This moon ring features a natural turquoise crescent moon that I cut myself from the Blue gem turquoise mine. Set in sterling silver plain fine silver bezel on a sterling silver half round band.
US size 7.5
Ring dimensions: 16.2mm tall and 16.2mm wide
Ring band dimensions: 2mm wide and 1mm thick
The Blue Gem mine, which is no longer active, produced almost every shade of green and blue turquoise imaginable. The Blue Gem mine site is located near Battle Mountain. It produced a great variety of turquoise, from intense blue to deep green combinations with a hard, irregularly distributed matrix. The Battle Mountain or Blue Gem mine, which began production in 1934 yielded the most valuable Blue Gem turquoise because of its rich color and hardness.
