Beautiful coin silver ring is set with Fox Turquoise.
Ring size: 8.5
Width: 0.50"
Shank width: 0.39"
Stone size: 0.26" x 0.34"
Material: Coin Silver
Weight: 0.64oz (18.14Gram)
Artist/Tribe: Jesse Robbins (Creek)
Jesse's work starts with old U.S. coins and a hand-carved tufa mold. The coins are melted down into an ingot and hand wrought. From the prepared ingot he carefully stamps, files, and finishes the metal work. Much of his work is finished with hand-cut stones including turquoise, spiny oyster, sugilite, Acoma jet, and coral.
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.
Note: This ring is sized according to US standards.
