Morenci turquoise ring w/diamonds and 14kt gold

This stunnig 14kt gold ring is a GL Studio original design. Featuring over 80 diamonds in a double row surrounding a large high mount oval Sonoran gold turquoise stone. The turquoise stone has beautiful coloring and measures  approximately 13mm x 15mm with a height of 8mm. The stone is prong set. The diamonds are also prong set tightly around the turquoise stone, the mounting curves underneath and connects to thick gold ring shank that has 6 diamonds on each side. The underneath mounting has its own creative design. This unique design makes quite a statement when worn. Custom ring sizes available and take 2 weeks, please contact us for more details.

Stone: 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. It also is sometimes webbed in a darker shade of blue, called water webbed. Morenci turquoise is well known because it was one of the first American turquoises to come on the modern market and is often difficult to obtain because the mine is now depleted, making it an exceedingly collectible 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.