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Sec. III, Ch. 11: Turquoise

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The Turquoise.
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especially in Lincoln Co., at the foot of Sugar Loaf Peak. California also yields Turquoise, and Dr. G. Eisen has lately discovered some ancient workings, perhaps Aztec mines, in a desert region in Southern California.
A few years ago, Turquoise was found in Victoria, in Australia, the locality being near the Hedi, in the King River district, where the mineral occurs in veins, running through old slaty rocks, probably Silurian. This deposit has been actively worked.
Turquoise has also been discovered in the district of Bodalla, in New South Wales, but the stone is of no com­mercial importance.
THE PERSIAN TURQUOISE MINES.
The famous Turquoise mines of Khorassan in Persia were described officially in 1884, in a report drawn up for the British Legation at Teheran by General Houtum Schindler, who had held office as Director of the Mines, and Governor of the Mining District. The Shah had granted a concession of the mines for fifteen years to the Mukhbur-ed-Dowleh, -who associated himself with several partners. Gen. Schindler, after managing the mines for about a year, found so many difficulties in working under this Company that he left in May, 1883. For much of the following information we are indebted to his Report.
The Turquoise mines are situated in the Bâr-i-Madèn, a district of the Nishâpûr province, about 40 miles north­east of Sabzvâr, and 32 miles north-west of Nishâpûr, in the north-eastern part of Persia, under latitude 360 28 ' N., longitude 580 20' Έ. The mountains of the district consist of nummulitic limestone and sandstones, resting on clay-slates, and enclosing great beds of gypsum and
rock-salt. On the north of the Madèn valley, the stratified
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