American Southwest Turquoise Mines Postcard 4" x 6" Set of 100 Postcards.

If you or someone you know has ever wondered where Sleeping Beauty Turquoise or Cripple Creek Turquoise comes from, this is the thing for you. A quality production. This postcard, entitled "Southwest Turquoise Mines", features the painted background image of the southwestern United States (by Carol Prophet) with photographed images of Turquoise samples laying over the areas that they come from. The easy to read labels have the name of each mine near their respective Turquoise samples. It even includes little southwest sketches in the corners with Kokopelli playing the flute. This is the perfect thing for a give-away to your customers and guests. This is a must have for anyone selling Turquoise. Each of these postcards are 4" by 6". Don't let this opportunity pass you by!!!

In Arizona, Turquoise ranks first in terms of value of production and is also the best known of its gem materials. Nearly all important deposits of turquoise are located near copper occurrences or in copper deposits in arid desert regions of the world. Thus, the world famous turquoise deposits associated with certain large Arizona copper deposits are to be expected. Turquoise is or has been mined from a number of these copper mines as a byproduct, usually by outside contractors. The financial and operating terms of the collecting contracts vary from mine to mine. Some of the operations are little more than the efforts of individual commercial collectors. Some are essentially full-scale mining operations that are simultaneous with, but separate from, the regular mining operations; and still others operate on an on-call basis as turquoise is uncovered by the regular copper mining operation. Regardless of the size or the sophistication of the initial mining or recovery operation, the actual turquoise is recovered by careful extraction using hand methods.