JADE

Jade, the toughest gem material known to mankind, occurs as Nephrite & Jadeite. I should know, I break rocks for a living (no, not a prisoner): I'm a geologist and martial artist. Jade is so tough that a rounded cobble or boulder of jade will resist breaking no matter how many times you strike it with a sledge. And be careful, there are a lot of jade look-a-likes sold by rock shops that is nothing more than serpentinite - a soft mineral that is weakly magnetic.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Jade - An Extraordinary Gemstone

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 Sample of jade shows evidence of extreme deformation required to produce jade. Numerous fractures in the original rock  allowed fluids t...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Jade - how to find this extraordinary gemstone.

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Jade is the gemologist's term for two different mineral species: nephrite and jadeite . These two minerals are nearly impossible to dis...
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