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OVAL 1¼” x 1⅜”
This is the green side of Tyrone the color that surprises people who expect sky blue and find themselves stopped by something deeper and more complex. The oval Tyrone turquoise cabochon measures 1¼” x 1⅜” rich, saturated teal-green across its entire surface, threaded with bold rivers of warm amber and gold matrix that move through the stone in broad, painterly sweeps. The surface reads almost topographic like aerial terrain, like a river valley seen from altitude, like the land itself pressed into a single oval of color and mineral.
Set in oxidized .925 sterling silver with a full hand-twisted rope border, the bezel holds the stone’s complex composition with quiet confidence. This pendant is sold without a cord or chain wear it on your own chain, on leather, on silk it will be at home on all of them.
Details:
Stone: Tyrone Turquoise · Origin: New Mexico · Matrix: Turquoise & Tans · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 1¼” x 1⅜” Oval · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
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Tyrone Turquoise Pendant
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.
What makes Tyrone turquoise exceptional and increasingly rare is its color diversity. Where many turquoise mines produce stones of relatively uniform hue, Tyrone yields a wide spectrum: sky blue, teal, green-blue, and rich matrix patterns in brown, tan, and gold that reflect the iron and copper-rich host rock of the region. Spider web matrix Tyrone 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, requiring a precise mineral environment to form and impossible to replicate or enhance.
Natural, untreated Tyrone turquoise is increasingly difficult to source. The open-pit copper operation that produces it prioritizes copper extraction turquoise is recovered incidentally, in limited and unpredictable quantities. What reaches the hands of silversmiths is a small fraction of what the earth produces. This stone comes from New Mexico ground, worked by New Mexico hands, and set in silver in Taos as close to its origin as a stone can get without still being in the earth.
