{"id":575,"date":"2011-08-18T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/?p=575"},"modified":"2011-08-18T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T20:15:15","slug":"turquoise-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/2011\/08\/18\/turquoise-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Turquoise for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apprentice and I have been cutting turquoise for a few months and now have enough to work with and surplus to sell. Natural American mined turquoise has been becoming harder and harder to\u00a0obtain so, when I ran into a friend who had some rough, I bought all I could. Turquoises come and go, one day they are available and the next they are impossible to get. I always have my eye out for turquoise and hunt the Tucson Gem Show for turquoise. I rarely find any turquoise worth buying at the show.\u00a0 As soon a the show left I discovered that my friend had this wonderful robin&#8217;s egg blue\u00a0Morenci rough.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_576\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 222px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/files\/2011\/08\/Morenci-nugget.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-576\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/files\/2011\/08\/Morenci-nugget.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morenci turquoise rough<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u00a0saw the rough\u00a0into slabs, face it off with a flat lap and back it with a thin layer of Devcon and cut it into cabachons. None of these stones are treated in any way,\u00a0 we cut with silicon carbide and diamond belts\u00a0and polish with Zam polishing compound. I have hundreds of carats to sell which I have broken into lots most of which sell for under $120. Go to my website; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patanias.com\">www.patanias.com<\/a> to see many of these lots under the turquoise heading in my portfolio. I also have some Bisbee to sell.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_577\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/files\/2011\/08\/MB5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-577\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/files\/2011\/08\/MB5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lot number MB5\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/files\/2011\/08\/MB5-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/files\/2011\/08\/MB5.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morenci turquoise lot #MB5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sam Patania, 520-795-0086,\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:pataniajewelry@gmail.com\">pataniajewelry@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apprentice and I have been cutting turquoise for a few months and now have enough to work with and surplus to sell. Natural American mined turquoise has been becoming harder and harder to\u00a0obtain so, when I ran into a friend who had some rough, I bought all I could. Turquoises come and go, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patania-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}