Sleeping Beauty Turquoise 3mm Chip 18 Inch - Limited EditionsDakota Stones Sleeping Beauty Turquoise is from the Sleeping Beauty mine in Globe, Arizona famous for the outstanding robins egg blue color and quality of their rough. The Sleeping Beauty mine ceased producing Turquoise in 2012, so only a finite amount of rough material remains. With only limited amounts of this highly sought after material remaining, natural Sleeping Beauty Turquoise continues to rise in value. Turquoise is one of the oldest known

Occurring in sizes ranging from a grain of sand to the size of an apple

It takes its name from Mooka Creek

Orange or Hessonite Garnet is sometimes called “Cinnamon Stone” for its orange to orange to brown color as well as for its origin in the land of spices

An aluminum silicate mineral

Usually occurring in a deep red color

this stone

It can even exhibit various colors within the same specimen

Agate was used for medicinal purposes in ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations

and most commonly found with black inclusions

earrings or in smaller groups within a design

and translucent black (Apache Tears)

The contrasts in this stone really make it a striking addition to any design -- creamy white quartz permeated by black tendrils of manganese branching through the stone