Our handmade Sterling Silver ring, 1 1/2" in diameter, is adorned with delicate flowers and captures a beautiful Big Sur Jade stone from Jade Cove. The smooth dark green Jade measures 3/4" long and approx 5/8" wide. The pendant hangs from a oxidized silver plated link chain or bright silver chain, your choice of length up to 24" long. or purchase the pendant alone. See more Jade in our Big Sur Jade Collection. Last photos shows what Jade looks like before we polish it!
Big Sur Jade is 'Nephrite' Jade, and occurs in an isolated section along the rocky shore of the Big Sur coastline. Pieces of Jade stone that split off from the cliffs and underlying Jade boulders are churned up by currents then smoothed buying and shaped by time. Nephrite consists of a microcrystalline interlocking fibrous matrix of calcium, magnesium and iron. Jade is 7 on the Moh scale of hardness.
A little bit about how Jade got there.
Thanks to the subduction action of California's tectonic plates, which lie along the Big Sur coast, metamorphic rocks were created there millions of years ago, Nephrite Jade being one of them. Big Sur Jade is found in a secluded ocean cove down a steep jagged cliff along Big Sur's rocky coastline. The journey to Jade Cove starts along a narrow dirt trail flanked with coastal scrub, then transcends down a rocky cliff to a small beach. When the tide is high the beach becomes an unsafe cove of rough waves. Jade can be found on occasion when the tumultuous ocean action washes the green stones ashore. Those brave enough will dive for it.
Jade is the favored stone for the 12th Anniversary. To the Chinese, Jade is the embodiment of the Confucian virtues of courage, wisdom, modesty, justice and compassion.
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Product code: Big Sur Jade, Jade buying Cove, Jade Pendant, Rustic Pendant, Sterling Silver