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<p>[QUOTE="Michael Goller, post: 4406908, member: 62852"]The same thing is true of turquoise. Much more modern turquoise is injected with resin and heated to allow the resin to penetrate and harden allow the stone to be hard enough to be cut-able. This true even for much of the high quality modern jewelry turquoise. The issue is that it's very hard to find natural nuggets of turquoise hard enough and large enough to be cutable for jewelry. What there was has mostly already been found by the Native Americans. That's why old Indian turquoise jewelry is so special - not only for it's artistry, history, culture and rarity, but also because of the very high quality and rarity of the natural stone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael (Georarities)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Goller, post: 4406908, member: 62852"]The same thing is true of turquoise. Much more modern turquoise is injected with resin and heated to allow the resin to penetrate and harden allow the stone to be hard enough to be cut-able. This true even for much of the high quality modern jewelry turquoise. The issue is that it's very hard to find natural nuggets of turquoise hard enough and large enough to be cutable for jewelry. What there was has mostly already been found by the Native Americans. That's why old Indian turquoise jewelry is so special - not only for it's artistry, history, culture and rarity, but also because of the very high quality and rarity of the natural stone. Michael (Georarities)[/QUOTE]
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