“There are heirlooms and then there’s jade ... typically carved into bangles and disc pendants redolent of Chinese culture — into one of the jewelry trade’s trendiest stones.

ITOIGAWA, Niigata -- This central Japan city famed for its jade stones is set to ask people to refrain from taking the prized mineral formations from riverbeds and restrict collection to the ...

I didn’t. And what if I told you there was a place that is easily accessible, where anybody could go and quite easily find jade stones to pocket and take home? Amazingly, such a place exists.

The artist, who works with harder stones has participated in most of the ... In the 1980s, Verdite stone (Bud Stone or African Jade) mined in Concession, north of Harare, was regarded as the ...