Turquoise

pierre turquoise — “the Turkish stone”

Turquoise rough specimen on dark stone
Provenance
Nishapur, Iran · Hubei, China · the American Southwest
Mineral family
Phosphate of copper — sky made mineral
Hardness
Mohs 5–6 — worn with a little care
Energy
Calm — The sky-shield frequency — calm that travels with you.
Humanity’s oldest mined gem — Sinai shafts predate the pyramids — and possibly its most traveled: the French named it “Turkish stone” only because the caravans came through. Persia held the finest sky-blue for millennia and gave it a promise: see a turquoise at first light, and the day is already lucky.
“To see a turquoise at first light is to be lucky all day.”Persian lore · Nishapur
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