Sleeping Beauty Turquoise

The Sleeping Beauty mine, located seven miles from Globe, Arizona, is renowned for its solid, sky-blue turquoise with no matrix. Since the mine's closure in 2012, this pure and naturally strong turquoise has become highly valued, comparable to top-grade Nevada turquoise. Prized by jewelers and artists worldwide, Sleeping Beauty Turquoise often requires no treatment and is named for the mountain’s resemblance to a sleeping woman with her arms crossed.

The baby blue or "Robin's Egg" blue Turquoise was mainly used as beads and on shells that the Native American tribes of the Southwest had traded for with the Native American tribes of central and south America. - See more at: http://www.durangosilver.com/sleeping-beauty-turquoise.html#sthash.EfUrIk3e.dpuf
The baby blue or "Robin's Egg" blue Turquoise was mainly used as beads and on shells that the Native American tribes of the Southwest had traded for with the Native American tribes of central and south America. - See more at: http://www.durangosilver.com/sleeping-beauty-turquoise.html#sthash.EfUrIk3e.dpuf
The gemstone got its name from the mountain where it is mined, which resembles a sleeping woman laying on her back with arms crossed. - See more at: http://www.durangosilver.com/sleeping-beauty-turquoise.html#sthash.EfUrIk3e.dpuf
The gemstone got its name from the mountain where it is mined, which resembles a sleeping woman laying on her back with arms crossed. - See more at: http://www.durangosilver.com/sleeping-beauty-turquoise.html#sthash.EfUrIk3e.dpuf
The gemstone got its name from the mountain where it is mined, which resembles a sleeping woman laying on her back with arms crossed. - See more at: http://www.durangosilver.com/sleeping-beauty-turquoise.html#sthash.EfUrIk3e.dpuf
The gemstone got its name from the mountain where it is mined, which resembles a sleeping woman laying on her back with arms crossed. - See more at: http://www.durangosilver.com/sleeping-beauty-turquoise.html#sthash.EfUrIk3e.dpuf
The gemstone got its name from the mountain where it is mined, which resembles a sleeping woman laying on her back with arms crossed. - See more at: http://www.durangosilver.com/sleeping-beauty-turquoise.html#sthash.EfUrIk3e.dpuf
Sleeping Beauty Turquoise