Sleeping Beauty Turquoise is from just outside of Globe, Arizona. The mine name comes from the outline of the mountain range. Namely, the outline of the mountain looks like a woman laying on her back!
This turquoise is a beautiful sky blue! In general, this turquoise starts off with a white or tan matrix. Markedly, the mine owners explain the appearance of the turquoise. Black media mixes with the turquoise, via a cement mixer. The black attaches itself to where the white and tan matrix occurs. Another key point is that any pieces which are lacking any matrix, goes directly over seas. The American public like the black contrast.
We have among the last marketed Sleeping Beauty Turquoise nuggets. They come direct from the miners of the Sleeping Beauty Mine Turquoise in Globe, Arizona.
The mine is now CLOSED and there is NO new Sleeping Beauty Turquoise available. Consequently, the mine last produces turquoise in 2012.
The nugget in the picture is representative of the nuggets we have in stock.
Each nugget is different, as it comes “straight from the mine.”
Uniquely, these Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Nuggets are only available at Tucson Lapidary
Sleeping Beauty Nuggets on cards, direct from the mine owners.
The Sleeping Beauty Mine has closed.
They are only $25.00 per card.
By all means, we have among the last photographs of the Sleeping Beauty Mine Headquarters in Globe, Arizona. Finally, Tucson Lapidary is inside theAmerican Antique Mall
