Badger Turquoise: Field Guide to a Lander County Mine
Part of the Turquoise Mines field guides and The Southwest Jewelry Guide.
Joe Dan and Joe P. Lowry’s 2010 book places the Badger mine on a ridge north of Indian Creek, about three miles northwest of Tenabo, Nevada. Every statement below is quoted or paraphrased from that book, with page numbers, so you can check each one. The book was published in 2010; anything described as current describes 2010.
What Lowry recorded
Lowry (2010) on the name:
“This mine was discovered by Jim Johnson and William Van Alder in 1938 and was named Badger because the turquoise was initially found in a badger's den.”
— Lowry (2010), p. 233 [1]
According to Lowry (2010, p. 233), the land was railroad property and the discoverers chose not to stake a claim; the Edgar family claimed it in 1941, and it was worked by hand-dug short tunnels of about thirty feet. [1]
According to Lowry (2010, p. 233), the mine lies along a ridge north of Indian Creek, about three miles northwest of Tenabo, and as of 2010 was still occasionally mined. [1]
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Sources
- Lowry, Joe Dan, and Joe P. Lowry. Turquoise: The World Story of a Fascinating Gemstone. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2010. Cited by printed page. Statements describe conditions as of 2010.