Since the Stone Age, Jade has been mined in China. Originally, the stone was used for simple ornaments, weapons, tools, and beads. However, over time the value of Jade increased.

The show at Throckmorton considers 7,000 years of carved and polished Chinese jade. Jade has always been a luxury staple in China, but in antiquity it was the decoration of choice to accompany the ...

Miners recently unearthed a giant jade bolder in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also known as Burma. The jade stone weighs 192 U.S. tons, one of the largest piece of jade found in the ...

Mount Lai’s jade roller gets its inspiration from co-founder Stephanie Zheng’s grandmother, who practiced jade rolling and facial massage for over 50 years. The stone in this roller pops out ...

This jade axe is highly polished and would have taken hours to make. ... The polished stone axe was a revolutionary tool that transformed society and the landscape after the Ice Age.

But there are actually sources of jade in continental Europe and, only a few years ago, in 2003 - so six thousand years after our axe head was made - the precise origin of the stone it was made ...

The yoni egg, also widely know as the jade egg, is a polished stone in the shape of an egg, created to be inserted into your vagina. Jade eggs are believed to be Chinese in origin, ...

Using a diamond saw, he sliced the ax parallel to the polished surface and then buffed the new surfaces with commercial polishing equipment using three abrasives: diamond, corundum, and quartz.

Kraft guesses that the jade and labor that went into it, if ordered in the market, would have come to perhaps $1,500,000. But Baptist Kraft is not thinking about the value.

Jade rollers have been enjoying social-media stardom for a while now – at present, ... polished jade stone that is rolled across the facial contours. Steeped in history, ...

Now, it's at least 20,000 Yuan," said jade salesman Zhang Xian Kuo, referring to the cream-coloured, marbled stone found near his town of Hotan in Xinjiang Province, which is more highly-prized ...