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Turquoise is a semi-transparent to opaque stone that ranges in color from whitish blue to deep dark blue, and from deep dark green to a yellowish green. Traditionally, it was said that the most prized turquoise color was a medium robin’s egg...
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Turquoise forms under ground over thousands of years. Turquoise forms within what we call the hosting rock or mother stone. Not all the material of the host rock changes to turquoise. This leaves fragments of other types of natural material within the...
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Turquoise…it is one semiprecious gemstone that most adults and even children recognize. People around the world have been drawn to this stone for thousands of years. What is it that consistently draws people to turquoise? It could be that in addition to its physical beauty, turquoise is associated with a variety of healing properties. First […]
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Hunting the Silver Lining Silver has played a part in human history since some of our most ancient civilizations. Remnants of the mining of this precious metal, such as washing tables, can be found in places whose habitation stretches back for thousands of years, places such as Asia Minor and the cultivated islands of the […]
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What is Enhanced Turquoise? Enhanced turquoise means that the stones have been treated to become better than the stone’s raw state. Most raw natural turquoise is a fairly brittle and porous material. The stone’s color can fade or change over time, and the stone itself is subject to cracking. High-grade turquoise stones don’t have many of these […]
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