Ethiopian Turquoise Bridal Fashion Necklace Gold Jewellery 62

Ethiopian Turquoise Bridal Fashion  Necklace Set Gold Jewellery. 

By Aamir Mannan.

In 1912, the first deposit of distinct, single-crystal turquoise was discovered in Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia. The crystals, forming a druse over the mother rock, are very small; 1 mm (0.04 in) is considered large. Until the 1980s Virginia was widely thought to be the only source of distinct crystals; there are now at least 27 other localities