Beautiful sterling silver pendant is set with Fox Turquoise.
Whole Size: 1.46" x 0.96"
Stone Size: 1.05" x 0.68"
Bail Size: 0.30" x 0.19"
Material:Sterling Silver (Silver925)
Weight: 0.52Oz 14.74grams
Artist/Tribe: Steve Arviso (Navajo)
Steve was born in 1963, in Gallup NM. He started making jewelry in 1987. Most of his designs come from his old friend and teacher Harry Morgan and his experiences of making fashion jewelry. His jewelry is always made with the high-grade turquoise and leaves the piece simple and beautiful.
Stone: Fox Turquoise
The Fox Turquoise mine, near Lander County in Nevada was discovered in the early 1900’s. It was once Nevada’s largest producer of turquoise with some half million pounds. This mine has been closed for quite some time. In prehistoric times, indigenous peoples mined turquoise and found large nuggets. It produced a huge quantity of good-quality green or blue-green stone with a distinctive matrix. The Fox mine has also been known as the Cortez mine.
