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not if you look closely...

 

Might have been made by a beginner. I have a lot of green turquoise.

 

I've never seen green turq like this before..

 

Looks more like variscite than turquoise.

 

@Hollyblue

I wasn’t familiar with variscite so I looked it up and was shocked by how much it looks like green turquoise. My personal love of green turquoise goes back to the old Cerrillos NM mine. What kept bugging me was all the white matrix in the OP’s piece. I’m not familiar with that in turquoise and it was in most of the varisicte photos I googled. Is that assumption correct? Is variscite known to be used in SW jewelry? This is all new to me. Love this board and TY for posting.

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=sw+...zYvkAhVFIqwKHbv2AasQ8NMDCLwB&biw=1513&bih=867

 

@Hollyblue Yes but that doesn’t answer my question about the white matrix.

 

Yes,it can have white,black,brown,etc. matrix.Sometimes it looks like turquoise with black matrix ... http://rarenativeamerican.com/category/julian/

 

TY

 

Following Holly's lead, found these. Stone is close to OP's.

https://lumenrosejewelry.com/collections/all/products/broken-arrow-variscite-silver-studs

 

I can certainly see why Veriscite is confused with turquoise. I never heard of it before but kept thinking that the OP’s ring was the oddest looking turquoise I’ve ever seen. Still a very cool looking vintage piece. Again, thanks Holly for a continuing education!

 

Is it possible it's a broken arrow rather than a lightning bolt? Broken Arrow is the name of the mine that produced the variscite that is so like the stone in the ring.

 

there's a thought....