Tibet Story • Sacred Amulet Ornament Turquoise

Turquoise is also known as Turkey jade, and its English name is Turquoise.

Turquoise is a very old jade.

Known in ancient Egypt, it was regarded as a sacred object and used as an amulet ornament. In the Neolithic age, our country decorated the green Matsushi Cho.

Turquoise chemistry belongs to three oblique crystal system, but crystal is very rare.

Most of them are crypto crystalline amorphous, shell like, nodular, and renal bodies.

The colors are bright green, apple green, sky blue, blue green and yellow green. Copper and iron are coloring elements.

Much opaque, waxy luster, hardness 5 1 6, specific gravity 2.60 - 2.80, refractive index 1.61 1 1.65, two axial crystal (+).

Turquoise YISHION sky blue, and the quality of pure, fine, solid and smooth is the best, apple green, yellow green second, turquoise is mainly used as jewelry, beads, bottles, stoves, characters and other crafts.

The world's gem grade turquoise is mainly produced by exogenous leaching.

Turquoise is found in the fractured zone of carbonaceous siliceous slate.

Turquoise is sky blue and lake blue or apple green, and its tone is straight and uniform. It is often oolitic, bean shaped and tumor like.

Turquoise is one of the rare precious gemstones in the world. Turquoise products have become important collectibles. They are a kind of secondary minerals, which are formed by leaching of groundwater containing copper, aluminum and phosphorus in early granite rocks, and precipitate in the veins near the ground to form tuberculosis, which is wrapped by the matrix of the veins.

Turquoise is the earliest mineral variety used as decorations.

As ornaments, people love Turquoise's green and texture.

In ancient times, people connected it with religion and superstition.

Tibet, China, is particularly respectful of turquoise, and is still a sacred ornament for religious ceremonies.

American Indians think turquoise is the spirit of the sea and the blue sky, and is the symbol of divine power.

Most ancient civilizations advocate turquoise, such as Egypt, Persia, Aztec (ancient Mexico Indians).

Turquoise is different in color because of its different elements. The copper bearing oxide is bluish and green with iron oxide. Color is an important factor affecting the quality of turquoise.

Turquoise is mainly produced by the southern states of the United States, the northeastern part of Iran, and the Sinai peninsula of Egypt.

China, Australia, Chile, Afghanistan and Russia also produce a small amount of turquoise, but now the largest Turquoise gem in the world is produced on the cloud cover mountain in Yunxian, Hubei, which is more than 1200 meters above sea level.

This turquoise is 82 centimeters long, 29 centimeters tall and wide, weighing 66 kilograms. It is blue and green, with complete structure and fine texture.