What is Carico turquoise?

Carico Lake turquoise is named after the location of its mine on a dried up lake bed in a high, cool area of Lander County, Nevada. Its clear, iridescent, spring green color is due to its zinc content and is highly unique and collectible.

What does Carico Lake turquoise look like?

Carico Lake turquoise is known for its clear, iridescent, spring green color which is due to its zinc and copper content. Carico Lake stones can also display a dark blue-green color with a black spider web matrix. Recent finds are producing many new blue tones with even, black matrix.

Is green turquoise valuable?

There are no large deposits of Lime Green Turquoise in the United States and this color of Turquoise is very rare, valuable and highly collectible. To sum it up, Lime Green Turquoise is absolutely a rarity in nature.

What is the rarest color of turquoise?

Lander Blue Spiderweb Turquoise is some of the rarest Turquoise on earth and in high demand, Buyers must beware of impersonators, the highest grade of Chinese Spiderweb Turquoise is often sold as Lander Blue Turquoise, it takes an experienced professional to detect true Lander Blue Turquoise.

Who owns Carico Lake turquoise mine?

Ernie Montoya’s Sunwest Silver
Considered to have one of the largest private collection of North American turquoise in the world, Ernie Montoya’s Sunwest Silver owns five major turquoise mines in the West, the Carico Lake mine being one of the his most precious.

Where is Carico Lake turquoise mine?

Lander County, Nevada
The Carico Lake Turquoise is located South of Battle Mountain in Lander County, Nevada USA. This Turquoise Mine produces Turquoise in multiple shades of blues to beautiful greens.

How can you tell if green turquoise is real?

The most effective way to identify real Turquoise is to do the scratch test. Howlite or other materials fake Turquoise is made from are softer stones than genuine Turquoise. Lightly use your nail to scratch a less visible part of the stone like the backside and if it scratches easily, it’s howlite.

What is the price of green turquoise?

The price of turquoise stones normally range from $1 to $10 per carat but can range from $0.05 to $1000 per carat depending on the quality.

What is the highest grade turquoise?

The rarer the stone’s color, the more valuable the stone. TQI color grading is done on a scale from 1 to 10. A score of a 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.

Can turquoise have quartz in it?

Much of the translucent turquoise runs within cracks in vicinity of large bodies of quartz that are speckled throughout the deposit. There is always an exception and we sometimes find translucent material that is botroydial, has quartz matrix or even a block like shape.