Wholesale Burmese jade 925 silver

Burmese jade (925 silver) Burmese jade is actually jadeite. In 1863, Alexis Damour, French mineralogist (1808-1902) dissociated jadeite and nephrite in the composition of jade. Jadeite comes from the pyroxenes family, minerals from the inosilicate group. They are common components of magmatic and metamorphic rocks. This pyroxene results from the metamorphism of sodium-rich serpentines. In France, jadeite and nephrite were called jade without distinction before the 19th century. In China, jadeite appeared in the middle of the 18th century. It came from Burma. It turns out that all the ancient jades used in China before this period were nephritis.