{"id":257,"date":"2018-04-01T20:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2018-04-02T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:17:14","slug":"nevada-turquoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/01\/nevada-turquoise\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Turquoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know I love turquoise, all kinds of turquoise, but especially what is referred to as &#8220;domestic&#8221; turquoise, turquoise that is mined here in the U.S. The above image is a bracelet with a focal point stone of &#8220;boulder turquoise&#8221; from the Royston Mine near Tonopah, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Royston-earrings.png\" alt=\"Royston-earrings\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" img style=\"margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px\"\/> I generally refer to my turquoise either by the state it is from, in this case Nevada, or by the name of the mine. The term &#8220;boulder turquoise&#8221; refers to the fact that the turquoise is still in it&#8217;s boulder, or rock matrix, rather than just being a nugget of turquoise. Cut stones from &#8220;boulder turquoise&#8221; are also sometimes called &#8220;ribbon turquoise&#8221; when the turquoise vein is flanked by contrasting matrix stone creating what looks like a ribbon of turquoise through the stone. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Royston-pendant.png\" alt=\"Royston-pendant\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" img style=\"margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px\"\/> I love when I get the opportunity to purchase stones directly from the miners. I purchased all these stones from the Otteson family who regularly set up a booth at both the Denver and Tucson Gem shows each year. The Ottesons have been mining turquoise from the Royston region for over 60 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I love turquoise, all kinds of turquoise, but especially what is referred to as &#8220;domestic&#8221; turquoise, turquoise that is mined here in the U.S. The above image is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,28,14],"tags":[56,60,58,59,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocelynhunter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}