Natural Tibetan Turquoise Backed Cabochon 122 - Cab Of order Baby Blue and Slate Grey Matrix For Handmade Jewelry Native American Jewelry Chinese

This incredible natural free-form Tibetan turquoise cabochon is backed and ready to be set. See all order photos for variations in color depending on lighting.

Weighs 20.0 carats

19mm wide by 27mm long; 5mm thick

Tibetan Turquoise is mined in the Himilayas and is usually blue-green to green in color. Clear blue that is found in American and Persian
Turquoise is very rare in Tibetan Turquoise. Tibetan is most sought after by Nepalese and Tibetan people for its spiritual powers as well as its beauty. Turquoise has been a part of the people of the Himalayas for thousands of years, as they consider it to be secured for its metaphysical and spiritual values. Most every person in the Himalayas has and wears Turquoise in one form or another.
There are four sources of Tibetan Turquoise; The finest material comes from an area in the Gangschan Mountains of Ngari-Khorsum in Western Tibet. Another area is in the region between Lhasa and the China-Tibetan border near the town of Chamdo which is about 400 miles north-east of Lhasa. There is another location at Draya to the west of Bathang, and the fourth area is in the mountains of the state of Derge in Eastern Tibet. Though Tibetan turquoise can often be lumped in with other Chinese turquoise mines like Hubei, it is much more rare and distinct.