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| Zeke's Jade Gallery Page 1 Misc Localities |
By no means are all of these definitively jade of either variety, further testing will be required. Specifically an accurate Specific Gravity test (coming soon). However, if you are picking up pieces like this you are doing well. (I'm also going to post oddities, jaspers, etc) Feel free to leave comments in the photobucket or at the bottom of the page. These are just some of my favorites, for a more complete look at my collection check out my albums (organized by location) the links to which are on my profile page, or browse through my Photobucket albums (altho they are terribly organized and I can't change them around as that would ruin all my links...and the album names are just names to help me remember what rock is what and don't actually necessarily reflect what the rock is. I'm always looking for input, so feel free to comment, or even edit these pages if you know what you are doing.
I will slowly add notes on the pieces and will gladly include anything you have to offer.
If I put the slide shows together correctly they should show dry shots first then wet. I didn't edit much, just took a bunch of shots, so wait for the good ones or go to the main view and pick. You can speed the slide-show up as well.
When I finally get a machine (soon) I'll post a picture of the cut pieces. Either by adding to the album (which will put them first on the slide-show) or linking to a sub-folder. Updates and what not will be in red. If not otherwise noted, stones are hard enough to be jade and exhibit the other common features (waxy feel, heavy for it's size, etc)
~Zeke
Warning!! These are pictures of rough jade for identification in the field, not polished pieces of the finest Burmese jadeite!!! They are also "organic" pages that I am constantly updating and cross referencing, so if jade is your thing, these galleries are for you. Updates are in red, and the stones, unless otherwise noted, present the classic tells of jade...that is harder than a knife, waxy luster or feel, and heavy for it's size compared with a piece of quartz. Sometimes the "conversation" is ongoing, so it's best to work your way through the entire gallery. VIEWING THE SLIDE-SHOWS IS WORTH THE EFFORT, AS IT WILL GIVE YOU A BETTER FEEL FOR THE ROCK, AND THE PHOTOS I PICKED FOR THE GALLERIES ARE RARLY THE MOST INFORMATIVE, RATHER JUST THE BEST COMPOSED. And there are a lot of stupid mistakes in the beginning, but for the most part the information is good. Happy hunting!!!
~Zeke
 RamEyeJade Grandy Creek | Here is the contact of rondingite with jade and serpentinite. The eye is fused to the jade. Above that the rondingite is brecciated (on the nose), cemented with serpentine and/or nephrite. Inside this piece is translucent. The rodingite is of the tan variety like "Baby Dragon". Compare with 'BlueTaffyHeartBreccia' on page 10. |
 Globular Brown Grandy Creek | The brown here is likely only the rind, the internal color is unknown. This piece shows minor botryoidalism, I call it "globular" (a little used synonym) to distinguish between true botryoidalism. I'm not sure what to properly call these forms. It seems they are weathered out boudins, lenses or pods (from serpentinized schist). LENSES...globular lenses. |
 Mushroom Hat Grandy Creek | this is one of the biggest "globulars" I have, the break on it is natural (I stopt breaking my pieces) and shows the internal color and translucency. The black on pieces like this is serpentinite. |
 Blues and Browns | This one is probably just wishful thinking. Jade will make a fool out of us all. No it's jade...compare with 'BlueOrbs' on page 10. |
 HOG Hard Opaque Green Grandy Creek? | Grandy Creek or Pilchuck...bad rockhound! Maybe even Finney... I love the opaques, and not just because they are easier to find! Its because the color is better, at least in Washington the colors are more consistently GREEN when opaque. But then its easier to be fooled by a pretty chert. |
 Cuz Grandy Creek | There are two colors presenting in this boulder, light and dark. That's my favorite in the background and chert in the foreground. The album includes shots taken after I smashed off an end. It broke on a weak area between a dark zone and a light zone. The black inclusions are also a weak point. This well be one of the first stones I do a specific gravity test on. (because I already broke it) The dark is sub-translucent, almost emerald green. Rocks like this look a lot like the conglomerate-like chert or meta-chert all over grandy creek but a little nicer with what I take as a splintery fracture. But remember what I said about jade and fools. What gives pieces like this away as possibly being jade to me are the black inclusions, which I've seen in specimens at the University (local material). I wouldn't have a good explanation for the inclusions in a chert. I can't remember what the black was suppose to be, but its not serpentinite like I note on other pieces. |
 Big Green Grandy Creek | Once again, note the black stuff seeping out of this piece. This one is heavily molted, opaque and hard on the outside. But everyday I lose a little bit of hope for it. Time and testing will tell. |
 Finney's Finest | This is a very translucent piece with very nice color. So nice that I worry its actually a pre-nephrite actinolite. This view shows the "rind" but along the fracture side you can see the beauty. Notice the tiny black inclusions. Some spots on this piece reflect light like a crystal face adding to the confusion of the piece(i.e. grain size seems inappropriate for jade, at least on the "rind" and edges, but the fracture side seems to be made of fiberous cyrstals as you would expect with jade). Hardness is at least 6.5. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Goblin Green Finney Creek | I'm working on getting more shots of this one. It is another piece of solid translucency, but the color (from the outside at least) is not the best. Ok, new shots up. Its hard to believe that this one is anything but jade. You can see the fiberiness(?word?), it has a rind, is hard enough and is just ugly enough to make you say "it figures..." |
 Deer Creek | This is a most curious piece. It looks kind of like the stuff I pulled from a seam in a road cut on Blanchard Hill, but I don't believe its the same. I see a splintery fracture and a rind. So either its jade, some kind of bownite(sp?the serpentine stuff) or its quartz. I'm going with jade of course. CUTS |
 Grandy Creek | Like I said, I don't break these open any more. Fifty-fifty chance there's jade inside. |
 Flat Finney | Translucent stuff, but soft (at least outside). The orange must be a weathering effect. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Deer Creek Rind | Traditional rind here. Probably the most valuable picture I have to show to new jade hunters. I don't know of course how pretty or translucent it is on the inside yet, but from the resent fractures along the edge it is green. I'm not even worried about testing this one, its jade. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Finney Opaque | Like I said, I love the opaque stuff, but it easily fools you. There's got to be more going on than just good color. This one easlily passes, having no chert like fractures or weathering, and still clings to a hint of black serpentinite. Not to mention that the chert around there looks nothing like this, it is the odd stone out and into my bucket. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Flood's Jade Finney Creek | Wow! Probably just serpentine, but wow anyway. Notice the white. That's the color inside in that area, not an oxidized rind. There is a fracture that runs through most of one of the ends, so once I can bring myself to do it, I'll break it to test the inside for hardness and translucency. But not this end! But yeah, its soft on the outside....but only in spots, typical of these jades. My current conclusion is that this is jade...compare with 'CreekSide' from Deer Creek (JG v1.0 pg7) and pieces on JG v.2.0 Finney Creek pg1 TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Nephrite Boulder Finney Creek | When I found this one it was covered in grey mud. I was just randomly tapping rocks to test for "springiness" as jade will feel like its pushing back(i.e. not absorbing the energy). This is the first time I've actually noticed the effect. My guess is, is that the rind must be hard and the stone large enough to notice it. A hard rind helps keep the inner jade tight, just like with "ringing stones". Most jades develop softer rinds that must dampen the effect. The rind on this piece is only slightly off the inside color, very hard but a bit brittle. This is a "no doubt" piece, it is jade(nephrite). The inclusions, I assume, are jade as well (and have the nicest color). I read somewhere about this kind of jade in Washington, but until now could never find it. If you look closely at it you might notice what looks like foliation on one of the flat faces. Also notice the angles...just coincidence? Jade isn't suppose to have visible cleavage (its modest) so I guess it is just a coincidence. The color is a bit disappointing but it makes up for it by being so neat and large. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Slipper Grandy Creek | Too many things going on here. The white on the bottom is rodingite...everything else is up in the air. |
 Silly Birdhead Grandy creek | Dark areas are serpentinite, light areas are nephrite sills and dikes or layers. There's not much you can do with a piece like this but display it. |
 Yeller North Fork Stillaguamish | You'll have to view the other side to see why this might be jade....Its not an inappropriate color, but it is still most likely jasper, it just doesn't look quite right though. Some of the green on the reverse side definitely seems to be serpentinite, which would be consistent with this being jade, not jasper at all. The rest of the green is hard, like jade. The white is probably a later addition, but could also be jade. |
 Opaque Deer Deer Creek, Oso | Jade from deer creek. Very nice motled coloring with a whitish green rind. If all I found was stuff like this, I'd be a happy hound. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Good Chance Finney Creek | Light blueish green with a fair amount of translucency. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Another Good Chance Finney Creek | TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
 Watermelon Jade? Finney Creek | There is nothing soft on this one. The light colored areas are translucent, especially the "butt" of the watermelon. Unfortunatly it is too nice a piece as is to break or cut. Perhaps I could cut it in half without ruining the watermelon effect. I really want to see the inside. TRIP REPORT 04-29-09 |
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