2013 0618 Daniel Smith Factory Tour

We were given many samples. The dots on cards are concentrated pigments that can be used to paint a small test swatch.

minerals and the pigments made from them: Tigers Eye genuine

Sleeping Beauty turquoise: we were given a small bead of the stone. The color refers to the Sleeping Beauty mine from which this rock came. They have about a 10 year supply left and then it will be gone. Rock from this mine produces pigment that is different from other turquoises.

minerals and the pigments made from them:Nat. Kingmean green turquoise genuine, turquoise genuine, sicklerite

minerals and the pigments made from them: Bloodstone genuine, piemontite genuine, bronzite genuine

minerals and the pigments made from them: black tourmaline in center

Chief Chemist Ron Harmon talks about the pigments.

a large chunk of lapis lazuli in my lap

John Cogleyis now the owner. Daniel Smith is retired and living in another state.