Is purple Mojave turquoise real?

Yes, you heard us right, it is a purple stone! Purple Mohave Turquoise is only available in the Kingman Mine in Arizona. This unique stone showcases bright crimsons, blues, pinks, purples, and violets with striking metallic matrices. Unfortunately, it is not naturally purple.

How is Mohave purple turquoise made?

GEMSTONE HEALING: Mohave Turquoise is made from genuine Arizona Kingman turquoise that have been heated with brass, iron and/or copper, dyed, compressed and stabilized. The result is a brilliant coloring with intricate golden/copper webbing throughout.

Is there such thing as purple turquoise?

Often called "The Purple Turquoise" sugilite is actually not a turquoise at all. It was first discovered in Japan in 1944 and was named after the man that discovered it; Ken-ichi Sigi.

What color is Mojave turquoise?

Mojave Turquoise Features

A rich and vibrant turquoise, it is available in the shades of green, purple, blue and orange with copper coloured veining. Birthstone of June, July & December.

What is purple composite turquoise?

Purple-pink, yellow-green, and blue composite turquoise has been marketed since late 2008. • The pieces of turquoise are bonded together using a polymer (colored to produce the purple- pink and yellow-green varieties).

Turquoise: Real or Fake?

What's purple turquoise called?

Lavender Turquoise, also known as Golden Hills or Kazakhstan Turquoise, is special for many reasons. Discovered in 2013, Golden Hills Turquoise comes from a deposit in the Golden Hills mine in Kazakhstan.

Why is some turquoise purple?

Often, stones are mixed with red-dyed resin to reinforce them and enhance purple. Some purple turquoise may not be turquoise at all but rather plastic or a different mineral, sugilite. Sugilite is a rare opaque mineral of medium hardness. It has properties similar to turquoise but a different hue and matrix.

Where does purple turquoise come from?

There is only one source for Purple Mojave Turquoise; the Kingman Turquoise mine in Arizona. This type of turquoise starts out as Blue Kingman Turquoise, it is dyed purple and then goes through a bronze fusion process that creates a bronze color to the matrix.

What is the rarest color of turquoise?

Blue Turquoise

The most-prized turquoise color is an even, intense, medium blue, sometimes referred to as robin's egg blue or sky blue in the trade. The traditional source for this color is the Nishapur district of Iran, so you'll also hear it described as “Persian blue,” whether or not it was actually mined in Iran.

What are the properties of Mojave purple turquoise?

Turquoise Crystal Healing Properties

Mojave Turquoise holds the same properties as classic Turquoise. It is believed to be a stone for finding wholeness and truth. Also, it is thought to aid in the communication and manifestation of those qualities. It represents the wisdom that comes from all of life's experiences.

What natural stone is purple?

The most popular purple gemstones are Amethyst, Purple Sapphire, and Khooni Neelam. Amethyst, also known as Jamunia, is one of the most well-known substitutes for Blue Sapphire.

Is sugilite the same as purple turquoise?

Sugilite is also known as wesselite, after the purple color material was discovered in the Wessels Manganese Mine in South Africa. Sugilite is known by other names including purple turquoise, cybelene, lavulite, luvulite, royal azel, royal lavulite and royal lazelle. Sugilite is not a well-known gemstone.

What is a rare purple stone?

Sugilite, one of the rarest gemstones, is relatively unknown to people outside Asia. The Japanese geologist Ken-ichi Sugi discovered it in 1944. It has a distinctive purple coloration and is either translucent or opaque. However, there are variations with a light pink-purple hue.

Is Mohave Turquoise rare?

Once the Turquoise is assembled, it is then stabilized to harden the gem. While Mohave Turquoise is an assembled gemstone, the complexity and uniqueness of its crafting process, combined with the sole source, makes it extremely rare, especially in calibrated sizes for jewelry collections.

How can you tell real turquoise from fake?

Simply scratch the questionable turquoise with your fingernail. If your fingernail becomes caught in the webbing matrix, there's a good chance it's a genuine turquoise stone. This is because natural turquoise usually has a webbing-like matrix. Fake stones, on the other hand, often don't show this type of patterning.

Is Mojave green turquoise dyed?

Turquoise is a phosphate of aluminum with copper and traces of iron. Depending on its origin, the stone can be sky blue to green depending on the amount of copper (which makes it blue) and iron (which makes it green). Our Mojave green turquoise is made from genuine turquoise stones that have been dyed and stabilized.

What type of turquoise is most expensive?

For example, Persian grade turquoise is the most valuable, the classic “robin's egg blue” color, because it has trace vanadium and no iron. In the United States, the closest to Persian grade available was found in Arizona's Sleeping Beauty Mine.

What is high grade turquoise?

Highgrade Natural Turquoise is rated by AA, AAA and AAAA (which is nearly unobtainable and is less then 1% of the Turquoise on the market and in mines). These top three Turquoise Grades are usually in the 5-7 range on the Moh's Scale of gemstone hardness.

How can you tell Kingman turquoise?

The quality natural Kingman turquoise produced at this mine is generally medium blue with a "water web" matrix that easily distinguishes it from other turquoise. The best turquoise is a lovely blue with a black web matrix.

Is there turquoise in the Mojave Desert?

In 1905, G. F. Kunz described the discovery of turquoise in the Halloran Spring area: "Mr. T. C. Bassett had observed in this neighborhood a small hillock where the float rock was seamed and stained with blue.

What is pink mojave?

Portulaca umbraticola Mojave® Pink is a succulent-like annual that features large, vibrant pink flowers all summer long. Very heat, humidity and drought tolerant. The flowers of Portulaca will close at night and reopen the next day.

Where is lavender turquoise mined?

Lavender Turquoise is also known as Golden Hills Turquoise and is only found at the Altyn Tyube mine in Kazakhstan. Altyn Tyube translates to Golden Hills.

What is a purplish blue stone?

Tanzanite, in its finest form, has an intense blue/purple color that cannot be mimicked by any other gemstone, which is why it has become so popular as a jewelry stone since its discovery in the late 1960s.

What does a purple blue stone mean?

Sapphire meaning & properties

Purple sapphire is known as the “stone of awakening”, said to increase spiritual power and consciousness. The purple gemstone symbolises wisdom and astuteness, bringing its wearer good fortune and spiritual insight.

How is purple copper turquoise made?

More than likely, what you have is actually a form of reconstituted turquoise, where the dehydrated rock was ground up and mixed with a red dyed resin, forming the purple color in a plastic reinforced product.