Large Celtic Cross with 12mm Persian Green Copper Turquoise Gemstone on Rolo Chain

Large Celtic Cross with 12mm Persian Green Copper Turquoise Gemstone on Rolo Chain

Iran, coming on the heels of the Iran-Iraq war, has been mired in high unemployment and increasing poverty for decades, driven - at least in part - by western economic sanctions. And their belligerent government's insistence upon the development of nuclear technology continues to hurt Iran's people. From Iran we use spectacular Persian Copper Turquoise. The distinctive natural copper veining in our Persian Turquoise assures that each stone is entirely unique - distinct from any other stone in existence. Our Persian Copper Blue, Copper Green, and Copper Purple Turquoise comes from the most ancient Turquoise mines in the world. It has been mined continuously for over 6,000 years in the mountainous region of Neyshabur, and is considered the world's finest turquoise. Persian Turquoise is called the Jewel of the Orient. We believe that using beautiful stones from Iran helps assure the employment of miners, improve families' lives, and does some small thing to make war less likely and peace more so.