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Jadeite Imperial Jade jewelry
today is coming from Myanmar
or Burma and twice every year a jewelers dream became true
at the emporium in Yangon with green jade stones for sale
and auctioned, with plenty of jade jewelry and other
gemstones. On display were slabs of various jade color and
sizes, shining star sapphires, luscious golden pearls and
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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
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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 |
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biggest jade market on
earth and they have real
genuine jadeite, see the
pictures below.
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 and
more.
Chinese imperial jade mines |
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Imperial jade pictures
necklace with diamonds |
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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
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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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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.
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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 expensive, maybe not so
expensive for a newly rich Chinese since
Chinese are on a virtual “jade trip” since a
couple of years process were rising
dramatically and all jewelry shops in
Chinese areas such as a Singapore jade shop,
Shanghai jade shop or similar repeating the
mantra, 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
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Jade colors,
Imperial Jade,
Jadeite,
Jade jewelry,
jade
gemstones,
jade
stone. |
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most
popular is green and imperial jade
is defined as emerald green, evenly
colored and translucent somehow a
bit like water fetches the 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.
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Green jade bracelets |
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 about it.
Jadeite is the better
part,
the other is nephrite. 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 breath virtually
life into the stone,
more.
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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.
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,
more
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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