White Turquoise Sterling Silver Pendant

This sterling silver pendant features a beautiful White Turquoise cabochon. I bezel set this large oval cabochon, and framed it with individually soldered large and small granulation.  It has an enclosed back which helps protect the beautiful cabochon and also adds substantial silver weight to the piece.  It measures approximately 1 ½” not including the bail. This pendant comes with a 16” sterling silver chain, however the bail is large enough to accommodate thicker chains if you want to swap this one out.

White Turquoise has become one of the hottest semi-precious stones in jewelry within the last 5 years and is now seen on runways around the world. The stone was originally discovered in 1993 in Nevada, at the very end of the Dry Creek Turquoise Mine on the Shoshone Indian Reservation. White turquoise lacks the presence of any of the metals that give turquoise its colors…copper for blue, and iron for green, and morphs itself into Dolomite or Aragonite, both of which are found in various locations around the world. The White Turquoise stone from the Dry Creek Mine is the only one traded under the name White Buffalo Turquoise. Among my listings I have several pieces created with White Turquoise cabochons from Africa, and several that were created with genuine Dry Creek White Buffalo Turquoise cabochons which will be listed as such.