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Green
Jadeite Imperial Jade jewelry
today is coming from Myanmar
or Burma and twice per year a jewelers dream becomes true at
the emporium in Yangon with green jade stones for sale and
auctioned, with plenty of jade jewelry and other gemstones.
On display are slabs of various jade color and
sizes, shining star sapphires, luscious golden pearls and rare pigeon’s blood rubies. |
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Rough jade gemstones
blocks ranged from a small 2 kg rock of a remarkable deep
green prized at about US$300,000 to a two-ton boulder of
light green imperial jade lined with dark green veins at a
reserve price of US$180,000.
All kind of related items and jewelry are also available.
Beautiful translucent green jade, bangles in all kind of
jade color shades. Deep green and white rings, sculptures
depicting mythological figures, and marvelous jewelry. Some
elephant of different sizes plus plenty of information on
Myanmar or Burma products is available. Products on display
are overwhelming.
All varieties are
available at the Yangon emporium, such as a
gemstones, stone and rocks fresh from the mines. If
you like blue jade, than Myanmar or Burma is the
wrong address, almost all blue jade comes Latin
America such as Honduras and the countries around.
Aside of carved dragons,
bangles, pendants and other objects are rubies,
sapphires and more, its easy to find the ideal gift.
Imperial Jade jewelry are often defined as Chinese
jade, but there is no jadeite in China anymore,
all this come from today Myanmar or Burma. Rings and
bangles made from gold color jade and bangles are
sold over the counter.
There are all kind of jewelry
and items such as beads, bracelets, ornaments of
carved jadeite and jade sculptures. Want to do some
jade shopping probably the best is to travel to
Yangon Myanmar or Burma and have a look in the shops
at the
Bogyoke Market.
The Yangon Bogyoke Market is the biggest jade market on
earth and they have real
genuine jadeite, see the
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Jade gemstones market prices
vary from a few dollars
for a pendant or a
pretty bangle all the way up
to the
Buddha statue
or other sculpture maybe a
meter high or more for
several thousands dollars.
There are
probably more than 60 shops
offering
different jadeite items. This oriental bazaar is
a real treasure trove.
There
are sculpture and
Buddha statues,
carved landscape scenery,
jewelry, bangles, bracelets,
rings, necklaces, chains and
more. |
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Jade gemstones
Jade Gem
Imperial jade pictures
necklace with diamonds
Jade
Translucency
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A green jade jadeite
gemstone
is
the base material for fine jewelry and other body
decoration, sculptures are made from and in China this
stones have a mystic aura.
The gem color is not only green a jadeite gemstone is
available in almost any color but emerald green with a high
level of translucency or transparency has the highest value.
This are fine
stones and they are processed mainly in China and Myanmar,
there are jade mines in various parts of the world
with deposits of nephrite, jadeite is only mined in Myanmar
or Burma at the northern Kachin State.
This green gemstones fetches prices like rubies and sapphire
and even diamonds when all positive parameter come together such a
transparency, green color, fine texture, no cracks all this
can be very valuable and it is definitely an important
gemstone. Good quality minerals get top rates
especially when they have a great shade, this rocks
are really amazing.
Since plenty of Chinese people
interpret mystic ideas into it, superstition never
dies, prices are rising, but there is still enough
material in northern Myanmar waiting to be mined. Rising prices makes it
lucrative to search for new deposits and they are
found, in the USA, New Zealand and elsewhere, but as
indicated before this are all Nephrite.
A
beautiful jade sculpture
such as a Buddha, dragon
and other mythical sculptures is very decorative in any
home. Its the second most items made from jade after jewelry
is a asset in any home with an exotic and very valuable
touch. Jade sculptures are usually Buddha statues and
mythical figures and gods such as a Hindu god with many
arms. This art creations show the prosperous background of
the owner since some of them could be even more expensive
than the latest Ferrari.
Jade is a tough stone which
comes in various colors. Chinese associate the stone with,
mystic, good, pure and valuable. These values are the right
parameter to express in a home with a beautiful
jade
sculpture, it tells all. This artwork reflects
the owner of the house and naturally statues are also placed
in other environments such as temples.
Probably the most
prominent is the Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai. The statues
where brought to the city by a Buddhist monk; they came from
Myanmar or Burma most raw stones for jadeite carvings made in China come from
Burma and Chinese artist breath virtual
life into the jade sculpture, their craftsmanship of working
with different materials is well known.
Prices are high starting
around $ 1000,- for a 15cm tall Buddha with a good
green color up to $ 50.000,- for a 60cm high
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Typical Jade Buddha statues are,
laughing Buddha statues.
Other are
dragon
sculptures,
elephant statues,
empire
lion statue, jade
horse and other sculptures.
Considering the hundreds of
year old tradition in
China
of smuggling to avoid the
taxes (not only in China) to
the emperors its no wonder
that a majority of Chinese
trade is done by smuggling.
This figurines and
sculptures today are looking
real good and are a sure eye
catcher in every home,
actually must people have no
religious ideas behind as
those items went mainstream
they became decorative
items, also quite expensive
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Chinese imperial jade mines
are
exhausted since several
hundred of years today only
nephrite is available from
China. The only
mines for
beautiful jadeite
are those in Myanmar or Burma, other mines
are producing nephrite which is a lesser
quality. Actually there are several places
were jade is mined, they all are in in upper
or northern Myanmar and very difficult to
access. The green stone is either legally
purchased in Myanmar or smuggled over the
Chinese border to Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Beijing and so on. Chinese jade items are
made from of this smuggled Myanmar Jade.
Actually the Chinese carving has a higher
artistic level than the
Myanmar or Burma arts
and crafts |
Nephrite
Chinese Jade Mine at
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Imperial Jade,
Jadeite,
Jade jewelry,
jade
gemstones,
jade
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Since jade colors
come in a wide
spectrum its quite
popular as body decoration for different
purposes and various parts of the body,
bracelets, bangles, necklaces, rings and
pendants just name it. The best as we know
is green jadeite with great amount of
translucency and when it is coming in a
composition as a great piece of jewelry its
often combined with platinum, white gold and
sometimes silver since this neutral light
shade complements jades supportive, means it
won’t take away the show from the precious
jadeite.
Beside of the
attractive jade colors carvings are also
very popular but its not as easy to find
good carvings with the real excellent color
since that’s rare and can easily become
prohibitive
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expensive, maybe not so
expensive for a newly rich Chinese since
they are on a virtual “jade trip” since a
couple of years prices were rising
dramatically and all jewelry shops in
Chinese areas such as a Singapore jade shop,
Shanghai jade shop or similar repeating, buy now because the green stone is
running out of resources, which is not true
its only told be shop people to do a quick
deal and justify the high price.
There is a lot
of not so nice stuff going on out there.
Since all people always talk about green
jade which is finally the imperial jadeite
it shouldn’t be forgotten that this mineral
comes in many colors, actually in all colors
but the most popular is green and imperial
jade is defined as emerald green, evenly
colored and translucent somehow a bit like
water fetches the
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Singapore jade shop
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Casino Shopping Mall |
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Green
Jade Chains,
Jade Pendants |
highest
prices. This mineral has number 7 on Mohs scale in terms
of hardness, a diamond has 10, so it’s quite
hard but it still can break.
Green Jade
is the preferred color,
plus lavender, purple and white, but most other
colors are available too.
Non translucent
jade bangles start at around $ 10,- at the Bogyoke
Market. Be aware that
Chinese developed a process to make cheap
jade bangles and other jade items look like
very expensive imperial jade by injecting
some kind of chemicals with very high
pressure into the jade stone. That means
when you are shopping for any jewelry for
more than $ 1000,- take a expert with you,
just hire one and let him check because he
know what you don't know. |
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Green jadeite bracelets |
Jadeite
is one of two different minerals
under the name jade, nephrite is the other. Nephrite is
usually what is called Chinese jade and what is also mined
in other countries but the real good stuff is mined in the
northern territories of Myanmar of Burma that is Kachin
State. The mineral there has better properties than nephrite
in terms of hardness, translucency, color and texture. The
thing is most people don’t know these differences. Nephrite is and was
mined in China and other countries on the
globe. Jadeite is only available in Myanmar
or Burma. Chinese people buy the green stone
in Burma, export or smuggle them to China
and once the material reaches China,
usually, Yunnan it becomes Chinese jade. The
part of the Chinese in this chain is they
are very creative and they
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breath virtually
life into the stone.
Because of this, Jadeite has a
higher value than nephrite. Jadeite jade comes in various colors and
transparencies such as lavender, white, green, bluish and
the whole rainbow spectrum in between.
The deep green
variation is the Imperial Jade. The Moh scale ranking is 7,
Nephrite is 6.5 and Diamond is 10.
The best is with translucency, reflective
polished and deep green. This are real jewelry items not
only for fashion, a great bangle with all this positive
properties indicated can fetch a
price from between $ 1000,- to $3000,- or even more. |
Jadeite Stone
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Cheap Bangles
Genuine jadeite
With diamonds |
The problem is there are no real
value parameter as it is with diamonds and other precious
stones, there is plenty space for interpretation and because
of this cheating is often happening. The current situation is that every sales person
tell anything but it is not verifiable it can be or it cant
be. This situation means be very careful when buying
a expensive jade bangle, the bangles pictured at right side
are all over $ 2000,- and more.
On the low end a
cheap
jade bangle
can be purchased in a shop at Yangon Bogyoke Market, the
premier jade market in the world, for as little as $10,- and
more.
The difference is, no translucency and crude colors and
textures, but that is genuine jade. When buying high end jade items
better take a specialist with, they are available, because
he or she know what you don’t know.
All this has a long
history,
Taiwan e.g. was trading Jadeite and
nephrite already up to 4000 years ago. Jade trade
was a thriving business. The items even reached
Southeast Asia already 2000 years ago when the mines
in China were not exhausted. Green jade jadeite from Feng Tian
in east Taiwan was popular and was shipped all over the
region including the Philippines. Items were found
in Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Looking into the mineral
with modern equipment
shows that the chemical composition shows the
origin.
Jade carving products between 500 BC and 500 AD, means
earrings, beads and other show plenty of
similarities in the whole region such two headed
animals.
Excavations showed that
around 3000 BC jade workshop where busy in Feng Tian.
Jade found in the Philippines from around 2000 BC
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Expensive Bangle
Bracelets
Rings
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Since
jadeite jewelry
sale is booming people try to find some standardization to
put certain realistic price tags on the stone. Missing
standard not only affects the sale on auction since there is
no clear evaluation system means a realistic price figure is
difficult to estimate. The price evaluation of Jade is
complicated and done mainly by expert assessment, but often
all this experts have a different definition of the
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same piece of jade. These non transparent factors shy away plenty of
people to buy jade, read
more.
Jade Gemstones
are not so easy to classify such as
Diamonds
e.g. they have a excellent evaluation system since
diamonds single crystal standardization parameter
are more easy to apply. Jade is a polycrystalline
stone means different and more complex. The "6C" are
developed, means color, structure, clarity, cut,
transparency and other identification of so called -
race, water, color, workers and other.
Since there is no
jadeite standard it can be quite difficult to buy
the stones or jewelry, especially with high quality.
It wont matter if buying
a bracelet, a bangle or other items such as hand
carved or a Buddha, the problem of evaluation is
always the same.
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