Wholesale Lot 1 lb. of Genuine Turquoise Rough Nuggets Cripple Creek 1/4" 5746-TC
Turquoise is being sold for $450/pound and we just received a 2 lb. sample from Nevada mines offering to sell for $550/pound! That stone doesn't look any different from the quality Turquoise we are selling here. In fact most of the $550/lb stuff was pale and it had few quality nuggets. The only difference is we aren't looking to inflate the price of Turquoise, not to mention were selling older Turquoise from our 30 year old collection that comes from a time when higher quality stuff was still coming out of the mines in quantity.
This Wholesale Lot features 1 pound of genuine Turquoise nuggets. This mix of stabilized Turquoise looks to be from the Cripple Creek mine and features consistent sky blues, aqua blues, and earth tone hues. These brilliant Turquoise stones are great for cutting into small cabochons for jewelry or could be drilled for stringing chokers and necklaces. It's a jewelry maker's dream. The smaller sized turquoise nuggets would also make great material for inlay, fetish pottery and turquoise mosaics. The possibilities are endless, let your imagination run wild! You will be getting 1 pound of the Turquoise nuggets pictured below. On average the pieces are 1/4 of an inch long in one direction, and can be as large as a 1/2" or as small as 1/8 of an inch with varying thicknesses and profiles. Some smaller pieces and chips that broke off from larger pieces may be smaller than 1/8". What you see pictured below is what you'll get.
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.
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