Comments on: Can You Identify the Stones in This Vintage Navajo Ring? https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/ free jewelry tutorials, plus a friendly community sharing creative ideas for making and selling jewelry. Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.15 By: Rosa https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-610920 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:18:29 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-610920 What a gorgeous design! I don’t think it is turquoise. The “cracks” are really strange. The closest I could find is coloured Dragon Veins Agate, but the veins are more smooth. Some ancient tribes putt gemstones through a mill to reshape it into jewelry. Could this be it?

]]> By: Kathryn Uster https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-610021 Sun, 10 Feb 2019 04:35:29 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-610021 It could be agate. Many Southwest and Mexican artist use it.

]]> By: Carol https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609969 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 02:41:21 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609969 Thanks, Catherine! I was pretty certain that it was Turquoise but I had forgotten the name of the mine! Gorgeous stuff but impossible to find! Good eye!
What a stunning piece! Rarely see this quality Turquoise! What a find!

]]> By: Catherine https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609966 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:48:09 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609966 In reply to Richard Klimesh.

Glad to be of help and glad the turquoise has been identified. The ring is an exquisite piece!

]]> By: Chris H https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609962 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:19:40 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609962 Aged gaspeite (sp)?

]]> By: Richard Klimesh https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609954 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:35:04 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609954 In reply to Catherine.

Thanks, Catherine. A friend who has been making turquoise jewelry for decades concurs that it is indeed Damele turquoise.

]]> By: Nora https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609953 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:59:48 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609953 I am not an expert but It could be serpentine.

]]> By: Jody https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609952 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:50:43 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609952 I did a little research it looks like possibly laguna lace agate

]]> By: claudia https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609950 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:01:48 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609950 I have seen Jasper that has similar characteristics. But I can’t say for sure.

]]> By: Phyllis https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609947 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:46:30 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609947 If it isn’t turquoise it might be variscite – maybe.

]]> By: Catherine https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609941 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:53:45 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609941 Am pretty sure it’s turquoise from a Nevada mine. Have seen gemstones similar to that in Native American jewelry in Santa Fe and elsewhere identified as turquoise. The Damele mine produces turquoise with a wide range of colors, some of which is a pale olive green with matrix.

]]> By: Beccye https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609938 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:21:45 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609938 I think it is turquoise

]]> By: D R https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609920 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:43:16 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609920 Looks like picture jasper

]]> By: Andrea Blinn https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/can-you-identify-the-stones-in-this-vintage-navajo-ring/#comment-609912 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:20:07 +0000 https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=57660#comment-609912 I believe this is what is considered yellow/green turquoise

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