Raw turquoise

These are some random pieces of raw turquoise I have acquired, no information on where they’re from or even whether all of it is actually turquoise.


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On the first photo, the cuff, the big junk on the left, the pendant, the ring (wow!), and the blue chip in the top right (could also be a mint chocolate chip, try it) look like real turquoise to me.
Same for the cuff and the ring on the second photo. Looks hand made.
Most other stones look massively treated/stabilized, if turquoise at all. Very unsure about the beautiful orange & light green speckled piece.
I am not a pro but like guessing to see later how many I got right, after experts have taken their more educated guesses.
Close-ups always help.

Way too much for me to take in at once (that’s a lot of stuff in one picture), but I’ll make a couple comments.

I love the 5 stone cuff, no good guess on the turquoise. I would think the stones in all the jewelry pieces are turquoise; don’t know about all of the individual stones. I wonder if the top pendant turquoise is Chinese (not sure if the color of matrix is coming across accurately), and if the top ring stone is Number 8. I’m guessing the bottom right pendant is amber?

I have looked at a lot of turquoise throughout my life, and I often still can’t tell if something is heavily treated or stabilized, so I have no clue about yours.

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A bit hard to tell from the photos but i’d guess the blue/green stones look like turquoise, except for these 2 perhaps:


Top one Variscite? Bottom one dyed Magnesite?

The rough stones mostly appear to have been stabilized imho

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