Turquoise has been one of the wolds most popular stones for thousands of years, and right now it is hotter than hot in fashion! It is a funny market, the stone business, and turquoise is no exception. It has suffered in the past when the Chinese mines started dumping loads of turquoise on the market, but again it is back on top and you can see shades of turquoise in everything from fabric, to cars, to jewelry, especially beads. The color is everywhere, but the stone is not; those bright flashes may be natural turquoise, but also might be any of a number of imitations — glass, plastic, other stones of similar appearance, or even dyed organic matter, such as coconut husks or cement.

It is the natural turquoise mineral though, that has withstood the test of time. It has surging in and out of fashion like a strobe light, yet never really losing its popularity, just being more popular at certain times than others. From as far back as 6,000 B.C., turquoise has been mined, traded, and revered by ancient cultures in Egypt, Persia, Turkey, and China as well as in the New World, by the Aztecs, Incas, and tribes of the southwestern United States and Mexico.

This website is dedicated to the love of this wonderful stone and an accumulation of five years of information personally collected in my persuite for knowledge of the skystone, as well as generations of knowledge I have come accross. I hope you will enjoy reading and view this information as much as I love studying it. I will continue to update and add to the site as new information becomes available to me.