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Jade is a very precious stone, although its value is not the greatest. ... Many jade products are seen in a green/white mixture. ... There are many other unique facts about jade other than just its formation process, colors, and quality. Jade has a historical background that goes through Asia’s rare and precious stones. ... In the epistemology dictionary written by Xu Shen in the 1st Century AD, jade is described as any stone that has the five virtues: benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, courage, and purity. Jade is a stone that contains the two specific minerals jadeite and nephrite. ...
Jade is very popular in China, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia. For the mineral to be found naturally, eager miners search for this valuable stone in Myanmar, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Burma, Canada, and Guatemala. In China, every jewelry shop sells any type or style of jade, because if it doesn’t, the store is considered low-quality. Many customers in Asia prefer to purchase jade as a decorative ornament and they can buy it practically anywhere.
Jade is to be known to form through millions of years of tectonic activity. ... Because the air is cooler on the earths surface, the hot gas escaping through the cracks liquefies and flows back down inside the earth, where it becomes a solid under conditions of high temperatures and high pressure, resulting in the formation of jade. Sometimes loose pieces of jade are carried by a torrential current picked up by a type of storm such as typhoons or monsoons and end up at the mouth of a river. ...
Jade is divided into three categories: jade mined in the mountains, waters and sands. When jade is mined in the mountains, the mines are widely dispersed among the landscapes and are the major source of large blocks of jade. When jade is mined in waters, the mines appear in small patches and the surface of the uncut jade always looks uneven. Using this type of mining can only mine the best quality among all sorts of jade.
Approximate Word count = 1651
Approximate Pages = 6.6
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