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Burma Jadeite Jade

March 2nd, 2010

Angie

Burma Jadeite Jade

Jade Soap Rock

$10.50

Jade, found primarily in the metamorphic rocks of Upper Burma, actually refers to two minerals, jadeite and nephrite. Jadeite is highly prized in many cultures and the emerald green of your Soap Rock has the soft, sophisticated lustre of the Imperial Jade. All our soap rocks are extra mild, biodegradable and contain no animal products….

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

$5.63

Taking us from the imperial courts of ancient China to a squalid mine in Burma today, THE STONE OF HEAVEN-now in paperback-reveals for the first time the bizarre true story of Imperial Green Jade, one of the rarest stones in the world, more precious than diamonds, coveted for its life-extending powers and its aphrodisiac properties as well as for its astonishing beauty-a stone that has shaped the …

How The Formation Of Fine Jade

How the formation of fine jade

Jade is customary, also known as Myanmar jade, jadeite produced in Burma, Japan, the Soviet Union, Mexico, California, Deng Jun births jadeite, but quality and output is far less than Myanmar.

Area north of Myitkyina in Myanmar, the largest emerald deposit reserves, a very early stage jade mining china gemstone wholesaler, supplies around the world. So people a long time before Burma produced only know jade, jadeite therefore as a synonym for Myanmar jade, and jadeite is the scientific name, and the Burmese jade is the expert jargon.

Jade is how it formed? There are many magical folk legend; geologist’ve been referring to it as a mystery, it has been considered as emerald and diamond, are deep in the crust several thousand degree heat and high pressure conditions, crystal formation, it is not true; the United States many Geophysicists have done a lot of simulation experiments in the laboratory, combined with jade deposits found around the world, the actual situation, they believe that jade is not formed under high temperature conditions, but in the ─ under the condition of high pressure low temperature Deteriorating causes.

The Government of Myanmar jade auction held every year, attracted many buyers.

Tohoku University, Professor Ichiro Sunagawa, “saying the stones” (1983) was published a book, more specifically pointed out that the jade was 10 000 at atmospheric pressure and low temperature (200-300oC) formed. We know china Jewelry wholesale to the deep Earth from the surface, The depth of the more higher the temperature, the greater the pressure. But Jade is under high pressure at low temperature crystallization, of course, impossible in the deeper part, then the pressure really come from?

This pressure is due to crustal movements caused by the formation of extrusion pressure, has now been confirmed that the distribution where there are emerald deposits in the region, are more intense crustal movement zone.

There is another factor: the formation of any place where jade found both sodium feldspar igneous intrusion (in ─ basic rock). The chemical composition of albite as NaAlSi3O8, it can be speculated china Jewelry wholesale ─ Jade is in the low temperature and high pressure conditions, sodium feldspar from the silicon to the role of the rock formed.