Rough Turquoise 2 oz Natural Cripple Creek Nuggets.

The possibilities are limitless!!!

These are Natural Cripple Creek Turquoise nuggets in the rough. This Turquoise has come to us straight from the mine in Cripple Creek, as natural as you can get. These Cripple Creek Turquoise nuggets are available to be purchased in packages of 2 ounces, and are meant to be used for making cabachons and for inlay work. This Natural Cripple Creek loose Turquoise in the rough is also perfect for being made into the main gemstones for virtually any kind of lapidary work and for making beads.

There are many legends about Turquoise; The Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and that it helped overcome illness. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. Pueblo Indians thought that its color was stolen from the sky. In Hopi legend the lizard who travels between the above and the below, excretes turquoise and that the stone can hold back floods. The Apache felt that turquoise on a gun or bow made it shoot straight. The Navajo consider it as good fortune to wear and believe it could appease the Wind Spirit.