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Sterling Silver Jewelry

We at The Turquoise Mine offer a wide variety of handcrafted Sterling Silver jewelry. Sterling Silver or jewelry silver is made up of 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper. The 7.5% copper is need to strengthen the silver for the jewelry making process. Fine Silver or .999 is mainly used in bullion.We at The Turquoise Mine also offer some unique bullion coins when we come across them. Please visit www.theturquoisemine.com/category/Fine_Silver_999 for our supply of Fine Silver coins. You will find that most Native American jewelry artists stamp their pieces STERLING to designate it as such. In some jewelry pieces you may see .925, in the United States the silver has to be a minimum of .925% silver in order to be designated Sterling.

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