[Jewelry making - Article 00029] - Re: [Orchid] Untreated Peruvian turquoise rough

[Lindsay Legler]

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>    This is a fairy tale created to justify stabilization of turquoise. 

    Tell me why the Aztecs oiled and waxed their turquoise, then? 

    And explain how, with the chemical/geological/gemological make-up of
    turquoise that it can be hard enough? It's very structure is porous
    in nature. 

    Turquoise that is that hard and non-porous is the fairy tale. I'm
    willing to suspend disbelief enough to say that there may be some
    VERY RARE pieces that have this quality, but I would also venture to
    say that no one on this list either has access to them or can afford
    them. And they were mined over 70 if not 100 years ago. 

    Sorry Leonid, on this one, you're wrong when it comes to anything
    that can realistically be obtained. And if you sell someone
    turquoise that you did not personally dig up and say that it's not
    stabilized, treated or altered, you're misleading your customers. 

Lindsay Legler
Dreaming Dragon Designs
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