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Not every Kingman comes out blue. Occasionally rarely the mineral chemistry shifts deep in the Mineral Park deposit and the earth produces something green instead. This is one of those stones. The round cabochon measures ¾” across a clean, continuous teal-green of exceptional saturation, smooth and silky across its entire surface, the color moving between sage and aqua depending on the light and the angle and the hour of the day. It is a stone that changes without changing. It rewards patience and the second look.
The silverwork is precise and personal. A round .925 sterling silver bezel cradles the stone, and at the base three granulation balls cluster in a tight triangle small, hand-applied, entirely deliberate. It is the kind of detail that separates made from manufactured, the kind that a maker puts on a piece not because it is required but because it is right. Sold without cord or chain wear it on silk, on silver, on whatever sits closest to your skin. It will not compete. It will simply be there, green and certain, doing what only the rare things do.
Details:
Stone: Kingman Turquoise · Origin: Arizona · Matrix: Turquoise & Tans · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 3/4" round · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
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Kingman Turquoise
The Kingman mine sits in Mineral Park, Mohave County in northwestern Arizona one of the oldest and most storied turquoise operations in North America. Archaeological evidence places turquoise mining at Kingman as far back as 1000 AD, when Ancestral Puebloan and Mojave peoples worked the deposit long before European contact. The mine has been in continuous or near-continuous production ever since, making it one of the longest-running turquoise sources on the continent.
What distinguishes Kingman turquoise is the exceptional range and consistency of its color a vivid, saturated blue that collectors and silversmiths have prized for generations. Kingman produces some of the bluest turquoise in the world, ranging from bright robin’s egg and sky blue to deeper Persian blue, often with a distinctive black, brown, or silver matrix that provides striking contrast against the stone’s saturated ground. The water web Kingman where fine silver and black matrix forms a delicate web across the surface of the stone is among the most coveted turquoise formations anywhere, sought by serious collectors and commanding significant premiums over unmarked material.
Kingman turquoise is natural and genuine the mine produces both stabilized material for the commercial market and high grade natural stones for collectors and artisan jewelers who insist on untreated material. The distinction matters. Natural Kingman holds its color without treatment, a testament to the mineral stability of the deposit and the quality of the stone coming out of the ground.
The Mineral Park mine has passed through several ownership periods over the decades and production has been inconsistent periods of active mining followed by closure, each reopening producing new material of sometimes dramatically different character. What comes out of Kingman today is not guaranteed to look like what came out twenty years ago. Each period of production has its own signature. This stone carries the Kingman name because it earned it in the ground, in the color, and in the hands of a Taoseña who knows the difference.
