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Kyle Lee-Anderson Carico Lake Turquoise Heavy stamped repousse sterling<br>bracelet. Absolutely amazing piece of workmanship and stone, heavy 10 gauge<br>sterling silver heavily worked with precision with the finest natural high grade<br>Carico Lake turquoise stone. Fits up to a 6.75" wrist, 1" gap, 1 7/8" wide in<br>center 150.5 grams. The stone is 30mm (1 3/16" tall x 22mm 1 1/16" wide at<br>widest point.<br><br>Kyle Lee-Anderson (twin brother of Trent Lee-Anderson) was born in Gallup, New<br>Mexico on January 12, 1993. At a young age Kyle along with his brothers Trent<br>and Wyatt began working on jewelry with their father Allison (Snowhawk) Lee, a<br>talented well-known silversmith.<br><br>On Kyle’s mothers side, his great grandfather and great grandmother worked on<br>jewelry, passing along techniques through the generations – making him and his<br>brothers 4th generation silversmiths. Kyle has become skilled at making Navajo<br>pearls and fluted design beadwork from single strand necklaces to traditional<br>squash blossoms. He has been perfecting other types of jewelry like pendants,<br>earrings, and bolo ties. Kyle likes to use natural turquoise like Number Eight,<br>Morenci, Egyptian, Blue Gem, Kingman, and Carico Lake in his work.<br><br>Kyle’s inspirations come from his role models that include: Charles Loloma,<br>Raymond & Lee Yazzie, Vernon Haskie, Ira & Gary Custer, Aaron Anderson, Jennifer<br>Curtis, Ray Tracey, Herbert Taylor, Kenneth Johnson and Cody Sanderson. Kyle’s<br>hobbies include skateboarding, hiking, fishing, and playing the piano.<br><br>The Carico Lake Turquoise is located South of Battle Mountain in Lander County,<br>Nevada USA. This Turquoise Mine produces Turquoise in multiple shades of blues<br>to beautiful greens. Carico Lake Turquoise has become very popular and highly<br>collectible in recent years for its beautiful shades of a spring colored lime<br>green running through a sea of light sky blue with golden brown spiderweb<br>matrix.<br><br>The Carico Lake Turquoise Mine produces beautiful blue Turquoise but is most<br>known for its spectacular shades of lime green colored gemstones. This fabulous<br>lime green coloration is actually caused by a close relative of Turquoise<br>mineral called faustite, the combination of faustite and zinc associated with<br>the Turquoise creates one of the most beautiful coloration effects in American<br>Turquoise that has ever occurred in nature. The Carico Lake Turquoise Mine also<br>produces very rare psuedomorph clams that have been fossilized with Turquoise -<br>this Turquoise is very rare and very expensive.<br><br>The Carico Lake Turquoise Mine got its name from its unique location, in ancient<br>years there was a lake that has since dried, hence "Carico Lake." Mining is very<br>limited these days which makes the supply of this material limited. Due to the<br>great demand for Carico Lake Turquoise, it has become one of the most valuable<br>types of American Turquoise and the investment value of this Turquoise is great.<br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if<br>the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is<br>shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
