Stones On Necklace

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by kardinalisimo, May 23, 2016.

  1. kardinalisimo

    kardinalisimo Well-Known Member

    Any suggestions on the type of stones?
    Thanks
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  2. all_fakes

    all_fakes Well-Known Member

    The long curvy ones are a kind of shell...dentalium, I think. Sometimes used by Native Americans in the Western or Northwest US and Canada.
    The central stone looks like (maybe) some type of jade, or one of the stones commonly called jade....and could also be from the NW (as in "BC jade")...but there are other possibilities and I'm sure folks will offer some of them.
     
  3. kardinalisimo

    kardinalisimo Well-Known Member

    Thanks. Never heard of that shell but it does look to be dentalium.
     
  4. September

    September New Member

    The darker green stone appears to be a marbled jade.
     
  5. kardinalisimo

    kardinalisimo Well-Known Member

    What is marbled jade? Not a true jade I guess.
     
  6. all_fakes

    all_fakes Well-Known Member

    I could be wrong, but I believe "marbled jade" would refer to a pattern in the jade, rather than being a different mineral.
    "Jade is a commercial term encompassing green, white, black or yellow-brown jadeite and nephrite. Jadeite is a rock that consists essentially of jadeite (sodium-rich, high-pressure pyroxene), whereas nephrite consists of prismatic to acicular amphiboles of the tremolite-actinolite series forming bundles that are randomly oriented and interlocked."
    (From BC government site).
    Nephrite jade is more common than jadeite; all the jade found in British Columbia is nephrite, and BC produces about 75% of the world's supply of nephrite.
    The stone pictured looks to me like nephrite jade, quite similar to some pieces I've seen from BC.
     
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