BLACK JADE NEPHRITE ROUGH

BLACK JADE NEPHRITE ROUGH

A block cut piece of Black Jade Nephrite Rough Rock ready for a crafts person to carve or make jewellery with.  This is genuine true black nephrite jade from Cowell, South Australia (the best Black Jade in the world).  This variant of jade is becoming more popular and is used, in particular, for carving into super-lustrous pendants and jewellery.  One of the toughest rocks on the planet.  The Black colour is from an inclusion of Iron of up to 8%.  Pics taken inside and outdoors with wet and dry stone.  The stone is roughly rectangle with one face cut to show the quality of grade.  Ideal for sculpture work of cutting into slabs for a carver to make jewellery.  Will polish to an outstanding mirror finish.

Location:
Cowell, South Australia, Australia.

Dimensions:
14.5cm x 10.6cm x 15cm, 4588g.

The Name Jade

Jade is a name that was applied to ornamental stones that were being brought to Europe from China and Central America.  It wasn’t until 1863 that it was realized that Jade was being applied to two different minerals.  The two minerals are both exquisite for the purposes that jade is put to task and are hard to distinguish from each other.  Now both are called Jade.

Toughest Natural Stone in the World