Highlights include 19th-century silver and turquoise “squash blossom” necklaces, 20th-century nugget-studded bolo ties, and a contemporary cicada-shaped brooch in blue stone by Navajo/Washoe ...

Turquoise blue has even been added to the color wheel ... and is prized by the Navajo for fashioning into jewelry. In California, there is only one major mine in Apache Canyon.

But whatever its hidden meanings, or lack thereof, there is just the undeniable fact that turquoise, with its bright blue hue ... of turquoise and sapphire jewelry (a necklace and earrings ...

Turquoise stones from the blue and green master sets at the Turquoise ... in some way to improve the color or make it more usable in jewelry. The Lowrys said their proposed grading system, at ...

The blue-green mineral widely regarded as ... according to Lowry. Turquoise Museum: A necklace for a horse The process of valuing turquoise can be complex. Colors, color combinations, and matrices ...

In Boghossian’s Palace Voyages high jewellery collection, inspired by the palaces of the Silk Road, are stunning earrings and a necklace of electrifying turquoise Paraiba tourmalines.

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Turquoise - the blue and green gemstone - is often seen ... He’s been mining turquoise near Cripple Creek for decades. He also makes jewelry and inlays tables with the stones.