Kingman Turquoise Ring

Kingman AZ Turquoise

The Kingman turquoise mine is located about 14 miles Northwest f Kingman, AZ. It was first mined by the Hohokam Indians, 1,400 years ago. It is one of the 3 sites of prehistoric mining located in the state of Arizona and this was the most extensively worked of the three. This mine began to be commercially worked in the 1880s as a copper mine. It produces a wide variety of colors of turquoise from pure blue to green with a brown or black matrix.