BC Jade- How to identify good Jade 

Thank you very much. Very informative. We are in newfoundland and our family rockhound at least once a week. You gave us the knowledge of what to take and what to leave with mother earth.

Excellent informative narrative about British Columbia Jade, and Jade from Elsewhere. Thank you Adam for delivering your factual info. Old William.

Thank you for this video, very informative. I live in Alaska, and I know there is jade about but have recently become more interested in actually finding some smaller pieces on the beach. This will help me identify what is real jade and what isn't! We (my family) already find plenty of beach agates near our family cabin.

Bro nice work ! Thank you for your perspectives.

Thankyou brother, you are genuine and helpful! I’ve only touched prospecting on whidbey island..so far. It’s really fun since I love the area in general, but I now want to focus my search of this gorgeous place...when I get to come back to the coast:)

You are a wealth of knowledge Adam,thanks for jade lecture.Go B.C ⛏💎

Excellent well rounded video. Great to see this knowledge shared with people. Thank you very much

Nice job, many thanks!

Good info concisely delivered

Finally something with useful and understandable information!!! EXCELLENT WORK!!!

Thanks for the info bro 😁👍

Good practical information.

will those flat jade surface do a good polish to metals? or polisg knifes edges?

Thanks for sharing. I would like to see a video on how to recognize jade when your walking along the beach/ cobble stones.

Because of its durability early cultures that had jade to make tools, advanced faster than those that didn't. Chinese, south American, and even north west indigenous. Found a stone scraper made of jade, had an anthropologist look at it, determination - pre contact - later assessment up to 1000.00 years old still sharp. amazing find. Pretty piece was returned to Komox first nation, may have been a burial offering.

I came here from a video about a guy who took a risk selling un opened jade to Chinese buyers for 700000. Things I've discovered are. Lots about jade. I like listening to dudes talk about rocks. And this dude looks like he could tell me all about the energy from the rocks, but instead he just unloads science. Woah!!!

I love learning more about jade, that is my middle name and it means a lot to me so thank you for sharing your information

Very helpful, I didn’t know that serpentine becomes jade.

I have like a 100 lb drk grn translucent... how can i test it? Is it jade or black jadeite???

you are a good teacher,

That purple quartz you had in the last bit is nice. Does it also come from our province here?

Love this man! Seriously good time learning!

Im new at buying Jade. I had recently come across some black Jade, and I was hooked.

How much were those square chunks of jade worth?

Just bought my first British Columbia (nepherite) Jade today. based on your pictures or displays i guess it is a good one but thicker slice about an inch. After I bought it i realized it is chromium jade which i had to look up what it was still not sure what it is.

I am your fans now, Sir

COOL VIDEO

Thank you for the informative video. I have 2 pieces of river Jade each 40-50 lbs. (as well as a 1,410 lb. river boulder) from the Dease Lake area and was thinking of cutting them until I saw this video. What is the reason for not cutting them?

Well Done buddy

Thank you so so so so so so very much! This explained all of my questions in one easily digestible video. I keep running into glossy basalt, and it has been quite frustrating when my instincts tell me to cut into it.

Cool ;) do you also sell raw stones? Namaste

So I have about 500lbs of this stuff in two boulders in my front yard, how would I go about sizing it down enough to fit on my 15" slab saw? I think I can cut about 7" or so, the boulders are about 18" through.

Thanks for this!!! It’s so hard to find decent identification info on RU-vid! 😉 Utah rockhounder here ❤️

I get what you're driving at -- nephrite has a longer history in China and so is sort of the original "jade" -- but I think you're going to confuse people. Now "Jadeite" refers to a particular mineral -- it doesn't mean any old green serpentinite-type stuff that isn't nephrite. It doesn't mean _pseudo-jade_ or _fake_ Jade. Also, it's generally more valuable than nephrite -- which would be odd if it were just fake nephrite.

do you sell

Doese jade crack when heated with fire? I bought a small peace of neprite jade and i want to put it in a gold ring.

My Jade is apple green with sweet looking fibre with no inclusions.

Can Nephrite jade be produced artificially? (same minerals, color patches, fibers)

Jade is a wonderful stone to carve, but is tricky to polish. Because it is tough it can be worked very thin revealing it's translucent qualities. After carving and smoothing, finish on a leather wheel with cerium oxide. I like to pick through the bargain bins at rock shows, found lots of nice stuff for cheap prices, usually smaller pieces, not just jade. Found some really nice jade awhile back carved 3 leaf shaped pendants, nice and thin. Beautiful and translucent. With lots of chromium spots through it.

You're wrong. Translucent: Cloudy, slightly cloudy. Transparent: Able to see straight through like glass.

Nice sir great

Adam: Throws 1 million rock around like trash Me:??? Me:😂😂

Jade is very cold to the touch that’s one way of being able to tell when you’re picking it up as a river rock. And I have found Jade on the Fraser River

Something to be aware of, jade may contain a certain content of asbestos. So when cutting, or working it always with water, and wear a mask.

Did you say serpentine turns into jade?

Hi, great video. I’m from New Zealand and have been carving jade for a few years now. Me and my wife have come to Canada to check out the jade here and learn more. I’ve already found some nephrite in lillooet, and yes you really have to be willing to go to the hard to reach spots. I was wondering where you’re based? If you have a store I’d love to swing past while on our road trip.

What tool to cut it

Did you have some cromejade for sale

avertine or adventuring ...yes mostly Chinese bead sellers they do call it Jade and it's courts.

nephrite-jade, use a knife to test for serpentine is much less in hardness, it can also be translucent.

Thank you dearly for attempted to crush the dreams of every 'purple shirt'. I wish I could like a million times. Its simultaneously hilarious and depressingly heartbreaking to watch those crystal healing snake oil used car salespersons.

jadeite jade is hard jade right and nephrite jade is soft jade and less expensive. He said that nephrite jade is real jade- this is the cheaper form of jade right???

Chrysoprase is world wide chalcedony coloured by nickel. You were referring to Marlborough Chrydoprase

I have lot’s of dime to quarter sized Agates of various colour ranging from red to clear fishing trophies if I don’t catch fish i always find Agates and if I don’t find Agates i go home with fish Vancouver B.C.

Are you selling??????

Adam translucent is not like glass, that is transparent, you messed up lol

I try

I have nice jade from vermont.

Hey bro awesome vid thanks I'm a rock hound with a nose that always finds the goods. We have a bunch of material that is like rootbeer brown and when you describe jade its like that. We also pull agate out of the same hole some are naturally the size of a soft ball. Outs comes out fresh from a vein I found and I suspect there is opal in it to.

Why is river jade so valuable?

Approx @28:00 You're continuing to differentiate between nephrite and jadeite and, initially, I was put off because of the scientific data behind the differences between the two and BAM! It hit me between the eyes: Well, then why isn't it ALL called simply "jade?" Why the term "jadeite," at all? Why? Duh. Because they're 2 different stones which happen to be green. Dang.

bc ,, hook me up, i have lapidary and i want to make tokis ,, figh hooks ect

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0:40 i thought only Jadeite is, Nephrite is not fiberous? Because the main way to spot Nephrite from Jadeite is that Nephrite doesnt look fiberous, while Jadeite does.

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I have jade like stone.

Great video. Very informational fucking love it. Now please. Improve the lighting. Lol

ur holding titan and giant guys lol

Jesus christ you made your point move on assume people clicked on this because they wanted to know how to tell high quality from low.

You have some very beautiful chunks of Chrome Jade in your video. I like that kind the best also. In the last part of your video you seemed to confuse the terms "Jade" (a catchall category that includes Nepherite and Jadeite and sometimes green stones that look a little like Nepherite or jadeite, but aren't), with "Jadeite". Both Jadeite and Nepherite are considered actual "Jade" even though they have quite different chemical makeups as well as hardness differences. Here is a link that lists and compares a lot of the differences (including chemical composition, hardness, and crystalline structure) between Nepherite and Jadeite (the latter sometimes referred to as Burmese Jade since most of it's occurrence is in Burma), whereas "BC Jade" and "Chinese Jade" generally refers to Nepherite, found in both locations: www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-nephrite-and-vs-jadeite/

did you know... that 1 gram of jade is worth over 100 billion dollars!

Hey bud, I’m from northern Minnesota LSA addict. Anyways I found a nice nodule in a local gravel pit (Duluth, Mn) . Find me on facebook, search Jim Durfee. Hopefully you can help properly identify this stone I found. It’s pretty rad!! Hope to hear from ya!!!

Bon Bon please email. Thankyou.

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My brother, this video has made me tired and I did not understand anything new to know the real serious. Let your words be clear and frank, without distorted examples. Thank you ، F , J .

Unprepared and uniformed. Why did Canada legalize marijuana???

"Stones have no power" lol as you said stones have the power you put in them. : )

Why are we looking at your abdomine, your hair and NOT really looking a "up close " JADE?

bounce it out

17:40 "stones have no power" Uranium. Magnetite. Hey, i'm just saying. You cant say "they have no power because i dont believe in it". Ancient man with limited knowledge also wouldnt know Uranium or Magnetite had any power.

Honestly, you might be a good carver but beyond that ha ha

"jadeite, nephrite is not JADE fake news! i have lots of REAL jade white mutton fat , every color in the rainbow, fully impregnated with AU. the specific gravity of my Jade Is heavier then all other jade. all hardness."

why are you misinforming people about jade? nephrite has almost a hundred kinds of jade while jadite is one, and the most rare and valuable is jadite

Dude, your hair looks terrible! Change your hairstyle and you will be a handsome guy!

A soon as the red shirt guy did the Shaytanic horn hand symbol pointing I unsubscribed ... Don't support it until he changes his ways. Facts