Turquoise: prices soaring

Today, the turquoise of the collection market is hot, and not only is the price all the way brighter, but over-the-top imitations and optimisation of goods are even more “squandering for fascinating eyes”.

The reporter visited the major antique markets in the city. There are numerous related products labeled as turquoise, and there are various types of bracelets, carved pieces, and original stones. Many shops that do not have turquoise as the main item are also selling some loose beads. In the ancient city of Nankai District, the owner of the Jingyi Shizui said that several of the display cabinets originally displayed in other gemstones were made of turquoise to “make way”, and the most popular ceramics with a high degree of color and bright turquoise were placed. In the obvious position in the shop, "A lot of customers are coming from the pure natural turquoise mine."

The reporter asked a number of shops to find that the price of turquoise was calculated in grams, ranging from a few tens of yuan per gram to a few hundred yuan and a thousand dollars. According to the price of 220 yuan per gram given by a merchant, a barrel bead with a diameter of about 1.5 cm, a height of about 2.7 cm and a weight of 11.1 grams is priced at nearly 2,500 yuan.

Has the price of turquoise been so high? A merchant at Liyuantou opened a shop and said, “When I just started my wenwan trip, I asked a business partner to take turquoise. He tossed me a big piece. I asked how to count the money. He said, 'This thing is too cheap. No money can be taken, but take it away.” Geologist Li Zhaojiang, a professor at Tianjin Normal University, has long studied various types of gemstones. He took out a small piece of turquoise stone that he had bought at Shenyang Road five or six years ago. , said: "At that time as long as more than a dozen yuan this piece, now the price is estimated to reach two or three hundred yuan a gram. In just a few years, the turquoise price rose twenty or thirty times."