Yesterday i received 2 little jars with unidentified turquoise.
What is known is that it came from the USA as part of a lapidary collection. This time the seller had insufficient data about the type of turquoise, but expected it to be mostly Sleeping Beauty. I agree with him for the most part, but am not sure about part of it.
1 jar arrived like this:
The other like this:
After examining everything closely i sorted out the stuff that i felt wasn’t SB. Some stones look more like Number 8 to me, some are more on the greener side of things plus there are a few non-turquoise crumbs:
There are also a couple of unfinished cabs in the lot:
Now about the Sleeping Beauty part; about half of the lot does look like the classic SB to me:
it’s the other half i’m not sure about:
dry:
wet:
I’m hoping that some of you can point me in the right direction. Whatever these stones are, i really do like them a lot and am eager to learn about 'em
