Impressive Vintage Navajo Sterling Silver Cerrillos Turquoise Ringsz6.5

This is a tremendous Navajo Native American jewelry very large silver ring being one of the finest and biggest Cerrillos turquoise rings we have ever collected. The stone is natural and absolutely monumental, measuring a gargantuan 1½ X19mm Huge vintage Navajo sterling silver ring set with. Face of the ring is 1½ by 19mm The shank is hand hammered and cold chisel split.

No marks but tested as sterling silver great addition to your collection?? Considered to be the earliest mining district in the country, the Cerrillos mine is just south of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico.

Cerrillos Turquoise is considered to be rare today, can be found in almost every color due, and can be a good high-grade stone. Pueblo Indians worked the mine for centuries before the Spanish arrived. Over two hundred dig sites have been located. One area is located on Turquoise Hill and includes the Tiffany and Castilian mines. The second area is Mount Chalchihuitl. Cerrillos was the most extensively mined of the prehistoric sites, and is the largest prehistoric mine known in North America.

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