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Teardrop 4½” x ¾” -
In the high desert, rain is an event. It arrives with ceremony the smell of it before the clouds break, the sound of it on dry earth, the way everything stops and turns toward it. These earrings carry that ceremony in their bones. Two perfectly matched Kingman turquoise teardrops vivid sky blue, clean and saturated, the color of the sky that rain falls from sit above hand-hammered crescents and open half-circles in oxidized .925 sterling silver. And from the base of each piece, sterling silver fringe falls in long, fluid strands that move like rain moves, like something released from a great height and falling with complete intention.
At 4½” total length these earrings are a commitment and a conversation the kind of piece that enters a room before you do and stays in the memory after you leave. The matched stones are identical in color and form, each carrying the clean robin’s egg blue that Mineral Park produces with a consistency no other mine quite matches. The celestial setting teardrop over crescent over circle gives the composition a sacred geometry that the fringe below then sets in motion. Sterling shepherd hooks keep the whole structure light and wearable despite the drama below.
These are not everyday earrings. They are the ones that make the occasion.
Details:
Stone: Kingman Turquoise · Origin: Arizona · Matrix: Turquoise & Tans · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 4½” x ¾” - · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
Some Jewelry is made. Some is found. At Fire & Stone, it's both.
Desert Rain Dancers - Kingman Turquoise Earrings
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.
