Jade, an internationally recognized gemstone with great investment value

Jade, as an internationally recognized jewel, has great investment value.

1. Jade, the most precious treasure among all treasures

Jadeite, as it is known in China, is a type of jade, belonging to the jadeite family, and is native to Myanmar. Around the middle and late Qing Dynasty, jadeite entered the country in large quantities and was loved by Empress Dowager Cixi. At that time, jadeite became a plaything for princes and nobles both inside and outside the court. Known as the 'King of Jade'. Internationally, jade is included in the category of gemstones and is known as one of the “five famous treasures” along with diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerald. No matter how it is divided, it conveys a message to us: "Jade is extremely precious, and it is no exaggeration to call it the treasure among treasures.

2. How much is jade worth?

In the early 1990s, a piece of glass-bottomed green jadeite weighing about 100 grams was priced at around US$150,000; in May 1995, a green jadeite necklace was sold at a sky-high price of more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record for the highest price of a single piece of jadeite jewelry at the time and causing a great sensation; in 1996, Christie's sold a jadeite bracelet for more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a world record for the auction price of jadeite bracelets; at the Christie's Hong Kong Autumn Auction in 1997, a necklace composed of 27 pure green jadeite beads, with a 10-carat diamond chain buckle, was finally sold for 80 million Hong Kong dollars. It set the world record for a single piece of jade jewellery at Christie's Hong Kong Autumn Auction in 1999. An oval cabochon jadeite ring was sold for HK$16.5 million. From these records, we can find that the value of high-end jadeite is almost the same as that of diamonds and emeralds.

3. There are reasons why jade is expensive

1. The high price of jade is due to the particularity of its origin. According to current explorations, jade is found in only six countries in the world, including Myanmar, China, Russia and Japan. However, high-quality jade with collection value is only produced within a few hundred square kilometers of the Lulu River, a tributary of the Iwatewaddy River in Myanmar. As the saying goes, "Gold is easy to get, but jade is hard to find." Jade is rarer than diamonds and has greater collection value.

2. The value of jade depends on the particularity of jade transactions. Jade is a mineral, and it must be hidden in some rock layers. But it is different from ordinary mineral deposits. It is wrapped in some rocks that look ordinary on the surface. If you open these rocks, you can peel out the jade hidden inside. Then you can make high-end jewelry. However, before these stones are cut, they are no different from ordinary stones, and even with the latest technology it is impossible to detect their internal quality. I don’t know whether there is jade inside or not, how much jade is hidden, and how high the quality is. Therefore, there is a saying in the jade industry: "Even gods cannot tell the quality of a piece of jade."

3. The value of jade also includes the risk and return in jade processing. In addition to the huge risk of "gambling on stones", there are still huge risks in the jade processing process. There was once a jade processing company. The electric saw cut the 10 cubic centimeters of high jade in the core of the original stone into two halves. A good full green bracelet worth one million yuan was scrapped. High risk inevitably requires high returns, so the value of jade is correspondingly high.

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