Blue Dream Jade 3/8"+ Polished Slab (Lapidary or Jewelry Rough - Nephrite)

Description

Item Details
Material:
Blue Dream Jade
®
Weight:
1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:
159mm x 143mm x 12mm
Price:
.99
Blue Dream Jade
®
A unique material among nephrite jades, Blue Dream Jade
®
is an incredibly hard, vibrant blue material with moderate translucense and a swirling-to-even pattern that takes a superb polish.  The blues of all shades test as tremolite (a variety of nephrite) with Raman Spectroscopy.  Blue Dream Jade
®
also contains a fair amount of vibrant material best categorized as chatoyant.  In the best grades, this chatoyant material has an even, cirrus-cloud-like distribution of shimmering threads floating in the jade's vibrant reflected blue light.  This material retains uniform hardness unlike classic chatoyant jades.  An example image of a finished pendant made from this material viewed under both reflected daylight (frontlit) and transmitted daylight (backlit) is included for reference.
For more information, see the full Blue Dream Jade
®
page on WashingtonJade.com.   Wholesale quantities available.  Inquiries invited via WashingtonJade.com.