Turquoise beads are extremely versatile; they can be beaded alone or with different metals. A good wholesaler to get wholesale turquoise beads from is iBead. They supply turquoise cylinder, nuggets, and tube beads. Their inventory is huge. Shyian Turquoise Arts & Crafts Factory has five pages of wholesale turquoise beads for your browsing and buying pleasure. They only sell wholesale. The majority of their turquoise comes in green, they get a little less of the blue-green, and they rarely get blue. The majority of their turquoise has a black matrix. They have turquoise cabochon and rough turquoise.
Lightinthebox.com supplies multicolored elliptical turquoise beads, blue elliptical, white round, blue column, irregular green, and so on. They show five pages for wholesale turquoise beads. When you are a registered member they dropship without charging extra. TradeKey is a directory of importer and exporters. They have three pages of suppliers of wholesale turquoise beads.
Southwest Turquoise (http://www.theturquoisechick.com/) has been in business since 1995. The are located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The minimum wholesale order is $500.00. They supply Sleeping Beauty, Kingman, and Mexican turquoise. ArizonaTraders.net carries sleeping Beauty, Chinese, and Nevada, plus stabilized, enhanced, and natural turquoise. They do sell wholesale to the general public. Mr. Bead stocks green, blue, pink, rondell, yellow and other wholesale turquoise beads. Their discounts go from 10% to 40%. They get their turquoise beads directly from the Chinese Market In Hong Kong and live there. To find them on E-bay look for MrBead-uk and betterbead.