Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
Bisbee blue
noun · first attested 20th century
The most prized American turquoise was a nuisance byproduct of copper mining.
A deep blue turquoise shot through with reddish-brown matrix, mined at Bisbee in southern Arizona.
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Bisbee
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Bisbee blue
Miners working the Lavender Pit for copper cut through turquoise seams, and the stone reportedly left the site in lunch pails before the company sold it deliberately. The pit stopped producing in the 1970s, so genuine Bisbee blue now comes only from old stock.
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