Remarkable Sharon Cisco Navajo SleepingBeauty Turquoise SterlingSilver Earrings For Sale

This is a superior pair of Navajo earrings having sleeping beauty turquoise ovals surrounded by silver rope borders and handcarved silver feather pendants with handmade silver hooks for pierced ears! Very Impressive! The earrings measure about 2\"½ top to bottom. Sterling silver, marked s.c made by Sharon Cisco Navajo The earrings weigh around 4.5 grams. Sharon Cisco is a perfectionist when it comes to his jewelry designs and he comes from a family of silversmiths that have been making stamped silver jewelry for several generations. All of his pieces are hand made and stamped great addition to your collection Sleeping Beauty\" : an iconic name and history

Sleeping Beauty turquoise takes its poetic name from the shape of the mountain from which this intense blue stone is extracted. The mountain is located near the town of Globe, Arizona, USA. Indeed, looking at this mountain from far away, you can see the profile of a woman lying down.

The mountain had been named like this for many moons, and when the mine was open it took the same name as this beautiful pick.

The Sleeping Beauty Mountain excavations were initially focused on copper and gold, but mining stopped in the early 1960s. When it was reopened a few years later, mining turned to copper and turquoise. The mine ceased all operations in the early 2010s. During these few decades of operation, the Sleeping Beauty mine was the largest producer of American turquoise, and the stone has since become a mythical turquoise.

Today, with the mine closed and no plans to reopen, this turquoise is only found in small quantities and is only used by native silversmith to create jewelry with small cabochons of Sleeping Beauty turquoise. The fact that the turquoise is not mined makes it as rare as it is precious and sought-after. Genuine Sleeping Beauty turquoise jewelry is a fine investment and a guarantee of authenticity.