Vintage 1960's cuff bracelet w/Morenci Turquoise

Vintage 1960's cuff bracelet. Handcrafted by a Navajo artist. Set in solid sterling silver and genuine Morenci Turquoise. Measuring only 3/4" at its widest point, this is a small bracelet. Comfortable and easy to wear. A piece of Native American History. Morenci Turquoise: Morenci Turquoise is mined in southeastern Arizona, in Greenlee County. It is light blue to high blue in color. Morenci has an unusual matrix of irregular black pyrite, or fool’s gold; when polished, the pyrite often looks like silver. turquoise. Material coming out in the 1960’s seems to be harder, tending more to the blue greens, usually with the pyrite. In the 1970’s, the material was a much brighter blue, often with quartz along with the pyrite