My immediate family have been Traders to the Navajo for 5 generations here in the Four Corners area of the USA Southwest. We are proud to offer completely natural, gem quality strands from the Sleeping Beauty mine in Arizona. This top grade material was hand selected by the mine's owners and was cut perfectly round by a top overseas shop for the international market. This quality and color of turquoise is usually found in only the very best fine jewelry stores word wide.
All strands are a gorgeous robin's egg blue.
Hence, some sort of hardening treatment of this ancient, relatively soft mineral is needed. Resin stabilized turquoise leaves a slightly waxy surface. The natural color is not affected and the minerals are the very same in natural turquoise. Enhancing produces a clean, glassy hard surface. Our cousin, Sterling Foutz, owns the exclusive franchise for this new process.