Rare Turquoise Vintage Navajo Blue Gem Sterling Silver Inlay Bracelet

RARE TURQUOISE VINTAGE NAVAJO BLUE GEM STERLING SILVER INLAY BRACELET. This is a fabulous vintage Navajo blue gem nevada turquoise inlaid silver cuff bracelet.

This incredible bracelet contains remarkable protruding inlaid turquoise stones that graduate in size towards the center. I love how the stones are inlaid into channel patterns.

Featuring exquisite hand stamped design The bracelet is sturdy and absolutely amazing. The width of the bracelet measures around 10mm. The inside end to end measures around 5.7 with an additional 1½ gap. Sturdy 30.4 grams great addition to your collection?? The Blue Gem mine, which is no longer active, produced almost every shade of green and blue turquoise imaginable.

The Blue Gem mine site is located near Battle Mountain. It produced a great variety of turquoise, from intense blue to deep green combinations with a hard, irregularly distributed matrix. The Battle Mountain or Blue Gem mine, which began production in 1934 yielded the most valuable Blue Gem turquoise because of its rich color and hardness. Of the several Nevada mines that are named Blue Gem, this is the largest and most famous.

Blue Gem turquoise tends to form in very thin slab forms rather than nugget, although the largest nugget ever found weighed 178 pounds. This mine was one of the deepest with lots of underground tunnels. Blue Gem closed in the 70's and there does not seem to be much available today.

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