Turquoise Heart Earrings
Silver Sun

Native American made by artisans for Silver Sun. Each Enhanced Sleeping Beauty Turquoise heart is approximately one third of an inch in length set in silver, suspended on fish hook wires with single silver bead. Wear with partner Open Heart Necklace Style #3260.

A Note on Enhanced Sleeping Beauty Turquoise:
The Sleeping Beauty Turquoise mine is seven miles outside of Globe, Arizona. Its turquoise is noted for its solid, light blue color that lacks matrix. The host rock is usually granite. The owner and miner of the Sleeping Beauty mine, says that the mine produced about 1600 pounds of turquoise every month. Of that amount, only 4% was hard enough to remain  unaltered. Another 80-90% of that amount is altered in some way, mostly enhanced. The enhancement process is more expensive than stabilization. Enhanced Sleeping Beauty is often sold to large distributors in the United States and Europe. Today very little is coming out of the mine. In the past year the production of the mine has slowed down, only small pieces have been coming out of the mine.

Shipping, approx. 3 oz. Inset photo is same earrings against leather backdrop with flash photography. Stones are blue.