Original Message:   Icy Jade

A fashion that seems to have started about 20 years ago, marketing translucent and/or colorless Burmese jadeite as rare and valuable. When I first bought a piece, it was termed "water jade." Quite a lot of it around nowadays ... and with all things jade, difficult to casually distinguish from calcite, quartz, certain glasses, or jadeite that has been bleached and polymer-impregnated. Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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