The white turquoise, in the gemstone profession also calls the howlite, its decency's degree is higher. The turquoise is the high quality jade material, in country Qing synonym is called the heaven gem, regards as the propitious happy halidom, only then emperor and emperor’s mother's official headgear can use the turquoise to inlay the roof ornament. The turquoise take the sky blue porcelain pine, just likes the glazing the chinaware as most superior. If has the anomalous iron wire, then its quality was bad. The howlite value compared with blue, the green must be low.

The howlite, is a kind of semi precious gem material quality. It is “turquoise” family's member, its color is white, gray , in the white background, the distribution has the anomalous silver arteries grain and mottling. gloss is natural lardaceous gloss , whiter the bottom is, the more obvious above pessimistic trace is, the more attractive distribution is, the overall glossiness is higher,is the better.


Howlite, in its natural state, is a soft, opaque snowy white semi-precious gemstone with pastel gray streaks.Howlite is commonly used to make decorative objects such as small carvings or howlite jewelry components. Because of its porous texture, howlite can be easily dyed to imitate other minerals, especially turquoise because of the superficial similarity of the veining patterns. The dyed howlite s marketed as turquenite. Howlite is also sold in its natural state, sometimes under the misleading trade names of "white turquoise" or the derived name "white buffalo stone".