Sunday, December 03, 2006

Turquoise (Part 7)Arizona. (continuation) - The financial and operating terms


Turquoise (Part 7)
Arizona. (continuation) - 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....

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