CRIPPLE CREEK TURQUOISE

Cripple Creak Turquoise comes from the Cripple Creek mining area, located in Teller County Colorado. This is a hard stone with color ranging from light and dark blues with brown matrix, and more rarely a golden limonite matrix to blue-green. This turquoise, like Carico Lake turquoise, is found as a by product of gold mining. This history of Cripple Creek Turquoise was first discovered in 1891 by cowboy Bob Womack which turned out to be one of the richest gold mining camps in US history. The 500 mines in the area have yielded over 600 metric tons of gold, making it the third most productive gold district in the history of the United States.