Wholesale Lot 1 lb. of Genuine Turquoise Chips Cripple Creek 1/8"-1/4". Quality Genuine Turquoise!

This Wholesale Lot features 1 pound of genuine Turquoise nuggets. This mix of quality Turquoise looks to be from the Cripple Creek mine and features a gorgeous range of sky blue hues. These brilliant Turquoise chips are great for creating hand made Turquoise jewelry. It's a Turquoise lover's dream. These smaller sized turquoise nuggets make great material for inlay, fetish pottery and turquoise mosaics. The possibilities are endless, let your imagination run wild! On average the pieces are 1/8" to 1/4" long in one direction, and can be as large as a 1/2" with varying thicknesses and profiles. Some smaller pieces and chips that broke off from larger pieces may be smaller than 1/8". You will be getting 1 pound from the quality material pictured below.

Turquoise is a highly sought-after mineral and is possibly the most valuable, non-transparent mineral in the jewelry trade. It has been mined for eons since at least 6000 BC by early Egyptians. Today, it is more popular than ever and its use around the world is prolific. The finest turquoise comes from Iran but is challenged by stone found in the southwestern United States. The name comes from a French word, which means stone of Turkey, from where Persian material passed on its way to Europe. Certain Native Americans called turquoise "Chal-cui-hui-tal", meaning "the highest and most valued thing in the world". The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. The Zuni, along with many other Native American groups, believed the stone could help protect them from demons or help a person feel intuitively the difference between good and evil as well as protect against accidents and various dangers. To actually see a bright blue nugget of Turquoise on the otherwise gray and dusty desert floor is to know the incredible nature of this stone and will lead anyone to realize what the American Indians have known to be true for millennia - that Turquoise is special, sacred, and has power.