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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1794531, member: 2844&quot;]I still have my mother&#039;s set, which include earrings and a ring as well as the pendant/brooch.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I agree, Mexicans make a lot of turquoise chip jewellery (and dyed chip). But that is more of a classic turquoise colour. When we bought my mother&#039;s set in Taxco we were were told that they were malachite with a bit of lapis mixed in. And that is what it looks like too. </p><p>If you look at the one flipper posted you also see malachite green with some banding and a few lapis blue specks: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]240199[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if there was some dye involved, btw, just like in those Mexican &#039;malachite&#039; chip pre-Columbian replica reliefs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original Mixtec one is gold with turquoise, the turquoise was traded from what is now the US Southwest:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mixtecs/mixtec-gold-10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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