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China is a famous producer of turquoise in the world, and 70% of turquoise is produced in China, which is one of the main producers of turquoise. So what are the main producing areas of turquoise in China? What are their characteristics?
China turquoise mainly comes from Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Among them, the turquoise production in Hubei is the largest, accounting for about 70% of the domestic production.
Shiyan City, Hubei Province is the largest turquoise producing area in the world, which was called Xiangyang Dianzi or Jingzhou Stone in ancient times. Known as the "Hometown of Oriental Turquoise", there are mainly three producing areas: Yishui, Yunxi and Zhushan, and each producing area has several mines.
Generally speaking, the turquoise produced in Hubei is pure and delicate. The shape is kidney-shaped, grape-shaped, generally the size of walnut or apple, with few large pieces; Rich in color, mostly sky blue, green, gray blue, pink blue, pink green and so on. Among them, sky blue turquoise is the top grade, which is extremely rare.
Is it really bad to analyze Anhui materials below? Today, Shi turquoise Xiao Wang mainly talks about the advantages of Anhui materials.
Players who have been exposed to turquoise in their early years should know that Maanshan materials were exported to the United States in large quantities as iron slag, and were made into exquisite turquoise jewelry by jewelry companies with unique ion replacement technology to replace the sleeping beauty mine turquoise in Arizona. This is the source of a large number of sleeping beauty mines on the market. We will know the annual output of Sleeping Beauty Mine.
Although the sandy geology in Ma 'anshan and Tongling areas is not as fine as that in Shiyan, Hubei Province, the high-quality minerals contain crystal structure, and the surface porcelain and luster can reach the level of glaze, which is different from the gelatinous or waxy luster of ordinary high porcelain materials (instead of injecting glue and waxing, words are used to describe the difference between surface luster and porcelain glaze, and the surface will feel hazy and dirty). What I am talking about here is the result after playing. The difference between the final effect after polishing and playing is certain for senior players. In addition, the surface of some high-grade turquoise can have a slightly transparent effect besides porcelain feeling.
Tongling seed materials, in particular, are in fact as famous as Yishui Blue, Baoxia Blue and Zhushan Turquoise, even worse. There are too many words to judge turquoise. Generally speaking, from the aspects of porcelain, color, impurities, etc., we can't judge the quality by the mine mouth.
Turquoise in Xinjiang is produced in Hami county and located in carbonaceous siliceous rocks at the bottom of CAMBRIAN in Tianshan Mountain. People call the turquoise in Xinjiang "Hexi Dianzi". The turquoise produced is irregular in shape, mainly green or yellowish in color, and its texture is far less than that of turquoise produced in Hubei and Shaanxi.
In addition, turquoise is also found in Henan, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Qinghai and other places, but the scale and output are too small to be produced on a large scale and it is difficult to form a valuable supply place for turquoise raw materials.