Jade Locations

Until recently, the jewelers and collectors, Jadeíta only looked for in Asia, to buy it.

Traditionally related with China, but coming mainly of Myanmar (Previously Birmania), the jadeíta was cut and correspondent from Hong Kong, per centuries. At the moment the western enthusiasts of the Jade have discovered that there are mines of better quality and but near: In the Valley of the River Motagua in Guatemala. A very fine Jadeíta, in colors that they go of the brilliant and intense green, to the soft, blue lilac, rose, white and yellow, this being exploited in Guatemala, although this it happens in several parts of the world the quality of that of Guatemala, it is the best. The well-known sources of Jadeíta are scarce and they are limited to: Birmania, Guatemala, Japan, and Kazakhstan.

The Jade of Guatemala is Jadeita of the best quality. The one that is formed for enormous pressures and to low temperatures, being only in the Valley of Motagua, to the east of the country. Calcedonita that is a quarzita, is a mineral of smaller quality that Jadeita or the nefrita, a variety verdiazul, classified as "Calcedonita crisocola", it is exploited in Guerrero and Chiapas, Mexico, and in the Valley of Motagua Guatemala, and it is also abundant in Before Columbus material of Costa Rica. This calcedonita variety is called "jade" in Mexico and Costa Rica, in Guatemala he/she is called "Guatemalita." The whole true Jade found in Mexico and Costa Rica, is from Guatemala.

 

In Guatemala it is not used heat neither any other treatment, contrary to most of that of Myanmar, (where they make it to improve the color and quality) this being extracted in a natural way in Guatemala, it is not surprise for the geologists, since in the Valley of Motagua, the American badges North and that of Caribbean is generating those enormous pressures, neither for the Archaeologists who believe for some time that all the old cultures of Center America, (Olmecan, Tolteca, Mixteca, Zapoteca, Aztec and especially Mayan) Jadeíta traded from Guatemala. The confirmed only source of this beautiful mineral, it is up to now in the Valley of the River Motagua overdraft.