Jade comes in many colors, too: Green, lavender, white, and yellow. While most jade is jadeite on the market today, we are going to discuss nephrite – the other type of jade. Need a break?

Jade glows with a special aura. It's a fascinating material, known and treasured for millennia, but it's not always easy to identify. There are two different types of jade: jadeite and nephrite.

Henry, 38, a Darrington native who lives in Marblemount, spent the summer prospecting for the valuable gemstone nephrite jade near Helena Ridge, about 10 miles south of his hometown.

JADE was used for ornaments and tools by the native peoples of Mexico, Central America and Peru, by the Indians of British Columbia, and by the Eskimos. The source of the jade was something of a ...

Jade comes in two forms: Jadeite and Nephrite. Fake jades can be susceptible to chemical bleaching, color dying, and doubling, also known as layering.