jadeite

The Maya were known to use the green form of the jadeite for their carvings.

Jadeite was used to decorate the body and presumably a symbol of power.

The blue jadeite, for example, is known to have traces of titanium and iron.

The jadeite was used to make cult axes, which are found all over western Europe.

It is the more common and less valuable variety of jade, the other being jadeite.

Elizabeth also makes jewelry from jadeite, tiger eye and other local materials.

Type A jadeite has not been treated in any way except surface waxing.

The role of jadeite as a social marker is best displayed in burial finds.

It is famous for its jade mines which produce the world's best quality jadeite.

The question could well be asked why jadeite lost its symbolic role during the Bronze Age.

Most of the jadeite is not, in fact, Chinese but Burmese.

Jadeite and nephrite artifacts found in the new world were at one point thought to have been from Asia.

He discovered a 140 lb boulder of jadeite that had a translucent, light blue color.

Of the two, jadeite is rarer, documented in fewer than 12 places worldwide.

The second sort is the mineral jadeite, and it is a pyroxene.

Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade.

The sculpture was made from one piece of half-white, half-green jadeite.

This valuable type of jadeite contains a translucent rich-green color.

Jadeite is formed in metamorphic rocks under high pressure and relatively low temperature conditions.

Certain items - a jadeite model of a pointed tool used for ritual self-mutilation - are just strange.

Jade cut from emerald green jadeite is considered one of the most valuable gemstones.

The only other source of jadeite known from Asia was a relatively insignificant one in Japan.

The first sort (jadeite) has more colors that the second sort (nephrite).

The city has actually grown into the biggest processing and trade center of jadeite in Southeast Asia.

Translucent emerald-green jadeite is the most prized variety, both historically and today.