Price: $50.00
Details
- The name "Persian Turquoise" is now generally used to refer to any turquoise stone that does not have the black or brown veining commonly found in turquoise mined in the United States and used in a style of jewelry created by the American Indians.
- The Aztecs mined turquoise in an area now known as New Mexico and a significant amount of turquoise comes from Arizona, California and Nevada in the United States.
- The name turquoise is apparently related to the fact that is was brought to Europe from the Eastern Mediterranean by Levantine traders, more commonly known as Turks. Its been used as a valuable ornament for ages and was used by the Egyptians thousands of years ago. The color is, of course, turquoise, but its range of color varies from green and greenish blue to sky blue shades.
- For centuries, the most valuable turquoise came from Iran (Persia) but today some specimens mined in the southwestern United States compete with it.
Description
Turquoise is just about always cryptocrystalline and massive and assumes no definite external shape. Crystals, even at the microscopic compass, are exceedingly rare. Typically the form is vein or fracture filling, nodular, or botryoidal in usage. Stalactite forms have been reported. Turquoise may also pseudomorphously replace feldspar, apatite, other minerals, or even fossils. Odontolite is relic bone or ivory that has been traditionally thought to have been altered by turquoise or similar phosphate minerals such as the iron phosphate vivianite. Intergrowth with other unoriginal copper minerals such as chrysocolla is also common.
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Price: $180.00
Description
60 million years old honey amber is the fossilized resin from venerable forests. Certified genuine honey amber in a sterling silver setting.
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