Burmese Jade Jadeite Burma Jade

Burmese jade is always jadeite and that's the better material for exquisite jade carving and other jewelry. There are two variants this are jadeite and nephrite.

Chinese jade is mostly nephrite unless its smuggled or officially imported from Myanmar and just called Chinese jade once it's in the country but finally nobody cares anyway where the mineral is coming from, the people want beautiful jewelry plus maybe a jade Buddha and other green items.

Jadeite has a wide spectrum of jade colors; most popular are green white and lavender, the more transparent the stone jade is the higher the value. Jade in China is very popular since the the stone has a mythic aura since around two thousand years and maybe more.

Stores selling genuine Burmese jade are many in Yangon Myanmar at the Bogyoke market, the premier bazaar in the country and a fabulous shopping mall for all kind of precious stones, jewelry, handicrafts, artworks, Buddha items such as "paintings" and statues, antiques and plenty of other item. The Bogyoke Aung

San Market has probably the highest density of jade stores of any place worldwide.

Burma jade is mined in the north before the high mountains which are extending from the Tibetan Himalayas, the mining areas are around Mogaung and other dykes in Kachin state. Jade boulders of good quality Burmese jadeite are sometimes up to around fifty meters below ground and several hundred tons heavy, it's plenty of jade in Burma but the real good one is difficult to find since how to look into the stone before purchasing.

Usually they cut boulders into pieces to get an idea but it's still vague and not only one jade buyer got a unpleasant surprise after buying the raw jadeite stones sometimes even almost "blind" at the Emporium in Rangoon.

Jade shops selling creative jade jewelry

and this is not only in Burma. Probably the most sophisticated jade jewelry creations are done in China. They work since several thousand years with jade, they know. Sometimes statues and sculptured, figurines etc. made in China look rather like "Kitsch" to much of fairy tale inspired. But they have different tastes and values.

Now focusing in jade items, it is always amazing to see how people are after a jade pendant, preferable with a Buddha carving. A jade ring is also not so bad, often visible on the fingers of the guys, they interpret some curative and protective mystic power into it. Jade in Burma is used for all kind of body decoration, sometimes it gets real expensive. A excellent jade bangle with a light and dark green texture and a high amount of translucency goes easily for around 2-3 thousand dollars at the Bogyoke Aung San Market in Rangoon.

The variants and volume of different green jadeite items is overwhelming and the demand is ever growing in particular since

Chinese people get more money into the pocket and they are also willing to spend it, one item they spend is jadeite.

Burmese jadeite

is sometimes more valuable than other precious stones such as Myanmar Ruby or even diamonds because high grade jadeite is even more rare, especially in imperial green or maybe in black as this pendant at right side. Almost everyone can afford to buy jade since the price range is very wide there are genuine jade bangles for around $ 7,- and at another store for $ 3000,- its amazing. One of the problems with jade items is there are no defining parameter as with diamonds e.g. everyone is "cooking his own soup". Which automatically leads to cheating especially if someone is not an expert.

Mention jade and ideas of a mystic, almost sacred stones with beautiful colorful pop in our mind. Some associate it with body decoration others with mysticism.

Raw jadeite is basically a rock or boulder extracted down to around 50m, it is used to create beautiful jewelry and other items such as Jade Buddha, Pendants, Rings, Bangles, Necklaces and more. Extracted from the earth by mining and with very different levels of value, here are also fake jadeite items since everywhere where there is quick cash to be made the crooks are not far away.

Interestingly jade is seldom used together with other materials such as gold or silver. There are item with metal around but relatively seldom, the green stone look attractive by itself no need to supportive materials. Sometimes Buddha statues are decorated with ruby and gold dust.

Jade colors

come in a wide spectrum although this gemstone looks quite pretty in every color. Some Chinese interpret healing powers and protective properties into the stone, others just use it as body decoration, others think as an investment which could be a good idea with jadeite because reasonable resources in terms of quality and quantity are limited almost uniquely to northern Burma. Considering some billion people across the border who like jade, there is a huge market. Prices do not fluctuate much, actually they only move upwards in recent years and this will be continuing. As with other gemstones its rarity, texture, jade colors and translucency which mineral is cut, carved and polished mostly by Chinese experts.

Before buying jade in the higher price range have the pieces of desire checked by an independent lab since there is too much cheating going any. They put the stones into acid, treat them with extreme heat and pressure and fill raisins into to eliminate crack and so on. The treated piece looks great for about 2-3 years and will deteriorate after the genuine piece not.

In the beginning of 2011 a Chinese state enterprise bought a huge load of jadeite boulders for several hundred millions of dollars, they cut and carve them in China. Since Burma is not used to absorb such a huge dollar sum the currency market in Rangoon went crazy and finally the local currency, the Kyat, went up almost 30% compared to the dollar.

The result was their marine products and other exports became to expensive and no one wanted to buy at that prices.

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