RARE White Creek Turquoise (Nevada) Large Graduated 8-16mm Nugget Beads, 16.5 inch Strand
This is an incredible find! This will fly out the door. Get it while it lasts. The light powder blue saturated color is amazing and there is pyrite matrix mixed in.
White Creek Turquoise is some of the rarest and least known Turquoise to have come out of Nevada.
The White Creek Turquoise Mine Produces a beautiful white turquoise, and yes it is actually turquoise, not Calcite or Magnesite. A lot of This material has a slight blue tint to it, and it looks a lot like Dry Creek turquoise from the Godber mine. The other look of This material is very similar to the White Buffalo Calcite look. Good stuff if you like the white turquoise look, cuts nicely. This stone makes wild turquoise jewelry, more fitting to silver jewelry than gold jewelry. The White Creek Turquoise has many different looks to it and may have many more. The White Creek Turquoise mine is currently composed of several small glory holes and one larger glory hole that is almost a tunnel. I am sure some day it could become a open pit cut by a bulldozer or excavator if the current popularity of Turquoise remains or grows larger. It is certain much of the White Creek Turquoise has been used in jewelry and called White Buffalo Turquoise or "White Turquoise".
