These are lovely Hubei turquoise dangle earrings feature the amazing poly-chromatic look of "Dragon Scale" turquoise. Blue and brown with a cool fade from side to side and matched color on both cabochons. Awesome!! The stamped edge Navajo handmade sterling silver earrings are about one inch in length and 3/4 inches wide. At only 6.2 grams per earring they should look great and be comfortable to wear for most people. They have sterling silver French style ear wires which will add to the comfort of wearing and ease of movement for these great earrings. "Dragon Scale" turquoise comes from the Hubei district so is Hubei turquoise. The veins of turquoise in Hubei can be quite thick. The turquoise at the top of the vein has been stained by millions of years of mineralization coming from water seeping through the ground above. The stain typically goes only about 1/4 inch into the turquoise vein, after that it just looks like turquoise either blue or green. But the top of the vein, where this lovely oval stone originated, does show that mineralization. The Chinese often refer to a vein of turquoise as a sleeping dragon. Hence, the turquoise from the outside of the sleeping dragon is Dragon Scale. Now you know...the rest of the story.
