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Hand Made in Santa Fe, NM since 1987
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Sold outVisit product page →Pendant, Cerrillos Hills Turquoise Square Large in Sterling. Corn Inlay
Pendant only. Â HD Paperclip Chain Sold Separately.
Pendant 1 ½" by 1 ½" Clasp is ¾"
Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.
Note the beautiful colors in this turquoise: Â Blue, Green, Yellow, and Ochre.Â
The Cerrillos Turquoise mine is a turquoise mine located in the Cerrillos Hills, 20 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is one of the oldest and most important turquoise mines in North America.
The Cerrillos Hills have been mined for turquoise since at least the 12th century. The turquoise from Cerrillos was prized by the Ancestral Puebloans, who used it to make jewelry and other objects. The Spanish also mined turquoise in Cerrillos, and the mine was active until the early 20th century.
The Cerrillos Turquoise mine is a open-pit mine. The turquoise is found in veins that run through the sandstone. The turquoise is mined by hand and then sorted by quality. The best turquoise is used to make jewelry, while the lower-quality turquoise is used for other purposes, such as making paint.
The Cerrillos Turquoise mine is a popular tourist destination. Visitors can tour the mine and learn about the history of turquoise mining in Cerrillos. The mine is also a popular spot for rockhounds, who come to search for turquoise.
Notice the Green, Blue, Yellow, Brown, and Cream Colored Cerrillos Turquoise like no other.
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Sold outVisit product page →Pendant, Blue Tyrone Turquoise Round in Sterling
Spectacular Stone!!!
Are You looking for Something Modern and Versatile? The best turquoise we've ever used.
Pendant only. Â Wishbone Chain Sold Separately.
Pedant 1 1/2" in diameter 2 ¼" Long including clasp.
Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.
Blue Tyrone Turquoise
Turquoise mining in the Burro Mountains near Silver City, New Mexico, has been going on since pre-historic times. The Tyrone mine produced great quantities of hard, deep and bright turquoise as well as pale spring green turquoise.  "Turquoise John" or John Coleman, is credited with the modern unearthing of Turquoise in this area. It is said he discovered some of the old mining activities while he was on a hunting trip in 1875. Research resulted in the discovery of the ancient excavations. The mine hasn't produced any turquoise since the 80's. This turquoise is highly collectible.
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Sold outVisit product page →Pendant, Blue Tyrone Turquoise Point in Sterling
Are You looking for Something Modern and Versatile? The best turquoise we've ever used.
Pendant only. Â Wishbone Chain Sold Separately.
Pedant 2 ¼" long including lobster claw, 1" wide.
Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.
Blue Tyrone Turquoise
Turquoise mining in the Burro Mountains near Silver City, New Mexico, has been going on since pre-historic times. The Tyrone mine produced great quantities of hard, deep and bright turquoise as well as pale spring green turquoise.  "Turquoise John" or John Coleman, is credited with the modern unearthing of Turquoise in this area. It is said he discovered some of the old mining activities while he was on a hunting trip in 1875. Research resulted in the discovery of the ancient excavations. The mine hasn't produced any turquoise since the 80's. This turquoise is highly collectible.
Handmade in Santa Fe, NM since 1987.
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Sold outVisit product page →Pendant, Orange Rosarita Spear Shape in Sterling
"If you're not willing to risk the unusual, you'll have to settle for the ordinary"
Price for Pendant only.
3" including  Lobster Claw 1" wide.Â
Shown on Chains from this site.
This is the real thing. Â Orange Rosarita from our personal collection.Â
Rosarita is a very rare material. Â
In the early 1940’s Gold Prices spiked. As a result of the new high prices some Prospectors revisited the old gold mine areas in places such as Colorado, California, Alaska, etc.Â
These crusty codgers would build brick kilns over open pits and super-heat that gold-bearing ore that still litters the sites. The return was small and the practice only lasted about 5 years. The gold would sink to the bottom and the beautiful red gold slag would run off down the mountains, and solidify into boulders of Brilliant Red and Orange, much like Obsidian is formed in a volcanic reaction.
It is very rare, but we are lucky enough to have a nice collection. The material is durable and readily polishes to a beautiful shine. So far we have found no other information on it. We feel very blessed to have such a lovely earth element to work with. Rosarita is the only material available in such a true red color. Some pieces have swirls of orange and these are even more rare.Â
Rosarita was named after a beach in Mexico because of the brilliant color. Â
Pendant Charms - Collect them all - Rainbows of color and fun!
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Visit product page →Quartz Crystal Point in Sterling
Are You looking for Something Modern and Versatile?
Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.
Quartz crystal was once believed to be an eternal ice sent by the heavenly gods. Until the late 1500s, many scholars thought this stone was fossilized ice. Quartz crystal is actually a mineral, one of the most abundant minerals in the Earth's continental crust, composed of silicon and oxygen.
Quartz can be icy clear or have inclusions, veils, bubbles and various colors. It is also known as rock crystal, crystal quartz, universal crystal or clear quartz.
People in the earliest recorded times believed in the magical powers of quartz. Ancient Roman, Egyptian and Greek civilizations used quartz crystals as potent talismans. The word crystal comes from the Greek word "krystallos," which means ice.
Shown here on Wish Bone Hand Made Chain Sold Separately.
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Sold outVisit product page →Rutilated Quartz Point in Sterling
Are You looking for Something Modern and Versatile?
A crystal within a Crystal!
Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.
Like a diamond in the rough, Rutilated quartz was long disregarded by miners and mineral sorters as worthless. Only pure quartz was viewed as valuable and so this variety was seen as tainted.
Around the middle of the 20th century, however, this began to change. Fashion designers and collectors began to appreciate the ethereal beauty of rutilated quartz, sometimes likening its shimmering rutile threads to angel’s hair.
While the quartz in rutilated quartz can be either smoky or clear and sometimes even black, the color of the rutile inclusions will depend on their iron oxide content. When the iron oxide in rutile quartz is high, the inclusions take on redder and often golden tones. Such inclusions can look like hay or strands of golden hair. This is why golden rutilated quartz is often referred to as angel’s hair quartz
Shown here on Wish Bone Hand Made Chain Sold Separately.
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Visit product page →Pendant, Opal Small Pillow Shape in Sterling
Pendant sold separately from chain.
AURORA OPALÂ
Cultured Opals are a lab created stone. It was a project started some 20 years ago by a turquoise fanatic and chemist. Lab created opal is pretty but gets dull, and it just doesn’t really capture the light dispersement that real opals do. This was because no one was really getting those silica dioxide particulars small enough to mimic Mother Nature. The nano particles of silica dioxide are just the same as natural opal. They are almost as small as an atom. The matrix is a nod to turquoise and the two together are magic. It takes about a year to grow. It is more durable than natural opal and this makes this material ideal for rings and bracelets as detergents won’t hurt it. It has a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs scale.
1 ¼"  including Lobster Claw
Great to collect for a charm bracelet or to wear as a necklace.
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Sold outVisit product page →Pendant, Small Heart in Kingman Turquoise.
Lobster claw clasp.Â
 Beautifully whimsical!
The Kingman turquoise mine, in Arizona, is the last remaining commercially producing mine in the United States. Evidence suggests turquoise was mined in the surrounding areas dating as far back as 600 AD.
The mine where a piece of Turquoise was found—not its color, nor its matrix, which refers to the veins and patterns of the stone—is the primary factor in determining its value. Historically speaking, the finest turquoise came from the mountains of Asia. In the 20th century, however, the copper-rich American Southwest supplanted them as the primary source of rare, and valuable, specimens, including collector favorites such as Bisbee, Lander Blue, and Number 8 (Black Web). Tibetan Turquoise is highly prized. Hubei also has some of the most beautiful natural Turquoise.
HandMade in Santa Fe, NM Since 1987
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Spirit Bead Bracelets in Gemstones and Sterling. Elevate your gemstone beaded Bracelets! Our Bracelets are strung on double 49 strand stainless wires. Don’t accept elastic versions unless you want to lose your bracelet. They always end up breaking.
Cerrillos Hills Turquoise Corn Inlay Pendant
Pendant Cerrillos Hills Corn Inlay on HD Sterling Paperclip Chain.