THE GOLDEN GLOBES

Turquoise is incredibly popular at the moment and last night at the golden globes Alyssa Milano and Salma Hayek were spotted sporting some amazing turquoise earrings!!

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, and is measured as 6 on the mohs scale of hardness.

The substance has been known by many names, but the word turquoise, which dates to the 16th century, is derived from an Old French word for “Turkish”, because the mineral was first brought to Europe from Turkey, from the mines in historical Khorasan Province of Iran.The Iranians named it “phirouza”.

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