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There is a green in the natural world that stops you the green of new growth after rain, of shallow water over pale stone, of light through leaves at exactly the right moment. This stone holds that green. The round Kingman turquoise cabochon measures ¾” across vivid apple and sage, luminous and alive, shifting from lime to teal as the light moves across it in a way that makes it impossible to look at only once.
The setting answers the stone with quiet elegance. A clean round .925 sterling silver bezel holds the cabochon with precision, while three hand-applied granulation balls cluster in a small triangle at the base a detail so considered it reads as a signature, the mark of hands that understood exactly what they were working with.
Green Kingman is rare. Most of what comes out of Mineral Park is blue and the blues are magnificent but the green material is something else entirely, sought by collectors who know the deposit and silversmiths who understand what it means when the earth offers something unexpected. This is one of those stones. It arrived in Taos and it will not come through again.
Details:
Stone: Kingman Turquoise · Origin: Arizona · Matrix: Turquoise & Tans · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: ¾” round · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
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Kingman Turquoise Pendant
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.
