Oxidized Sterling Sleeping Beauty Turquoise with Pyrite Squash Blossom Necklace

Stone:This squash blossom necklace is vintage and not signed. It is all sterling silver with Navajo overlay techniques. It has 29 all natural sleeping beauty turquoise cabochons. Some of them have rare pyrite metal material in them.Sleeping Beauty turquoise comes in a pure sky blue or robin's egg blue color and is relatively stable and suitable for jewelry making. The Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Mine, located in Globe, Arizona, is one of the most famous turquoise mines and produces some of the most desirable turquoise in the world due to the purity of its color. The mine closed for a second time (first time in the early 1960s) in August 2012, which has skyrocketed the price of Sleeping Beauty Turquoise.The mine's name comes from the mountain the mine is located in, which from far away looks like a sleeping woman lying on her back with her arms crossed.Artist:NAMy Philosophy:I choose every piece of jewelry based on the value of the stone. Unlike most of the Turquoise on the market, the st