Earstuds – 6MM Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque blue-green mineral and very rare. It is often times imitated by painting Magnesite or Howlite in a turquoise colour. An expert can often see the difference very quickly. Turquoise got its name from the French word for ‘Turkish’ because the stone first entered Europe through Turkey. The most excellent quality of turquoise is completely sky or cyan blue en has as few veins of the brown matrix as possible, with non being the most favoured, of course. The value is also raised by Moh-scale rating of as close to six as possible, the higher, the better. Lesser quality turquoise is nonetheless still very sought-after.