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50 years of carefully curated genuine coral, turquoise, mother of pearl raw materials & jewelry…

10/08/2026

A fe**sh is an animal carving, usually in stone, which houses the spirit or supernatural qualities of that animal. Usually — but not always.

This wolf is carved from mother of pearl by Bernard Homer Jr. (Zuni), grandson of the famed Zuni carver and silversmith Leekya Deyouse. It carries a power pack of Carico Lake turquoise and Sea of Japan coral with a lepidolite arrow, and its eyes are inlaid jet. Homer also worked in green sea snail, freshwater mussel shell, fluorite, and azurite.

TradeRoots produces and procures Zuni fe**shes and Ramah Navajo carvings in gemstone and shell materials, directly from their source.

See the collection: https://traderoots.com/Fetishes_Carvings/

10/06/2026

Fox turquoise comes from near Lander County, Nevada. Indigenous people found large nuggets in that ground in prehistoric times; the area was first discovered for contemporary mining in the early 1900s, and the mine was developed by Dowell Ward in the 1940s out of the old Cortez claims.

Over the years, the same deposit has been marketed under four names — Fox, White Horse, Green Tree, and Smith. The stone runs a soft sky blue, sometimes with a subtle water-marked matrix, through blue-green to green, at a hardness of 4.5.
Fox is one of the Nevada mines we carry alongside Carico Lake, Blue Gem, Pilot Mountain, Damale, Crescent Valley, and Number 8 — more Nevada turquoise, from more named mines, than almost anyone.

See what’s currently available: https://traderoots.com/Turquoise/Turquoise_Mines/Fox_Turquoise/

09/30/2026

Cripple Creek turquoise comes from Teller County, Colorado — found as a byproduct of one of the richest gold camps in American history, a district discovered in 1891 by a cowboy named Bob Womack. The stone runs light to dark blue with brown matrix — more rarely, a golden limonite matrix to blue-green — and at up to 6 on the Mohs scale it's hard enough that its best use is inlay and cabbing.

It's also one of only a few domestic turquoise mines still active today.

See the collection: https://traderoots.com/Turquoise/Turquoise_Mines/Cripple_Creek_Turquoise/

09/26/2026

Genuine red Mediterranean coral, set in heavy-gauge sterling silver — bracelets by Albert Jake (Ramah Navajo) and Jeanette Dale, rings by Verdy Jake of the Smith Lake area of New Mexico. Natural coral, hand-selected for color and quality; many pieces one of a kind.

Shop coral jewelry: https://traderoots.com/Coral/Coral_Jewelry/

09/24/2026

Mother of pearl — the iridescent inner layer of the shell — has been inlaid into ornament since ancient times: jewelry, knife and weapon handles, instrument fretboards. TradeRoots carries pearl shell harvested from Philippine beds using ecological practices, alongside abalone, green snail, and turquoise cut for inlay work.

For inlayers of every kind, direct from the source.

Explore pearl shell: https://traderoots.com/Pearl_Shell/

09/23/2026

Number 8 turquoise comes from Nevada's Lynn mining district, north of Carlin — a gold and copper operation where turquoise was worked from the 1930s into the early 1950s. In 1954, bulldozer work uncovered one of the largest pieces of turquoise and matrix in the modern world: 33 inches long and 150 pounds after processing.

Number 8 is prized for its black, golden-red, and brown spiderweb matrix over soft blue to blue-green stone. The deposit is depleted — what remains is collector's material.

See the collection: https://traderoots.com/Turquoise/Turquoise_Mines/Number_Eight_Turquoise/

09/19/2026

Turquoise beads cut from American mines like Sleeping Beauty (pictured) in rondells, nuggets, and chips, ready to string. Many of these mines have been closed for decades; beads cut from their stone are rare, and getting rarer.

For jewelers, beaders, and designers, direct from the source.

Shop turquoise beads: https://traderoots.com/Turquoise/Turquoise_Beads/

09/18/2026

Natural red Mediterranean coral, cut into cabochons ready to set — colors running from dark salmon to bright tomato red. Deeply colored red coral grows scarcer every year, which is why the darkest cabs command a premium.

TradeRoots has sourced coral at the source since 1970.

Shop coral cabochons: https://traderoots.com/Coral/Coral_Cabs/

09/15/2026

A cabochon is a stone cut and polished into a smooth dome — no facets, just color and matrix, ready to set. Ours are cut from named American mines: Bisbee, Kingman, Blue Gem, Royston, Sleeping Beauty. Many of those mines closed years ago, which makes the material genuinely rare.

For jewelers: turquoise cabochons ready to set, direct from the source.

Browse the collection: https://traderoots.com/Turquoise/Turquoise_Cabs/

09/12/2026

Nevada has produced some of America's most distinctive turquoise. Blue Gem — worked from about 1934 into the 1970s, as deep as 800 feet underground, one of only two mines we know of where turquoise was found that deep (Bisbee is the other) — runs from sky blue to aqua blue-green, is extremely hard, and takes a high polish. Carico Lake, from a dry lake bed in Lander County, is famous for a clear, iridescent spring green owing to its zinc content.

TradeRoots carries both, along with Fox, Number 8, Pilot Mountain, and more.

Explore the turquoise mines: https://traderoots.com/Turquoise/Turquoise_Mines/

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411 Paseo De Peralta
Santa Fe, NM
87501

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