Kyle Lee-Anderson Carico Lake Turquoise Heavy stamped repousse sterling bracelet. Absolutely amazing piece of workmanship and stone, heavy 10 gauge sterling silver heavily worked with precision with the finest natural high grade Carico Lake turquoise stone. Fits up to a 6.75" wrist, 1" gap, 1 7/8" wide in center 150.5 grams. The stone is 30mm (1 3/16" tall x 22mm 1 1/16" wide at widest point.

Kyle Lee-Anderson (twin brother of Trent Lee-Anderson) was born in Gallup, New Mexico on January 12, 1993. At a young age Kyle along with his brothers Trent and Wyatt began working on jewelry with their father Allison (Snowhawk) Lee, a talented well-known silversmith.

On Kyle’s mothers side, his great grandfather and great grandmother worked on jewelry, passing along techniques through the generations – making him and his brothers 4th generation silversmiths. Kyle has become skilled at making Navajo pearls and fluted design beadwork from single strand necklaces to traditional squash blossoms. He has been perfecting other types of jewelry like pendants, earrings, and bolo ties. Kyle likes to use natural turquoise like Number Eight, Morenci, Egyptian, Blue Gem, Kingman, and Carico Lake in his work.

Kyle’s inspirations come from his role models that include: Charles Loloma, Raymond & Lee Yazzie, Vernon Haskie, Ira & Gary Custer, Aaron Anderson, Jennifer Curtis, Ray Tracey, Herbert Taylor, Kenneth Johnson and Cody Sanderson. Kyle’s hobbies include skateboarding, hiking, fishing, and playing the piano.

The Carico Lake Turquoise is located South of Battle Mountain in Lander County, Nevada USA. This Turquoise Mine produces Turquoise in multiple shades of blues to beautiful greens. Carico Lake Turquoise has become very popular and highly collectible in recent years for its beautiful shades of a spring colored lime green running through a sea of light sky blue with golden brown spiderweb matrix.

The Carico Lake Turquoise Mine produces beautiful blue Turquoise but is most known for its spectacular shades of lime green colored gemstones. This fabulous lime green coloration is actually caused by a close relative of Turquoise mineral called faustite, the combination of faustite and zinc associated with the Turquoise creates one of the most beautiful coloration effects in American Turquoise that has ever occurred in nature. The Carico Lake Turquoise Mine also produces very rare psuedomorph clams that have been fossilized with Turquoise - this Turquoise is very rare and very expensive.

The Carico Lake Turquoise Mine got its name from its unique location, in ancient years there was a lake that has since dried, hence "Carico Lake." Mining is very limited these days which makes the supply of this material limited. Due to the great demand for Carico Lake Turquoise, it has become one of the most valuable types of American Turquoise and the investment value of this Turquoise is great.

All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin) silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.