[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about GEMS & JEWELRY - StudyStack [PAR] A SMALL AMOUNT OF COPPER IN THIS STATE GEMSTONE OF NEW MEXICO 
GIVES IT ITS BLUISH COLOR, TURQUOISE. THE KASHMIR VARIETY OF... [DOC] [TLE] Arizona Gemstones - Turquoise, Peridot, Petrified Wood [PAR] Arizona is world-famous for its turquoise, peridot, and petrified wood. The state is 
also famous for copper, and a variety of copper minerals are mined as 
gemstones. ... others have on-call gem miners who receive limited-time access to 
a new find. ... These mines include: Kingman (famous for its "high blue" color and 
black... [DOC] [TLE] Azurite: The blue gem material, ore of copper, and pigment. [PAR] Geology.comNewsRocksMineralsGemstonesArticlesDictionaryState ... The 
carbonic acid of these waters dissolves small amounts of copper from ... In the 
United States, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah are the notable locations for 
finding azurite. ... It contains copper, which gives its blue color and a specific 
gravity of 3.7 to... [DOC] [TLE] Gem Silica: The blue, most valuable variety of chalcedony [PAR] A bluish green to greenish blue chalcedony that obtains its color from copper. ... 
in jewelry and is used mainly by a small number of high-end jewelry designers. ... 
and in limited amounts from locations in New Mexico, Mexico, Peru, Taiwan, and 
the ... attribute the color to "the same copper salts that give chrysocolla its color. [DOC] [TLE] Turquoise - Wikipedia [PAR] Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrated phosphate of 
copper and ... The refractive index (as measured by sodium light, 589.3 nm) of 
turquoise is .... Several mines exist in the state, two of them famous for their 
unique colour ... The crystals, forming a druse over the mother rock, are very 
small; 1 mm... [DOC] [TLE] Earth Matters: Gemstones of New Mexico - New Mexico Bureau of ... [PAR] summer 2016. Published by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral 
Resources  A Division of New Mexico Tech ... the classic, Kelly blue smithsonite 
... highlighting their abundance ... a copper color similar to sunstones found ... 
small amounts of gemstones and gem mate- ... metamorphic rocks throughout the 
state. [DOC] [TLE] Turquoise Value, Price, and Jewelry Information - International Gem ... [PAR] Turquoise: Arizona and New Mexico (right rear nugget ~ 2 inches long). 
Comments. Chemically, turquoise is a hydrated copper/aluminum phosphate of ... 
of blue to blue-green to yellowish green depending on the amount of trace 
elements. ... Proposite, especially the Mexican material with its light-blue color, is 
another... [DOC] [TLE] Gemstone Terminology - Earthmother Crafts [PAR] Blue Lace Agate: is a unique natural form of Agate, pale blue in color, laced .... 
Other primary sources for Aragonite are Mexico, Morocco, New Mexico, and 
Arizona. ... by its inclusions of shiny minerals, usually mica or hematite, that give 
the stone a .... as Turquoise, only with lower amounts of copper, aluminum and/or 
iron. [DOC] [TLE] Chemistry - Ray Sahelian, M.D. [PAR] Activated Charcoal traps gases, it is riddled with small pores, used to treat poison 
or toxin ... Copper element is Cu, It was the first nonprecious metal man made 
into tools ..... Turquoise dec, blue green western us copper/aluminum, A small 
amount of copper in this state gemstone of New Mexico gives it its bluish color. [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Gemstones - Rocks and Minerals Magazine [PAR] Superb amethyst specimens and gem rough are currently being mined at 
Jacksons .... and turquoise mining did not resume here or elsewhere in New 
Mexico until ... The Sleeping Beauty copper mine, Globe, Gila County, Arizona, 
an important .... Despite its sapphire-blue color, benitoite was not widely 
accepted as a gem... [DOC] [TLE] State Symbols - New Mexico Secretary of State [PAR] It consisted of a blue field with a miniature United States flag in the upper left 
corner, the .... Chemically, it is a phosphate of aluminum carrying small quantities 
of copper and ... These give

Question: A small amount of copper in this state gemstone of New Mexico gives it its bluish color
Answer: Turquoise