STORY AND PHOTOS BY STEVE VOYNICK
North Star Turquoise often exhibits unusual matrix colors and patterns.
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Native Americans once “owned” all the turquoise deposits in what is now the United States, not in terms of today’s legal definition of ownership, but by virtue of discovering the deposits and having been first to mine, work, and trade the turquoise. But after Europeans arrived, the turquoise mines became and remain, for the most part, Anglo property.