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The State of the Jade Business - 08/15/2009 While signs of life are seen at the gem markets abroad, the U.S. jade business has been struck by two huge blows: the precipitous fall of the economy almost concurrent with the enactment of the JADE Act (forbidding new supply of only 'certain' Burme... Some Thoughts on the JADE Act - 09/03/2008 On July 28, 2003, President George Bush signed into law the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003. This act bans the importation of any article that is produced, mined, grown, manufactured or assembled in Burma. This included precious stones, te... Jade superstitions - 04/10/2008 Jade Protects against disease: The Aztecs believed that it had prophylactic effect in gastric pains and in the passing of stones. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the young soldier-historian who was eyewitness to the 'triumphs' of Cortez, declared that... News and moss-in-snow - 12/29/2007 First things first: the Rocky Mountain News, one of Denver's two daily newspapers, recently did a nice article on 'The Jade Room' in the business section. You can view it by searching 'Rocky Mountain News' and 'The Jade Room' on Google. When a wh... What is Jade? - 12/08/2007 If asked 'what is jade?', the most common answer would be that 'jade is a green stone from China'. That would be wrong on several counts. First: it is not one stone, but two. Jade refers, collectively to the two distinct stones JADEITE and NEPHRITE,... Jade: first observations - 11/07/2007 Jade is the collective term for two stones: jadeite and nephrite. Chemically, they are different, but are both silicates: jadeite a silicate of sodium and aluminum, while nephrite is a silicate of calcium and magnesium. Nephrite has the longer docum... |
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