Story About Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Gemstone Beads Strands
Natural Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Cabochon: A Timeless Gemstone at Wholesale Price
Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Cabochon is a highly recognizable gemstone, renowned for its rich sky-blue color and lack of heavy matrix. It has become synonymous with the word “turquoise” and is famous worldwide, rivaling even the robin’s egg clear Blue Persian Turquoise coveted by collectors. The gemstone forms in nuggets with a soft white matrix, occasionally with small amounts of quartz or pyrite. However, as buyers started to prefer stones with matrix, the matrix was often artificially darkened with shoe polish or other methods to give it higher contrast.
Sleeping Beauty Turquoise originates from Arizona and has a humble beginning. It was first discovered by Native Americans during the Anasazi times, where it was mined with hand tools, and little bits were collected at a time. The gemstone also made its way to Pueblo Bonito during the Anasazi times, serving as a trade center for Anasazi Turquoise for North American Tribes, Central American Tribes, and South American tribes. Since then, the Sleeping Beauty Mine was developed by Anglo peoples in search of copper and other metal ore. The turquoise was under contract by Monty Nichols, who is said to have “torn down a mountain” to find the famous Sleeping Beauty Turquoise, which is a figure of speech, not an actuality, to show how much work the miner has done to get the stone that has become an icon in the gem industry.
Today, Natural Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Smooth Cabochon is available at a wholesale price, making it accessible to jewelry designers and collectors worldwide. Its timeless beauty and unique story make it a highly valued gemstone, perfect for adding a touch of elegance and sophistication to any piece of jewelry.
