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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 347839, member: 54&quot;]Take it to someone who deals in it daily, some jewelers may be qualified.&nbsp; I’ve been looking at “jade or not” posts with photos online for years and almost never see anyone answer “yes” or “no.”&nbsp; Always “maybe.”&nbsp; Until a expert holds it, looks into it with a loupe, all you’ll have is a “maybe.”&nbsp; IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can get CGTN on digital TV, there’s an interesting 10-part documentary on jade.&nbsp; On same channel recently there was a multi-part documentary “The Silk Road.”&nbsp; The reporter was covering a part of the road in Kyrzakstan.&nbsp; About a dozen local men hiked ten miles along mountain trails to a jade mine that had been mined for hundreds of years.&nbsp; They took all the food and explosives they could carry.&nbsp; After a couple of weeks of blasting and digging each man packed 50kg of white jade on his back, and once in town sold the jade for fairly low prices to a Chinese company with a tent-office in town.&nbsp; That’s if I understood it all, I wasn’t paying full attention.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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