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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kathy Anderson, post: 897810, member: 10843&quot;]Wow; am impressed.&nbsp; Will have to look up &#039;leaverite.&#039;&nbsp; Am guessing a few of the turquoise looking nuggets may be dyed &amp; stabilized turquoise?</p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful images!</p><p>#1 - My insecurity on these is the thickness of the dark brown veins.&nbsp; Neither of the American mines that I know of with this color vein (Morenci in AZ and Blue Diamond in NV) that looks bubbled up like that?&nbsp; Have an age on the piece?</p><p>#2 - My guess is genuine turquoise nuggets, at least stabilized (maybe dyed, but feel not).&nbsp; The light brown spider webbing is common to NV, AZ, NM and UT.&nbsp; The accompanying, worn brown cord helps lead me in that direction.</p><p>#3 - Same as #2 and the blue is likely sodalite.&nbsp; Insecurity comes from new cording.</p><p>#4 - Chinese turquoise; could be block/reformed turquoise, (they grind up all kinds of white chaulk/dye, then cut from it), or a mix of lower grade and better grade real turquoise, dyed, cut and rounded.&nbsp; Only cracking one in half and putting it under a microscope would say for sure.</p><p>#5 - See reply to HollyBlue.</p><p>#6 - Genuine and a really nice piece.&nbsp; Given the other items in the piece, probably Chinese or Tibetan.</p><p>#7 - Guessing genuine nuggets, most likely from Asia.</p><p>None of this is certain; I lived in NM for almost 20 years, so I picked up knacks, but it&#039;s impossible to tell without destructive testing.&nbsp; :^)</p><p>How close did I come?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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