The silent stones all have stories to tell...

Imagine a malachite dragon rising out of a sea of chrysocolla. (We found this dragon in a block of copper ore from the Ray mine, near Globe, Arizona.) Here's a gallery of other stones made into jewelry and available in the Sun City Vistoso Gift Shop. Because these stones were created by nature, and the jewelry crafted by hand, each piece is unique and one-of-a-kind. Art you can wear.

Shattuckite from Ajo, Arizona

The patches of blue in this pendant are the rare copper mineral, Shattuckite, surrounded by chrysocolla and other minerals in the copper family of gemstones. Shattuckite was named for the Shatuck Mine in Bisbee, Arizona, where it was first found. The beads in the necklace are blue-green opal from Peru and lapis lazuli.



Arizona Petrified Wood

Some of the most colorful petrified wood in the world is found here in Arizona. This necklace features beads of brightly colored petrified wood and a pendant of "picture wood." Picture wood is rare, and this piece was dug on a ranch near St. Johns back in the 1940s.



Turquoise from Kingman, Arizona

This silver lizard watches over a piece of Kingman turquoise. The lizard received its wrinkles by surviving an ancient jewelry process called reticulation.



Biggs Picture Jasper

Some of the best picture jasper in the world came from Biggs, Oregon, where a new highway was being blasted through a ledge. This stone came from that historic site, which produced only a small amount of material, which is famous for its blue skies and rolling hills.

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