Jade: There are two types of minerals

Jade: There are two types of minerals

Jade is known in China for millennia. This is actually the "nephritis." The Spaniards had brought the new world and called "piedra de hijada," which became "jade" in French.

In the 19th century, it was found that the mineral came from China was different from that from the New World. The Central America was called "jadeite." Therefore, jade is a name that covers the nephrite and jadeite.

Nephrite and jadeite are hard stones, jadeite's a little more.

Today it is jadeite jade that is considered the real jade because its colors are green in more vivid than nephrite and is more translucent.

Beliefs about the jadeite and nephrite

In China, nephritis covered some dead in their graves to keep them and give them immortality.

In Central America, the Olmecs, Mayas and Toltec’s carved jadeite or making masks.

Long, jade was a symbol of love and virtue. It was also an outward sign of social status.

Many people believed that jade cure kidney disease, and indeed the word "nephrite" comes from the Greek "nephros" which means "kidney".

Jade-producing countries

Jadeite jade is produced in Myanmar. Entire blocks of rock are sold as is. We practice just a tiny window to get an idea of its inner quality.

Jade's wedding

Celebrating the wedding of Jade on the occasion of 26 years of marriage.

Information About Gemstones - Jade, Jasper, Lapis lazuli

Jade

Jade is a very hard gemstone-green more or less pronounced. The different varieties of jade were very used to the time of the polished stone for making axes. In the symbolic Oriental jade was a stone on the Emperor, the symbol of absolute power. In addition, they placed in the mouth of the deceased a cicada jade, a symbol of eternal life and resurrection. Always in the East, jade is considered to be the seed of the dragon.

Use: gift for music and instruments.

Jasper

Jasper is a sedimentary rock is often classified with microcrystalline quartz. Jasper can have several aspects: spotted, ribbon, red (or Eastern), to red spots on a green background, black, etc.. and several varieties: The radiologists, red violet, the Lydian, rock close to the radiologists but gray or black due to the presence of carbonaceous materials, the aphanites more clay and gray or black. Jasper is often used to make cuts and also articles for the decoration of the facades.

Application: protection against venom.

Lapis lazuli

Lapis lazuli is a metamorphic rock that is often found in limestone. She is best known as an ornamental stone, opaque, blue, between the blue and ultramarine. The value lapis have a deep blue color, dotted with bursts of yellow pyrite. If they are too numerous, or if the rock contains veins of white calcite, then it loses its value. Lapis can be perfectly polite and it is widely used in jewelry. It is also used to make mosaics, sculptures and ornaments. Ground, it can serve as a blue pigment (overseas) for painting. Spinel, other ornamental stone, was sometimes sold for lapis and can also be confused with the sapphire.

Use: The lapis has a reputation as an aphrodisiac but you can assign other medicinal properties: good for the robustness of the members, and preventing the spirit of fear, doubt and envy. It is drunk crushed, mixed with milk.