Sleeping Beauty turquoise has an intense and uniform blue that has conquered crowds around the world. This beautiful genuine turquoise comes in nugget form with a light white matrix, sometimes with small amounts of quartz or pyrite. Sleeping Beauty turquoise is one of the most valued varieties of the gemstone due to the fact that is has no matrix and is a very clean stone. Located in Globe, AZ, the Sleeping Beauty turquoise mine is one of the most well known producers of turquoise in the world, producing everything from low grade white chalk to a hard, sky blue material with clarity that has made it famous in European markets where they prefer turquoise with no matrix. The Sleeping Beauty turquoise mine was named after the mountain range where it is located, which from a distance is said to resemble a sleeping woman with her arms crossed.