JADE OCCURS IN MANY COLORS THRU OUT THE WORLD AND THERE IS A LARGE SUPPLY. TOP QUALITY JADE (NEPHRITE) OR JADEITE IS RARE AND BRINGS THE BEST PRICES SO IS THE MOST IN DEMAND. IN ANCIENT CHINA THE WHITE TRANSLUCENT NEPHRITE JADE WAS THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER AND EXPENSIVE. TODAY THE GREEN IMPERIAL GRADE JADEITE IS LIKELY THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER AND EXPENSIVE. GOOD JADE IS EXPENSIVE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE JADE BUT IS NOT IS CHEAP SO IF IT CAN BE PASSED OFF AS JADE THE PROFIT IS MUCH GREATER HENCE THE PROLIFERATION OF JADE SUBSTITUTES. BESIDES THE CHINESE WANT TO KEEP ALL THE GOOD JADE FOR THEMSELVES.
IF YOU CAN SCRATCH IT WITH A METAL SCRIBE ITS NOT JADE YOU MENTIONED IT SCRATCHED WHITE IF SO, ITS WHITE BUT NOT JADE.
#1. THRU #6. VARIOUS COLORS OF JADEITE CARVED IN CHINA
#7. CHINESE YELLOW NEPHRITE JADE A LOWER QUALITY DUE TO IT NOT BEING PURE WHITE AND TRANSLUCENT.
#8. & # 9. JADE SHOP AT HOKITIKA NEW ZEALAND. MAORI JADE NEPHRITE THERE ARE SEVERAL VARIOUS MAORI NAMES FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF JADES ALL FOUND ON THE SOUTH ISLAND.
#10 IS A PIECE OF JADE I FOUND ON THE BEACH AT HOKITIKA IT IS
SITTING ON A LARGE PIECE OF DRIFTWOOD NEAR WHERE IT WAS FOUND.
#11. CLOSE UP LIGHTED FROM BEHIND OF A MAORI PENDANT SHOWING A VERY GOOD QUALITY PIECE OF ONE TYPE OF MAORI JADE.
#12. OLD MAYAN JADE PENDANT