Jewelry

Turquoise Jewelry

Turquoise has been used by southwest American Indian tribes since 20 B.C. The Turquoise stone was used in religion, ceremonies, art, trade, treaty negotiations as well as jewelry.
Turquoise is considered as a stone of life, good fortune and a symbol of wealth by our native American Indians and other culture of the world.
Turquoise gets its color from the metals in the ground where it forms. Blue Turquoise forms where there is copper present. Green turquoise forms where iron is present. Matrix is the host rock, mother. It can be made from several different elements such as pyrite, chert, quartz, cuperite, and manganese oxyde. The sought after spider web turquoise is made up of small nuggets naturally cemented together with rock or matrix. When cut and polished the stone resembles a spider web. Turquoise mines produce varying colors and matrices.

Amber

Amber is fossilized tree resin which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions. Ambre occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams.