Size 13 1/2 on a 10mm Ornamental Band
There are turquoise stones that are simply beautiful and then there are stones that tell a story written before human hands ever touched them. This is the latter. The oval Tyrone cabochon measures 32mm x 21mm, its vivid teal ground laced with a fine, intricate spider web matrix in warm brown and gold that spreads across the surface like something mapped by an ancient and unhurried hand. It is the kind of stone collectors spend years looking for.
Set in oxidized .925 sterling silver with a hand-twisted rope border, delicate leaf accents, and a single ball terminal, the bezel holds the stone with reverence rather than restraint present enough to frame it, wise enough to step back. Below, a triple-stack ornamental shank 10mm of layered sterling silver carries the weight of the piece with the same quiet authority as the stone above it. This ring was built for a large hand that knows what it’s wearing.
Details:
Stone: Tyrone Turquoise · Origin: Southwestern New Mexico · Matrix: Brown, Tan & Gold · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Ring Size: 13 1/3 · Stone Setting: 32mm × 21mm Oval · Band Width: 10mm · One of a Kind
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Woven Sky - Tyrone Turquoise
The Tyrone mine sits in Grant County in the high desert of southwestern New Mexico ancient Mimbres and Apache country, land that has been worked and revered for over a thousand years. One of the largest open-pit copper operations in North America, the mine has yielded turquoise as a byproduct of that excavation for well over a century, producing stones of remarkable color complexity and character.
Spider web matrix turquoise where fine veins of host rock form a delicate, lace-like network across the stone’s surface is among the most prized formations in the collector world. It requires a precise mineral environment to form and cannot be replicated or enhanced. Natural, untreated spider web Tyrone of this quality and scale is genuinely rare. What you are looking at is the real thing sky blue, spider webbed, and pulled from the ancient earth of New Mexico.
