Jade Slices – Jadeite

Name: Jade Slices - Jadeite
SKU: CC218
Availability: InStock

$44.00 – $79.00

Beautiful green jadeite jade slices are certainly an interesting shape but they are affordable! Jade means good fortune and good health.

Healing Properties

Healing Properties of Jadeite Jade

Luck, Wisdom, Longevity

Note: This jade has a glassy feel and is more less available than nephrite jade.

Signifies wisdom gathered in tranquillity, good luck and friendship.
Aids gentle emotional and mental release e.g. irritability.
Re-empowers- encourages you to be who you really are.
Protective - helps against bullying or intimidation e.g.
- in children, domestic abuse, and
- good for “peace keeper” jobs like social worker.
Helps create youthfulness in body and mind.
Said to aid body’s filtration systems, arthritis, and menstrual.

Additional Properties Based on Colour

Green:

Increases harmony.
Channels constructive passion.
Calms nervous system.

White:

Symbol of purity and serenity.
Filters distractions.
Aids decision-making.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Jade

Term jade is applied to two different metamorphic rocks, Nephrite and Jadeite, that are made up of different silicate minerals.
Nephrite jade is a silicate of calcium and magnesium, and jadeite, a silicate of sodium and aluminium.

General Identification

Type: Mineral
Class: Silicates
Crystal System: Monoclinic

Jadeite

Mohs Hardness: 6.5 - 7
Formula: NaAlSi₂O₆ or Na(Al,Fe³⁺)Si₂O₆
Crystal Habit: Commonly massive, or fibrous, granular; prismatic crystals rare
Lustre / Diaphaneity: Translucent,Subvitreous, pearly on cleavages
Colour: Apple-green, emerald-green, bluish green, leek-green, greenish white, white, may show green spots, rarely blue or violet; colorless in thin section. Often also banded.

Nephrite

Mohs Hardness: 6-6.5
Formula: Ca₂(Mg,Fe)₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂
Crystal Habit: massive
Lustre / Diaphaneity: Translucent to opaque and often mottled, dull
Colour: Light to dark green, yellow to brown, white, gray, black.

Special Notes

New Zealand Greenstone Pounamu has one form that is currently considered a third type of jade.
- However some websites list as nephrite which I don't agree with as it has a glassy feel like jadeite.
- Hence why I think it should be a third classification.
- The other NZ forms are serpentine and bowenite.
China has ancient nephrite jade mines but the preferred "more valued" jade is jadeite from Burma.
Burmese Jadeite is now extremely hard to get commercially and even tourist buying locally have trouble exporting.
Nephrite Jade can be confused by with Serpentine or Bowenite as they may both grow in the same mine (as advised by an Australian miner of both). The distinction needs a microscope.
This has encourage deception by sellers and manufacturers:
- Jadeite is often "enhanced"
- Many "jades" are not e.g.New Jade and African Jade are not true jade - they are serpentine varieties.
- Many in Australia sell green aventurine as jade. And Australia's chrysoprase is now being sold as Australian Jade. Neither are jades.
- Also chalcedony is often dyed green and called jade.
- There are a lot of "fakes". Jade will feel waxy similar to calcite's feel. This website has spent some time finding them: http://molly.kalafut.org/jade/fake.html
Nephrite Jades are fairly easy to get depending on the colour.
More geological information.

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