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What is Greenstone?
Greenstone is the common nom de plume for two types of rock found in the South Island of New Zealand. The more common of the two is Nephrite, a calcium magnesium silicate and the second, Bowenite, a iron magnesium silicate. Increasingly the Maori name for Greenstone, Pounamu, is being adopted back into common usage by New Zealanders.
To Maori Pounamu is considered Taonga or treasure and the importance place on it can be seen in the name originally given by maori to the south island of New Zealand - "Te Wahi Pouname" or "the place of Pounamu".
To the wider world Greenstone is also described as New Zealand Jade, Jade being the commonly used term to describe the minerals Nephrite commonly shades of grays and greens, and Jadeite which includes also blacks, reds, pinks and violets. Bowenite falls outside the classification of Jade although in New Zealand it is considered Pounamu or Greenstone.
In recent years as part of the Waitangi Tribunal process for addressing grievances by the Maori Peoples of New Zealand, ownership of all Pounamu occuring in its natural state has been vested in the Ngai Tahu tribe. Most exploitation of Pounamu or Greenstone is tightly controlled by Ngai Tahu in order to ensure the sustainability of the stone for future generations. Ngai tahu, however, recognising that collection of Greenstone is considered by all New Zealanders to be part of their cultural heritage, allow the collection of Greenstone from south island west coast beaches where the stone has been exposed by natural processes of erosion and is of a size that a single person is able to carry it.
Where is it found?
Although smaller deposits are found in other locations around the world, the main modern source of Nephrite Jade is Canada. New Zealand Nephrite comes exclusively from the South Island Of New Zealand and Bowenite from just a small area around Milford Sound.
What is it used for?
Historically, as Maori had no metals Poumanu was used to make weapons such as the mere or club and tools such as adzes in addition to personal ornaments such as Hei Tiki, Manaia, Fishhooks and Koru. These items were and are revered and handed down through families as heirlooms. Today, Greenstone or Pounamu carvings are a popular gift for New Zealanders and visitors alike.
Because of the hardness of the material modern carvers use diamond edged tools to work the stone into beautiful traditional and modern designs (This is however much easier than the methods our ancestors needed to use!).
To see beautiful examples of modern and traditional design hand crafted New Zealand Greenstone carvings including a wide range of Tiki, Manaia, Koru and Fishhooks visit us at GreenstoneGecko.com.
China Has Become The World's Largest Processing Base Jade
In recent years, jade jewelry market with rapid economic development, jade jade market developed rapidly. Jade Jade specificity: high hardness, high specific gravity, in order to Cui Fei-based rich purple color, a very high appreciation and collection space, the re-jade auction market boom has attracted domestic and around the world Jade Jade's attention.
As China adjacent to Myanmar, China has the world's largest emerald jade consuming nations, Myanmar jade wool naturally poured into China, the processing team is constantly growing, processing technology and processing market matures, other jade and jewelry processing and relatively slow development. If Shoushan stone, Xiuyu, Kunlun jade, jade, and Henan Hetian jade and other domestic skilled processing staff, have joined the ranks of emerald jade processing. Coupled with training in previous years, staff has been processing a large number of jade jade apprenticeship, employing over a million, for the world.
Jadeite jade processing base in China at present, not just the year a few districts or a number of state-owned processing plants, replaced by hundreds of thousands to run as the main processing base throughout the country. Almost every city, every JADE sales market has a size ranging from processing base, China's one-year processing capacity of nearly ten thousand tons of emerald jade.
The most representative of the emerald jade processing base in Guangzhou in Guangdong, Jieyang, four Council, Ping Chau, Sanshui, Shunde, Shenzhen and Shantou, Yunnan's Tengchong, Ruili and Kunming and Baoshan, and the town of Nanyang in Henan Ping, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Harbin, Zhejiang, Yang Zhou, Fujian's Putian, while Guangdong is now the country's largest processing base of emerald jade.
A new generation of design and carving teacher emerge in recent years, the famous large emerald jade pieces, such as a world-class large emerald jade Buddha Goddess of Mercy and other works have been displayed before the world, relevant reports have been received or accepted auction has been all over the world favored by collectors. Chinese Master is the world's largest jade carving, jade, jade jade carving art has been recognized as a world-class.
According to experts, to incomplete statistics, Chinese jade jade jade jade products processing base, the world's total processing capacity of the Ba Cheng Fei. Jadeite jade is not only become the world's largest consuming country, but also to meet people's needs, but are sold throughout the world, and sold back to the country of origin Burma Jade has been for many years.
To sum up, China has become the world's largest emerald jade processing base.
However, experts have warned, Myanmar has been facing the depletion of raw jade jade, jade jade supply of raw material shortages will occur after a few years, which is now one of the reasons prices JADE; if Burma failed to find the origin of new Jade Jade Mine This will be Chinese jade jade processing base of the processing industry have a certain impact.
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