🌈 Jewelry generally includes: natural jewelry and jade (natural gemstones, natural jade, natural organic gemstones), artificial gemstones (artificial gemstones, reconstructed gemstones, combined gemstones, synthetic gemstones), and precious metals for jewelry: gold, silver, platinum, palladium
👉 First, let’s understand what gems are?
The colorful and blingbling ones we often see are colored gemstones. From a professional point of view, colored gemstones refer to “mineral single crystals”.
There are more than 3,000 kinds of minerals in nature, and the ones that can be circulated as gemstones include the following:
✨ Diamond, corundum, beryl, chrysoberyl, crystal, tourmaline, feldspar, garnet, spinel, tanzanite, cordierite, topaz, apatite, peridot, chromium diopside, lithium Pyroxene etc.
👉 So what is jade?
There is an old saying: “The most beautiful stone is jade.” From a literal meaning, jade refers to a beautiful stone. From a professional point of view, “jade” refers to a mineral aggregate formed by one or more minerals.
✅ Common varieties of large jade include: jade, Hetian jade, quartzite jade, and natural glass
✅ Other small jade varieties: Dushan jade, Xiu jade, Lantian jade, Charoite, Su Jilai, rhodonite, seal stone, malachite, turquoise, lapis lazuli, water foam jade, fluorite, opal, etc.
👉 What are organic gemstones?
Organic gemstones are gemstones whose formation is related to living organisms (animals and plants) and whose mineral components contain organic components (CHO compounds).
💫 Common ones include pearls, amber, coral, shells, and ivory
💫 Other varieties: including Daiyu, Turtle Jia, Coal Crystal, Shuhua Jade, Rhinoceros Jiao, Helmet Rhinoceros Niao, Agarwood and other varieties.
👉Finally, what is the difference between gemstones and jade?
🍭 Colored gemstones are mineral single crystals, which appear as a single crystal, while jade is a mineral aggregate, which is made up of many small mineral single crystals. This is the difference between colored gemstones and jade.