Jadeite is produced all over the world, but the only sources that can really produce jewelry-grade and commercial-grade jadeite are Myanmar and Guatemala in Central America. So when we discuss the value of jadeite in different origins, we are actually discussing the difference between the market value of Burmese and dangerous materials.
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The value of jadeite remains high
Promote the value of dangerous materials
At the beginning of 2020, with the outbreak of the epidemic and the turmoil in Myanmar, coupled with the over-exploitation of Myanmar materials and the Myanmar government's mining restriction policies, it became more and more difficult for Myanmar materials to enter the country, and the rising momentum of jadeite in the past two years has become more and more fierce.
The continued high price of Myanmar is not affordable for ordinary consumers, which has also made some merchants turn their attention to Guatemala, the second largest producer of jadeite storage after Myanmar. Since Guatemala has not established diplomatic relations with China and has no direct trade channels, the dangerous materials need to be transported to Russia and then enter the Chinese market from Russia, and the green color of the dangerous materials that entered the country in the early days is unevenly distributed, the transparency is poor, the grain structure is not balanced, and the so-called "cabbage price" transportation cost even exceeds the value of the jadeite itself.
However, in 2018 and 2019, due to the impact of the overall price increase of Myanmar materials, the price of dangerous materials began to soar rapidly. Today, in the major domestic source markets, the proportion of dangerous material stalls in the market is also expanding.
With the entry of "dangerous materials" into the market in recent years, more merchants and investors have seen new commercial points, and have invested and collected high-end dangerous materials in the market, and in the past two years, they have indeed fulfilled their business vision, and the price of dangerous materials has indeed changed dramatically, from the original "cabbage price" to today's price. As a result, it also attracted more merchants to invest and collect.
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The lower the price gap, the greater the price gap
The higher the price gap is relatively small
At present, most of the dangerous materials on the market are mainly based on mid-range quality and mid-range price, and there are also some high-end quality and high-end price goods. Some people in the industry believe that compared with dangerous materials, the lower the gap between Myanmar materials and dangerous materials, the greater the gap, and the high-end gap will be relatively small.
At the same time, in the market, at the same price to buy jadeite from different origins, the grade of the water color of the dangerous material will be about 1-2 grades higher than the Burmese material. For example, also in the price of small tens of thousands, under the same size, Burmese materials can buy a Buddha with an ice feeling and green, and dangerous materials can buy a full green Buddha with a stronger sense of ice and a fuller color. Of course, there will also be black dot white cotton in some dangerous materials, which is relatively not as clean as burmese materials, but the black dots and white cotton in the dangerous materials are generally not going to affect the overall appearance, and the key is to see personal trade-offs and preferences.
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Identification characteristics of the origin of dangerous materials
The formation conditions and main components of hazardous materials in Myanmar are basically the same, and the physical and chemical properties are basically the same. Although some scholars have found that the content of some elements in Myanmar and dangerous materials is slightly different through the analysis of trace elements, it is impossible to make a conclusion due to the limitation of the number of samples; and it is a destructive test that cannot be applied to daily testing activities. However, to a certain extent, the appearance characteristics of dangerous materials can be summarized scientifically and objectively.
Summary of the identification characteristics of dangerous materials
At the same time, it also corrects some misunderstandings in the identification of dangerous materials that are widely circulated in the market:
1. Density cannot be used as a scientific basis for the identification of origin.
Emerald density, depending on the proportion of symbiotic minerals, fluctuates to a certain extent. Dark minerals tend to increase in density, and dangerous materials can even be higher than 3.35. If Myanmar jadeite contains a certain amount of sodium feldspar, the density will also decrease, so it is impossible to judge whether it is a dangerous material by density.
High-density inclusions cause the density of dangerous materials to increase
2. The proportion of pyroxene mineral composition cannot be used as a scientific basis for the identification of origin.
Is there a rumor that the mineral composition of chrysotyl is not a dangerous material? However, after laboratory tests, it was found that the infrared map of dirty cotton is a dangerous material jadeite dominated by pyroxene.
Graph of infrared reflections of pyroxene
3. The proportion of color-causing elements cannot be used as a scientific basis for the identification of origin.
It is rumored that the dangerous material does not contain chromium and is colored by iron? The absorption peaks of iron and chromium were visible in the ultraviolet atlas of the first two green samples, and the peaks of chromium absorption were obviously not seen in the last two gray-green iron absorption peaks, so the green of the dangerous material was also chromium colorogenic.
Iron absorption peaks are clearly absent from chromium absorption peaks
Because each place of origin will have texture (fine grain - coarse grain), transparency (opaque - transparent) and various shades of raw material output, so a single from a feature to distinguish dangerous materials is not scientific enough, the value evaluation of jadeite or to return to the traditional evaluation of the value of a piece of jadeite from the species, water, color, work evaluation is more scientific.
All in all, from the perspective of market conditions, due to the development of the jadeite market for more than ten years, the market share of dangerous materials and Burmese materials has undergone certain changes, and myanmar materials and dangerous materials have room for upgrading. In the future, it is not excluded that there may be jadeite found in other places of origin entering the market, and the significance of the place of origin is not the decisive factor leading to the price of jadeite, but the quality and cost performance that determine the price of jadeite.