WOW FACTOR Dry Creek TURQUOISE Navajo pendant, 20\" sterling & Turq Navajo pearls
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WOW FACTOR Dry Creek TURQUOISE Navajo pendant, 20\" sterling & Turq Navajo pearls:
$239.99
Really exceptional statement combo: Dry Creek spiderweb turquoise domed gemstone set in Navajo Revival style in Sterling silver by master Navajo silversmith Randy Boyd. Nearly white Dry Creek turquoise like this is also called Rare Sacred Buffalo turquoise. It comes from a vein discovered in the Dry Creek Mine in 1993, but given little attention until mineralogical tests proved it to be genuine turquoise.
The hauntingly pale gem-quality oval turquoise stone in the pendant is one inch tall, 5/8 inches wide, domed, and very hard. (Randy framed the Sacred Buffalo stone with handcrafted Revival style fans, button stars, and five silver balls that perfectly echo the handmade beads of the Navajo pearls. The pendant is one inch wide and an impressive 1.75 inches tall including the satin-finished sterling bale.
The big plus is the pendants hangs on a hard to-find 20-inch long strand of Navajo pearls made by well-known Navajo artist Marilyn strung with high quality natural nuggets of Dry Creek turquoise, (not stabilized) and like most Dry Creek Mine output, these nugget beads are very hard. The nuggets have a very pale blue cast (slightly bluer than the pendant\'s gemstone). Both beads and pendant show the light chocolate toned spiderweb characteristic of Dry Creek turquoise. You rarely see this fine a combination of high-quality spiderweb Dry Creek pendant offered with a substantial strand of sterling Navajo pearls accented by real matching turquoise beads. We encourage you to look at what comparable items are selling for in online native American jewelry galleries and on . This combo will be notices in the board room or out doing the cowboy two-step. This in an heirloom quality piece, with heavy silver in the pendant and well strung Navajo pearls (which may also be worn without the pendant.)
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The intriguing Story of \"Sacred Buffalo\" -- THE SOURCE OF THIS U.S.-turquoise from the relatively new Dry Creek Mine is rare -- it all comes from a single vein found at the mine located near Austin, Nevada, in Lander County. When Shoshone tribe members first uncovered and claimed the Dry Creek turquoise deposit in 1990, all of the rare turquoise was the pale, creamy blue, mostly with light cocoa-colored spiderweb. Neither Navajo silversmiths
nor trading posts quite knew what to think of it. After the whiter Dry Creek vein was found in 1993, Mineralogical tests proved both the pale blue and the almost white rock mined at Dry Creek is genuine turquoise, simply lacking the concentration of heavy metals that produce intense colors in most natural turquoise. (The presence of more copper than aluminum in a deposit makes turquoise blue, as found in most Arizona mines. Green or green-blue turquoise is produced when there is more more iron than aluminum in the stone, more common in Nevada mines.)
High quality Dry Creek Turquoise, from pale blue to almost white, is also harder than much natural turquoise, the best Dry Creek tests 6-7 on the Mohs hardness scale -- average turquoise is 4-5 on the Mohs scale.
THE NAME GAME if you care about more than beauty: Please note that \"Sacred White Buffalo\" turquoise from the Dry Creek Mine has a faint blue cast (and some people call even the palest stones from the white vein only \"Dry Creek\"); it often has some light brown spiderweb. Whitish Dry Creek turquoise is very different from the \"White Buffalo Turquoise\" from the White Buffalo Mine near Tonopah, NV, being mined by the Otteson family, near their famous Apache Blue Mine. White buffalo is a form of opalized calcite, very attractive and popular, and characterized by black matrix that can show up as spots, webbing or large swaths of black in the opalized calcite. As the Ottesons warn on their Silver State Turquoise website, the is a lot of fake white turquoise being marketed: \"Many imitation stones have popped up trying to copy the look: howlite, magnesite, chinese imitation plastic,...etc.\" There is also a lot of fake \"Sacred Buffalo\" Dry Creek turquoise being sold and fake White Buffalo Mine turquoise. Howlite and other fake white turquoise is soft and has been treated w plastic or resin fillers. We suggest you make sure you are buying either of the beautiful white turquoise stones from legitimate native American artists or reliable trading posts or galleries who can tell you their sources from these two genuine turquoise mines. Our came directly from well-known Native American artists.
A sterling Navajo-made pendant with Sacred Buffalo stone hung on a quality strand of real Navajo pearls with genuine Dry Creek nuggets can last for generations and pieces like this often sell for more than $600. Chalky howlite, treated with dyes or even plastic, is a lot cheaper, but will not endure and certainly is not a wearable investment like this piece.
WOW FACTOR Dry Creek TURQUOISE Navajo pendant, 20\" sterling & Turq Navajo pearls:
$239.99