Tyrone Turquoise Bar Pendant Sterling Silver Necklace

Stunning natural stone of Tyrone Turquoise set in a sterling silver castellated bezel with two flower topped prongs. The bezel is accented by a sterling silver twisted wire on the lower half of the bezel.  The stone sits fixed on two ends by a sterling silver paperclip chain that measures 22".  The turquoise has a stunning color range of vibrant green and rich brown matrix.  This will definitely be a piece everyone stops you to admire and talk about.  Lobster claw closure.

The piece measure 2  inches long and 3/4 inches tall.

Tyrone turquoise is mined outside of Silver City in the southwest area of New Mexico. As with many turquoise mines, its original purpose was for copper mining. Turquoise is considered a secondary mineral of a copper mine. Because the money and scale of operation is for the copper, these companies see turquoise as a waste product and it ends up in the tailings. Rarely, some copper companies will allow people to pick turquoise out of these rock “refuse” piles. In the early 1980s, when the Tyrone mine owner, employed a new extraction method of crushing and acid wash, this process destroyed any turquoise within the copper ore. Because of this, Tyrone turquoise has not been mined since then.