A quick introduction: According to Durango Silver Company, "Chinese turquoise accounts for over 60% of the stones sold in the United States, due to the scarcity of American turquoise. Chinese turquoise can be just as beautiful as American turquoise, “In fact, China seemed to produce the highest amount of spiderweb turquoise thus far.
Turquoise and variscite are closely related but chemically different. Variscite, does not contain copper which gives turquoise its characteristic blue green color.
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I agree with @StevesTrail, most likely Kingman, although it does remind me of some Nevada stones that I’ve seen like Blue Diamond. But being that Kingman is the most prolific American (although it’s possible that these are even Chinese turquoise) mine out there I would probably go with that. The one thing I will say is that it is NOT Lander Blue. Lander Blue to me has a very distinctly ...
I’m looking for information about the Blue Bird Turquoise mine in Nevada. In particular I’d love to see any examples you might have but any info at all would be greatly appreciated !
I have noticed a ton of listings on eBay, Etsy etc.for “genuine” Navajo pieces with the hallmark QT 925 - mostly offered for way less than “real” identifiable pieces. eg. “Beautiful QT Sterling QUAC (New Mexico)” “coral, turquoise, onyx inlay” etc. Many listings say the pieces are from Quoc Turquoise Inc. - but I can’t find anything to say whether these pieces were made by ...
Aside from the turquoise, the silverwork is very unusual, to the extent that I’m puzzled about the origins of the urn-like (headdress?) appliques and the floaty leaves on the naja, not fixed in place as you’d expect. It almost looks like it was gussied up (added onto) from a more typical necklace, versus being made originally as it appears now.