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Stabilized turquoise is real natural turquoise. They use chemicals to impregnate and fill the spaces in the stone. Making it more stable so that one can use it. Very little of hard untreated turquoise comes from a mine.

+camille sylvester Thanks!

The smoke and the plastic smell will tell you it is stabilized. If it lights on fire it's plastic. Popping can happen with natural but there should be no or very little smoke.

@@youtubechannelaccount5533 I thought stones can catch fire too. Some of them at least. No?

@@jackthebeenstock2852 oh ya, stones mostly impregnated with epoxy (plastic) will light up like a torch.

I'm retired now so I do not. But if you would like jewellery made out of Magpie gemstones turquoise then head over to the website or better yet the Facebook group

they use some stuff (don't know what) to extend their lightfastness or something

Rosa dure We can try but it's very hard through pictures. Send us an email, the email link is on our website magpiegemstones . com

Not without doing some damage. I can usually make an educated guess though.

sleeping beauty arzona turquiose is beautiful. Its like a sea color bluish green with light brown vains. Its expensive

@@adammir8235 I heard now they can make "turquoise" with clay.

Sure, check this out www.magpiegemstones.com/aboutturquoise.html

+Ayiana04 The way to know what you have is to buy from a reputable dealer. I can tell, under a loop, usually, if something has been dyed or stabilized but that takes experience.

There really isn't. You need to buy from a reputable dealer or directly form the mine.

100% acetone nail polish remover with a q-tip will tell you real qick if it is real or fake and no break!!!

It will take the fake color off if it is indeed fake, which unfortunately does happen quite often to people!!! Just really depends on what you as a person likes to wear for jewelry/or have if it is for collection.

m1a1snm it will tell you if something has been oil dyed. You will not know what stone you have. A lot of turquoise has color added during stabilization and acetone will not detect that. Acetone will really only tell you if you have dye in "something" it will not determine if it is turquoise or not and will not definitively determine even of it is dyed. I've seen people show videos of using that as a way of testing and it's sad because the pieces they are testing that they think are proven to be turquoise I would suggest probably arent.

you set it on fire. Plastic is flammable.

+gtran7 It s detroyed after it is burnt. We aren't usually this rough on our turquoise but this was a demonstration.We used pieces big enough to be seen.

No, it's destroyed unfortunately.

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We are adding some tough material in Oct 2018

Which ones? We tested many. A few seemed to be stabilized with an epoxy type resin.

That would be Gibby - my husband - you can - check out who we are on our about us page at Magpiegemstones (dot) com - youtube won't let me share the link.

High, middle and low-grade turquoise can be stabilized by a number of different methods. they won't let me share links but on my website, on the resources page, there is an article on this topic. Yes, it is real turquoise. China describes man-made turquoise as stabilized but in America, we have different definitions. Stabilized turquoise is always from real turquoise. I'll try sharing the link . . . www.magpiegemstones.com/aboutturquoise.html and www.magpiegemstones.com/turquoisecomparison.html

yay I can add links now

unless it says Natural you don't want it if you are looking for 100% real turquoise, you can test it by using 100% real acetone nail polish remover if ANYTHING comes off in color it isn't real!!! A lot of people try to sell fake Gemstones and semi precious gemstones all the time! it is wrong but unless they are caught why would they stop! :-( It is sad but it is true and they do it everywhere so you just have to get to know your likes and then learn how for yourself unfortunately how to truly determine how to tell real from fake because unfortunately that is the only real way to protect yourself from buying "garbage" or "fake knock offs"! if it is truly real the stone, or gem when they sell it to you somewhere on it will ALWAYS...ALWAYS...ALWAYS...have a N on it for NATURAL! anything else isnt it means they have done something to it!!!

@@m1a1snm what if nothing comes off and it still isn't? and what if it is real and also dyed because it's low grade? I hate those chinese. They make us not trust each other now.

100% Natural Turquoise is very rare. Most Turquoise is stabilized by impregnating it with resin to harden the stone so it can be shaped and used in jewelry. 95% of Turquoise mined is unstable and soft / chalky. Stabilized is still true Turquoise but Must be disclosed as such. Only purchase from a trusted seller or directly from the mine owners. Avoid anything that comes from China 99.9% is fake. Howlite is often dyed blue/ green and sold as Turquoise. Enhanced means dyed and stabilized. Block is Turquoise dust/ powder mixed with resin and pressed into blocks. There’s not very many active mines today. Don’t be fooled by low prices. $10 for a sterling silver ring = Plastic or dyed howlite in a silver colored setting. Ana Jewelry of California is notorious for selling fake/ costume Turquoise Jewelry. Royston, Kingman, Sleeping Beauty, & Durango are known trusted dealers. They have natural, stabilized, enhanced(dyed &stabilized), block. The prices reflect the value. I use Natural and Stabilized Turquoise in my Jewelry and label as such. Natural Turquoise is rarer than Diamond. I wish the market reflected its true value. Other stones similar to Turquoise worth looking into are Variscite, Variquoise, Faustite,& Chalcosiderite.

and besides. Just because one piece is real doesn't make the rest real and just because one isn't doesn't mean the rest aren't either.

Non-destructive methods to take natural turquoise you say? Please do educate us.

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