Category Archives: Turquoise Facts & History

Natural, Stabilized, Treated, Fake, and Synthetic Turquoise

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An article by Lee Anderson This article discusses various types of turquoise as they relate to the jewelry industry. Natural This turquoise comes directly from the mine. It is cut, shaped, polished, and set into jewelry. Perhaps it had only been drilled, polished, and suspended on a necklace. In any event, the stone has had […]

Turquoise Quality

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An article by Lee Anderson We could write pages on this and still not cover the subject. In the earliest of times — up to the late 1800s — certainly, the pure blue without matrix was considered the best. It was time-tested; if the color did not change it was “old rock”…in other words, a […]