Turquoise
| ORIGIN: Hubei,China |
HARDNESS: 5.5 |
NATURAL: 100% natural |
Top quality natural turquoise is hard to come by. Some "turquoise" found in cheapie souvenir jewelry contains no real stone at all--it's plastic! Some has what looks like tiny pieces of confetti in it--That's reconstituted turquoise, made from small pieces of stone mixed with blue dye and a plastic binder.
