What Is "Multi Turquoise", "Turkey Turquoise" And "Striped Turquoise" ?

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What Is "Multi Turquoise", "Turkey Turquoise" And "Striped Turquoise" ?

striped turquoise and turkey turquoise

I've recently seen many beads and stones labeled "multi-turquoise" or "striped turquoise", "mosaic turquoise" and another called "Turkey turquoise".

Are these, any part, real turquoise? The picture contains both the Turkey turquoise and the striped turquoise.

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What Is "Multi Turquoise", "Turkey Turquoise" And "Striped Turquoise" ?

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Calsilica
by: SimplyStacyJewelry

You're very welcome. It is beautiful, isn't it!? :)

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by: Wendy

Thanks Stacey. Very informative. I make jewellery and I've been trying to find out exactly what this bead is.

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Multi Turquoise or Turkey Turquoise
by: SimplyStacyJewelry

This is really called Rainbow Calsilica. I sell them on my site and so I did some research and copied what I found below:

"An artifical material created for carving / lapidary purposes. Contains a mixture of calcite, plastic and artifical colouring pigments (PB15, an art-supply pigment), and a paraffin-like material. [ref: Winter 2002, Gems and Gemology, journal of Gemological Institute of America]

Although suppliers claim it to be a natural stone, tests have indicated that it is probably powdered carbonate rock artificially coloured and then stabilized with plastic."

Some people say these stones are natural, some say they are man-made. I would assume that they are dyed calcite. Whatever they are, they sure are pretty!!

Here is a link to the ones in my store. I took pictures of these outside, so they are very close to what they look like in person:
(squares)

(rounds)

Hope this helps!

Stacy
Simply Stacy Jewelry and Supply
www.SimplyStacyJewelry.etsy.com
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