Check out the Turquoise in this dig! You can literally see it oozing out of the rocks, and watch me pick up hand full after hand full of the stuff right out of the ground. As I dig away, the video cuts to just some of what I recovered in this rockhound prospecting trip to southern New Mexico, and I show before and after tumbling (no large pieces were harmed by the tumbler - just small stuff). Turquoise was/is a sacred stone all over the world, from the Egyptians to the Puebloans here in the southwest and even to the Aztecs, who traded for it up here, far to the north of their ancient empire. Gold may have been a curiosity or reserved for certain rituals, but Turquoise was the real treasure of the ancient world. I know of several legendary lost Turquoise mines in my area, and I plan to get after them - sooner and faster if I ever get to quit my day job!
26 авг 2024
