No thats not the real famous "Persian turquoise"! These are from turquoise from a mine in Southern Iran called Kerman. It was not a source of turquoise until recently because the stone has to get stabilized in order to be cut and polished. The ancient real Persian turquoise comes from the North of Iran from the Neishabour Mine. That mine is said to have been in operation for 7000 years. It produces some of the highest qualities of turquoise which is hard mainly and has a wide range of colors and patterns. It is usually in thin seams and is expensive even in Iran as is in high demand. The turquoise from Kerman can come in very large chunks, usually with a lot of pyrite, and after stabilization becomes a nice blue colour and sometimes you get green too. You can recognize them by their dark color and most of the time with pyrite (while the Neishabour materials rarely have pyrite in them. There are some less known mines in Iran such as Semnan... In Iran, the value of Kerman turquoise is a fraction of Neishabour turquoise. We call stabilized or harmed by oil turquoise a "dead turquoise" while a natural turquoise is called a living stone. I am an Iranian (in Australia) and do sell both. I will have new stocks hopefully soon. A bit difficult to get it out of the country. I also have access to some other rare Iranian stones such as Demantoid, Zunyite, Vary,scite and Iranian Wulfanite.
Mike Ryan! Awesome educater...
Another great show. Thks Dave❤
Hello Dave. It was a pleasure to meet you in Denver. Great video.
salman you are absolutely amazing my brother
Wow... what was that big rock at the beginning? Persian? What ever it was WOW!
Nice ! Thanks for the education! A serious collectors event!
No thats not the real famous "Persian turquoise"!
These are from turquoise from a mine in Southern Iran called Kerman. It was not a source of turquoise until recently because the stone has to get stabilized in order to be cut and polished.
The ancient real Persian turquoise comes from the North of Iran from the Neishabour Mine. That mine is said to have been in operation for 7000 years. It produces some of the highest qualities of turquoise which is hard mainly and has a wide range of colors and patterns. It is usually in thin seams and is expensive even in Iran as is in high demand.
The turquoise from Kerman can come in very large chunks, usually with a lot of pyrite, and after stabilization becomes a nice blue colour and sometimes you get green too. You can recognize them by their dark color and most of the time with pyrite (while the Neishabour materials rarely have pyrite in them. There are some less known mines in Iran such as Semnan... In Iran, the value of Kerman turquoise is a fraction of Neishabour turquoise. We call stabilized or harmed by oil turquoise a "dead turquoise" while a natural turquoise is called a living stone.
I am an Iranian (in Australia) and do sell both. I will have new stocks hopefully soon. A bit difficult to get it out of the country. I also have access to some other rare Iranian stones such as Demantoid, Zunyite, Vary,scite and Iranian Wulfanite.
Another awesome shew😂 Dave the Fave!!❤❤🎉
That hackmanite is amazing I want now
Thumbs up ER🎉
Hello Dave!❤
hello my friend
Paul Deasy pretty good too
please do a phenakite show thanks
Just got bumped off the live chat
weird i wonder why brother
Same, it just disappeared.... could not get it back
Cool but what about the martians? They may not want us there taking rocks
lol too bad i want that space turquoise