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Man I really am loving your videos! I learned to carve Jade while spending a year in New Zealand and since have been obsessed basically giving myself a course in geology trying to learn how to spot it as well as where it forms. That has been challenging!your videos have been among the most helpful! Thank you also I’d love to win a piece 😅
Your Welcome! It’s take time to develop an eye for Jade in all the forms it can be found. The waterway are usually the easiest to locate as long as it’s present in the waterway your looking in.
I have an idea for another teaching video. You can feature the rocks I find and explain why they are not Jade! You videos will improve my odds of eventually finding and correctly identifying Jade. Thank you
Enjoyed this video immensely. Never watched a "progression" video before and thought it was very informative. It helped me learn more about the Jade process and it also helped me in the identification of one of the rocks I found. Steve Erickson
100% agree. In trying to learn more about rock hounding I have watched scores of videos on many different types of rocks. Have never seen a video like this one. As I posted, very informative.
Glad you commented. I know there’s lots of people that have questions about Jade and the only resource they have is the internet. It’s always great to have someone to talk to that has first hand experience with identifying and locating Jade
There is a lot of that all around California, especially in Jade Cove. It's called serpentine. How long did it take to make that cut in your stone? If it was really jade, the motor of your saw would be smoking before you were 1/4 done. I found a small piece of jade at jade cove. It was about 2" long, and pencil shaped. The outside was brown and smooth. I sawed it in half with a diamond band saw I had (really meant for stain glass work). Most stones I have cut with it, like quartz, beryl, tourmaline, etc, cut easy. To do that 3/8" cut took almost an hour and ruined the motor. It overheated and was smoking by the time I got done. One half was polished into a nice cab. It is jet black and shows dome orange peel surface. I have a few pieces of jade from BC (a nice uniform green with black hematite specks), Burma (translucent clear-green, also with hematite inclusions).
Hahaha while I understand that me be normal to some, that's just insane to me. Like something that should be on "how it's made". Do you have a website?
@@breacher13 I'm actually just now putting together a Lapidary shop. Got lots of learning to do and am looking forward to posting videos of my progress.
I often thought that as well. My birthstone is opal. I've read that only people that are born within a certain time frame and opal is their birthstone should be the only ones that can wear it. I'm sure this is just a superstition.
@@GreenJadeHunter that's very cool to find out it's so strange how sometimes we can find that the world is actually a very small place. The largest opal ever found was I forget how many tons and I believe it was found in Oregon
I've always loved Jade many years ago Smithsonian did an article on Jade and they had all the different colors of Jade that you could imagine and the one that I found so beautiful, I love the green but they showed some carvings and stuff made out of all the different colors and the one I found really amazing was the white Jade I didn't even know there was such a thing I'd always seen Green Jade but I hadn't seen the red or the white it was really cool
Jade is a stone and not a mineral. Stones are derived from lots of different minerals. When your serpentine mixes with a high calcium rock you will absolutely have swirling contact jades that have both purified tremolite and hardened serpentine
