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Nevada's Virgin Valley is a source for precious black opal gemstones and replacing woods. Her next career started in 1915 when she was sent to investigate the discovery of opals in Virgin Valley, Nevada, 400 miles (640 km) from San Francisco.
This article is mostly about the Southern valley, which is Northeast of Las Vegas along I-15. The Northern valley is on the opposite end of the State near the Oregon border. The two valleys are approximately 600 miles apart. The Opal mines are located in the Northern valley. [1] The Virgin Valley has mines that are rich in opals.
The refuge contains the very active and popular Virgin Valley Opal Mining District whose mineral rights were grandfathered-in with the establishment of the sanctuary. [3] Rockhounds search for precious opal, agates, petrified wood, carnelian, obsidian, rhyolite, jasper, hyalite opal, and psilomelane, among other semiprecious gemstones.
A Peruvian opal (also called blue opal) is a semi-opaque to opaque blue-green stone found in Peru, which is often cut to include the matrix in the more opaque stones. It does not display a play of color. Blue opal also comes from Oregon and Idaho in the Owyhee region, as well as from Nevada around the Virgin Valley. [16] Opal is also formed by ...
Precious Gemstone: Virgin Valley black fire opal (1987) Semiprecious Gemstone: Nevada turquoise (1987) New Hampshire [48] Beryl (1985) Granite (1985); New Hampshire's nickname is the Granite State: Smoky quartz (1985) New Jersey [49] Franklinite [50] New Mexico [51] Turquoise (1967) New York [52] Garnet (1969) North Carolina [53] Gold (2011 ...
In 1908 more discoveries were made in the Virgin Valley area in beds being exploited for opal. There naturally occurring casts of twigs, limbs, and cracks of petrified wood were found. [1] In 1912 a slab of rock preserving fish, a primitive horse, mollusks, and plants, near Esmeralda Field. [12]
Elsie "Ma" May Jenkins (née. Goodridge) (1887 – 9 September 1974) was an opal and mica miner who worked at Lightning Ridge and Coober Pedy in South Australia and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...