Chrysocolla 6mm Star Cut Coin - 15-16 Inch Love Sonoran Mountain Turquoise is a

Sonoran Mountain Turquoise is a high-quality turquoise variety mined in Sonora

light gray or black

and it is the official birthstone of that month

Garnet was used as far back as the Bronze Age

Wild Horse was first found in the mid-90's near a remote copper mining city

Chrysocolla 6mm Star Cut Coin - 15-16 Inch Love Sonoran Mountain Turquoise is aChrysocolla, a hydrous copper silicate, is often mistaken for turquoise due to its rich blues and blue to greens. It often also occurs with colors of rust, copper, black, white and reddish brown in speckles, veins and brecciated patterns. It is a very soft stone typically found near copper deposits. Chrysocolla was first described by Theosphrastus, a Greek philosopher and botanist who also named the stone, in 315 BCE.