Hi Folks! Thanks for all the lovely comments! I haven't really been so excited about any particular stone like this in a long time! I've heard so much about Pantone declaring Turquoise to be the color of the year, and I was disappointed that I didn't get much turquoise rough when I was in Tucson this year, but the Sonora Sunrise is really making up for it! The rich turquoise color of the chrysocolla-brochantite is so stunning next to the brilliant brick red orange of the cuprite! What I really like is that the colors almost seem SUPERnatural, and yet this material is totally natural and untreated! 90% of the turquoise out there is stabilized or treated in some way, so to find such a dramatically beautiful gemstone material as this, that has natural colors and is strong enough to not need any kind of treatment, is really a special find!
I have used most of the rest of the 4 pound chunk that I've been working on making these larger beads, 
but I have been successful in finding a good source to get additional rough, so I JUST bought another 14 pounds of this phenomenal rough and I promise that I will also make some smaller bead pendants and some cabs that are less expensive.
I REALLY like this piece that I sold this week to a collector and jewelry designer in Scotland. It's a large tongue shape to be set in jewelry (no holes) 
and I'm quite fond of this little inverted kite shaped pendant bead that is in my eBay store...
Once I get the extra rough I'll cut up some cabochons and share pics of those! I do have a few cabs in the store and trust me, with 14 pounds of this juicy stuff on the way, I promise there will be more. Here's one of the cabs that is already up, a high dome teardrop
and sometimes the cuprite has some wonderful smaller patterns within the rich orange red color, as this teardrop bead shows..
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