Lite Green Jade Necklace

JE-N-35

Necklace of 50 cm made up of pearls of lite green Jade from 7 to 19 mm in diameter. The name jade goes up at times of the Spanish conquète of the Central America and the south. It means will piedra ijada (stone of the kidneys) because one looked at this mineral like a means of cure for the kidneys. Its Chinese name is yu and the Chinese regard it as an invaluable stone. hardness on the MOHS scale of hardness: 6.5-7 density: