The bottom line is that this beautiful hard white Gemstone has now become the standard for White Turquoise and right or wrong it is called "White Buffalo Turquoise". As usual, the testing of the material did not come back for months and White Buffalo had become so popular by that time that it's name, White Buffalo Turquoise had become the name of this material and it was set in stone! So today, we must call it White Turquoise or White Buffalo Turquoise in order for consumers to know what we are talking about. So, until someone can prove differently, we are going to call it White Turquoise!Īs soon as they Mined and cut the White Buffalo Turquoise, they took it to the market and it was a hit, people absolutely loved it. It cuts and polishes like turquoise, and IT HAS GEOLOGISTS baffled. Surrounded by in black chert a black rock similar to flint. However White Buffalo Turquoise lies in veins like turquoise. There are critics and competitors who say it isn't turquoise at all. So they unearthed the rare and beautiful treasure. He remembered the White Buffalo Turquoise that he had seen years before. He went to his father Lynn Otteson, who had been scouting and mining Turquoise in the Tonopah area for over 50 years, and asked if he was aware of any White Turquoise in the area. Several years back, Dean Otteson, the owner and miner of the Royston Turquoise Mine had been noticing that there was a market for something white in the Southwest Jewelry market. We can easily understand why the Otteson's named this material "White Buffalo Turquoise" however they do not call it White Turquoise when selling or talking to people and usually simply call it White Buffalo. We, John and Dillon Hartman have personally examined a specimen of White Buffalo with a seam of mid-colored blue Turquoise running through the rock which is located in Tonopah, Nevada. The name "White Buffalo Turquoise" was given to this rock from the Otteson's who are very experience in mining Turquoise and have been doing so for generations of well over 50 years. Although they call White Buffalo Turquoise, it is actually not. The most popular Stone being used in Southwest Silver Jewelry is White Buffalo. White Turquoise from the White Buffalo Mine On rare occasion White Turquoise jewelry is made with Chalcociderite (a sister mineral to Turquoise) from the Badger Mine, New Landers Mine, Tortoise Mine, Peacock Mine, Prince Mine, Colorback Mine or one of the other Chalcociderite producing Turquoise mines in Nevada, USA. The rare White Turquoise Jewelry is made with actual White Turquoise from the Dry Creek or Sacred Buffalo mine, the Tortoise Turquoise mine, or the Peacock Turquoise mine. There is now a market for it and minors will not discard it in the future! Most of this "White Turquoise" is actually one of two substances called Howlite and Magnasite. There could be a considerable amount of what we now consider White Turquoise in Arizona and Nevada that is hard, beautiful and of high quality, time will tell. Turquoise Miners of the past hunted for deep rich blues and greens in Turquoise and did not give white or light colored material any consideration. The demand for White Turquoise has come to be fairly recently. So, the Stabilized Turquoise is no longer white, it becomes deeper blue or green when enhanced. It is possible to enhance or stabilize this material to bring it to the hardness needed to make it a viable material suitable for quality Jewelry. The problem is that more often then not, processing this type of material brings out the color in the stone, and it is no longer " White Turquoise". For this reason, it is not hard enough to cut and polish into White Turquoise cabochons that are suitable for use in quality Jewelry. have light to white turquoise material that will test as Turquoise (or to have the elements of Turquoise), however, it is so soft it has the hardness of chalk, nearly "1" on the Mohs Scale. The fact is, many Turquoise Mines in the U.S. For example, Sacred Buffalo (Dry Creek Turquoise) has a very slight tint of clear blue, Tortoise has a slight tint of green and so on. Although it is called White Turquoise, there is a slight tint of blue or green color from the minerals in the rock that actually make the material test as authentic Turquoise. Authentic White Turquoise generally comes from Arizona and Nevada, USA.
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