviewed by Mike about their turquoise and variscite claims in Nevada. In this video we will learn about three of their turquoise claims and see why turquoise mining is so difficult and why there are few turquoise miners left.



 
 
 

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