ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TURQUOISE  – 1

Throughout the world Turquoise is mined in many places. apparent blue in Persian turquoise is considered as the best turquoise. Indian mines manufacture green turquoise whereas Chinese mines produce a wide variety of colored turquoise. Many family owned mines in Southwestern US produces many colored and different quality turquoise.

The simplest way of describing the process of turquoise formation is that while water penetrates through rocks which contain aluminum, copper and other such minerals, turquoise is deposited as a result of some chemical reaction. But this happens over many millions of years and happens only in some complex set of conditions.