Mint Green Turquoise Stone

3mm tibetan turquoise cabochon.

Mint green turquoise stone.

When most people think of turquoise the typical teal color usually comes to mind the name of the color we know today was actually derived from the gemstone turquoise. This means the vein of turquoise was cut as it set in the host rock rather than cut out of the host rock then cut into a solid green turquoise cab. For most of time blue turquoise varieties were considered most desirable while green turquoise was thought to be inferior. This is a piece of lime green turquoise in a ring produced by durango silver company dillon hartman cut this cabochon from a piece of turquoise that came out of the tonapah blue gem mine in the 1950 s.

Tourmalines contain no cleavage and is quite hard 7 to 7 5 mohs making it a durable gemstone. This turquoise is hard and ran in the same host material as other pieces he had cut that ranged from deep blue medium colored green to this color of lime green. Above are two more examples of different looks of natural green turquoise cabochons to the left is a cabochon of rare hachita turquoise from new mexico. Favorite add to.

Aqua teal green blue lilpengeegems. It was believed by the ancients that blue turquoise did not lose color over time and that stones with. Green tourmaline is a very popular gemstone and is found in all shades of green with mint green being the most valuable. 5 out of 5 stars 5 177 5 177 reviews 10 95.

This beautiful green turquoise gemstone was cut in the ribbon or boulder turquoise fashion.