Rough Turquoise 2 oz Stabilized Kingman Nuggets.

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These are stabilized Kingman Turquoise nuggets in the rough. This Turquoise has come to us straight from the mine, as good as you can get. This amazing set of loose, stabilized Kingman Turquoise in the rough is available to be purchased in packages of 2 ounces, and is meant to be used for creating cabachons and inlay work. This stabilized Kingman Turquoise is also perfect for making 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.