Turquoise is in and out the fashion world for a long time. If you look for new in 1960s to 1970s, turquoise was really popular among that time. High demand on turquoise production war reported in that time. However, in the early 1980s, the demand was fade out. But now, it’s time for the turquoise to come back again in this century. The turquoise demand is continuously increasing in recent years and thus making its way to comeback. It is not surprise to know about this as the beauty of turquoise is always catches the people attention whenever they look at the stone.
Natural turquoise is actually coming withhigh price especially when compare with stimulants or plasticized/ stabilized turquoise. The reason is really involved with the availability of naturally turquoise which rarely found, even rarer than diamonds or gold. As the result, the price of top quality of natural turquoise is never come down, in the similar way as diamond prices. They are always increase if you are really falling in love with the natural turquoise stone, you are suggested to look for the real one now and go with it if you can afford for the cost.
Production of natural turquoise is also another factor for its high price. The mining technique is still using the primitive manner by break the stone out of the rock with a hammer can chisel. The technique is used for protection of turquoise from its mother rock. Therefore, the technique is man-base with labor intensive process. And not all the turquoise found in the mine can be sale as the world class gemstone grade. The high quality turquoise is coming with hard stone qualities which will not scratch easily even you are wearing the piece every day.
Turquoise was popularly used in Native American culture which you can see lots of them were used in beads formats; sliced, drilled and strung with different filaments for different bead jewelry designs and styles. The old beads from necklace of this time are now cost around $600 and the price can also increase if the beads were made by a famous Native America bead makers. The high grade turquoise is now sold by carat unit like the other gemstone. You can mix and match the old and new turquoise into your jewelry piece if you like. The stone will last with you for a longer time.
