1515Art Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 I thought everyone might enjoy looking at some interesting nephrite jade, this snake necklace and leopard ring were carved by a friend in China from untreated natural dark green nephrite jade with naturally occurring gold. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Seeker Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Very Nice!! Does the gold look "gold" in person or silver like it does in the photos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1515Art Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 it looks like it does in the pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortuga Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Wow didn't think you could find gold in jade/nephrite... What a combo. I've heard of gold in amethyst (purple quartz) before occurring around Rich Hill. That'd be something to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1515Art Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 This is the first of this stuff I've seen, it comes from the Xin Jiang area in China same as that giant gold nugget found by the farmer while plowing his land. That doesn't narrow the area down very much, for a comparison Xin Jiang is an area about the size of California... its all very tight lipped as they don't want a billion people swarming into the gold fields looking to get rich. Xin Jiang is also a major jade producing location too, Chris Ralph could tell you all about the relationship to the gold and mineralization I'm sure... I'm not far enough into his book to do the subject justice. My friend in Xin Mi has chrysoprase mines located near some of the largest gold producing area in Central China, the property covers a couple of mountains and valleys. It has been in his family for generations and never been prospected for gold in the time his family has farmed it, jade mining has been fairly recent. next time I'm there ill take a little time and look around a bit, might even bring the zed along. Angela, my wife asked our friend about hunting for gold on his land and he was all for it, said it would be OK any time... just, seems not likely if none has ever been stumbled on before that his land would have gold on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasong Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Amazing stuff if that's gold. We have a lot of nephrite around Central Wyoming where I live, I used to find it when I was a kid. It was associated with rubies out there but I never even considered gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1515Art Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 having not had any of this tested i can't tell for certain what the metal mix is, but this comes from the studio of a guy who is very famous for his carving and i'm told this is gold by my friend who has written a dozen books or so on China's master jade carvers. she just flew in this morning from shanghai and brought a bunch of stuff for my wife from these guys for the jade jewelry book she is working on and i thought the jade with gold was pretty cool looking and was a good fit here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianbullet Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Great post. Very beautiful work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 That is some top notch material. I would love to make some jewelry with it. If you could ever lead me to a source, I would be indebted. Thanks for sharing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 having not had any of this tested i can't tell for certain what the metal mix is, Hate to rain on this but it is almost certainly not gold. More likely pyrite inclusions. Really great stuff though, thanks for posting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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