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Royston Turquoise

To Purchase Stones

E-mail me at dnorris@frii.com to reserve the stone or stones that you wish to purchase.

Then you may pay by using any of the methods below.

For Credit Cards (Master Card, Visa, Discover and American Express)

Call me at 303-517-1068, or Fax: 970-586-1838,or E-mail ( dnorris@frii.com ) it to me using two or three emails and that makes it very safe. In the first one, give me 1/2 the number and your zip code.In the second email give me the other half of the number and expiration date. In a third email give me the  name on the card and the three digit security code on the back of the card. For American Express it is the four digit number on the front of the card.

To use PayPal

Just "Send" money to dnorris@frii.com.

To pay by check.

Mail checks payable to Don Norris to Don Norris, PO Box 2433, Estes Park, Colorado.

The first 10 investor's gourps of turquoise below is the first 1,000 stones cut from an investment of two weeks of mining at Royston Mines owned by the Otteson family in Tonopah, Nevada. The mine owners enter into a venture for $5,000.00 per week of mining at several of their mines. All the usable material is then divided between the mine (20%) and the investor (80%). I have purchased two, two week mining ventures, and the Otteson's believe we can do one more two week venture before the end of the year. These stones are from the first two weeks of mining. I put together 10 people that joined me in the venture. Each of these people will receive 100 finished stones from these two weeks of mining. These stones were cut by myself and Duffy, Dean Otteson's nephew. All have a good polish and are ready for setting or wire wrapping. For each of these 10 investors their 100 stones should not cost them anything. After cutting all the 100 stones for each partner I will divide them equally among the 10 people as described in the contract and below, I will keep cutting stones from the material collected for these two weeks and will put them on E-bay, and other web avenues to sell enough to recoup our initial investment. I will be cutting 20 to 100 stones each week. I will also be selling them in person during all the classes that I teach in person.

The process of dividing up the 1,000 stones in to 10 equal packages.

1. I first divided all the stones into all the unbelievable colors and varieties that are found at the Royston Mines. The largest group was stones that did not fit into any one category.

2. I then divided all the stones in each variety into 8 size categories so that each of the investors will get stones of equal sizes of each of the varieties.

3. I then divided each size of each variety into the 10 groups, one for each investor.

Group One of 100 stones.

Group Two of 100 stones.

Group Three of 100 stones.

Please note that it was taking too long to try to get 50 stones into each photo so I began to use three photos for each group of 100.

The camera was still set in the same position so the stones will show the exact same size as the groups above.

Group Four of 100 stones.

Group Three of 100 stones.

Group Five of 100 stones.

Group Six of 100 stones.

Group Seven of 100 stones.

Group Eight of 100 stones.

Group Nine of 100 stones.

Group Ten of 100 stones.