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THE JADE ENIGMA - GIA Jade is one of the most misunderstood gemstones It is actzlally two separate materials: jadeite and nephrite Together, these materials have more simulants than most other gems Thus, it is important to know the various simulants, and to understand how to separate them from jade
Expanded Sources for Jade in Middle America Geological reconnaissance has expanded the known jade-bearing area at least six-fold The first deposits examined are at an elevation of ~1,750 meters, 13 kilometers north of the limits of detailed geological mapping, on Cerro Bandera Perdida (see FIGURE 1)
Jade_GSHK - geolsoc. org. hk A lot of nicknames misrepresent jade For example: mountain jade, new jade, olive jade, white jade, snow jade, African jade, Indian jade, Malaysian jade, Suzhou jade, etc
CHINESE JADE: MAKING THE PAST SERVE THE PRESENT looking at how jade culture was appropriated in the Qing dynasty, the territorial precursor to modern China, and finally looking how jade culture is appropriated by contemporary China to meet its nationalistic, territorial, and patriotic goals of the 21st century
The West-East Jade Transmission and the Formation of Chinese From the perspective of the big tradition, around 8,000 to 4,000 years ago, the main directional movements of jade culture can be simply summarized into two patterns: North-South Jade Transmission and West-East Jade Transmission
California jade : a collection of reprints - Internet Archive Many dense, fine-grained, green-colored rocks have mistakenly been called jade; but, from a gemological point of view, jade is a name given to the massive, gem-quality varieties of the two rock-forming minerals nephrite and jadeite
Jade forms from Ancient China - GIA Not only were the Chinese carving jade before the fall of Troy (ap- proximately 1184 B C ), but they were also using some of the same motifs then that they use now