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TURQUOISE
by Jon Ber
From Green to
Blue, with black unique signature inclusions vanes running
untamed, the gemstone universal reverence is phenomenal.
Turquoise was
named after the country of Turkey, when 17th century
traders on the Silk Road to China, introduced the gemstone
to the western world via the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul.
Still Grand
indeed. Traders world wonder. With 4000 shops in a
magnificent casbah and merchandise from everywhere around
the clock.
Tibetan merchants still carry Turquoise in its original
state of rocks, on their back and head, from the "roof of
the world" the Himalayan mountains to the country's capital
Lhasa.
From there, Chinese traders bring the gemstone to Hong Kong
where it is sold by the kilo to buyers from all continents.
Ascribed Mystical qualities and its popular colors, made
Turquoise the most costly of all none transparent
gemstones.
Its been used in the creations of jewelry and ornaments for
as long as 8000 years.
American Natives as well as indigenous Asian tribes,
consider the stone as highly spiritual & it is
regularly used in religious and cultural ceremonies across
the world.
Jon
Ber is the publisher of jonber.com, a former investigative
journalist and a traveler of seventy countries living in
North Carolina USA .