![]() ![]() Sedona Indian Jewelry searches out rare Southwest turquoise and sets it in silver and gold jewelry. Kingman, Ithaca Peak, Burnham, Godber, Orvil Jack and Lander Blue too. that characteristic is called Zat or Brilliance.Īmong the most beautiful Southwest turquoise is Bisbee, Smokey Bisbee, #8, Morenci, Carico Lake, Royston, Nevada Blue, Easter Blue, Pilot Mountain, Red Mountain, Indian Mountain, Lone Mountain. Gem turquoise is very hard, has beautiful color that glows from deep within the stone. thankfully, extraordinary specimens sometimes remain untreated. Most all the resulting turquoise is routinely stabilized. Most all turquoise mined in the United States was a result of the copper mining of the 1900's. Most of the world's copper mining is now in China. The Zuni learned to make silver jewelry from the Navajo, who learned from a Mexican silversmith who learned from the Spanish. Turquoise was first added to Southwest Native American silver jewelry by Zuni silversmiths in the mid to late 1800's. it is a gift from mother earth that will spoil you forever. gem turquoise is a thing of incredible beauty. You'll know gem turquoise when you find it. After over 40 years of searching, I'm here to tell you that less then 1% is gem. It once was said that about 5% of the turquoise on the planet is gem. Lesser pieces have little to no resale value while authentic turquoise jewelry often grows in value. You will eventually want the best, so why not start buying it now. that has deep lustrous color and brilliance and marvelous patterns in incredible matrix. If you want beautiful blue, green, and blue / green turquoise. sections of it mundane with obvious traces of resin. part of it can be near gem and very beautiful. Both can reside in the same stabilized rock. low grade chalk drinks it up like a sponge. Very hard gem turquoise with its tight molecular structure will not accept much (if any) resin. Nature is beautiful in its random nature. The quality of stabilized turquoise, its value and its cost varies greatly. resin fills the spaces between the turquoise molecules. while still in its natural, raw, turquoise state the turquoise is pressurized with resin. It begins its trip to jewelry already better quality then block. ![]() It is mostly plastic and used in costume jewelry. It is sold by mass marketers and souvenir shops. Block turquoise is the cheapest and most common turquoise sold. It is then removed from the mold and cut into the desired shape. The color of Block Turquoise is completely on the surface, with no depth what so ever. It is ground into dust, mixed with resins, poured into a block and left to cure. Block, Stabilized and Gem.īlock Turquoise is quite chalky with almost no color. The turquoise used in the turquoise jewelry sold today falls into one of three categories. Very little turquoise ever mined is true gem quality. Beautiful gem, untreated turquoise, that is simply cut and polished is the rarest and the most expensive. The cost of authentic turquoise jewelry is a function of its quality, rarity and the turquoise mine from which it came.Īuthentic American Turquoise mined from the Southwest, particularly Arizona and Nevada, is considered the best turquoise in the world.
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