Jade - decorative rocks (from creamy white to greenish). Term jade often used for both jadeite and nephrite.
The most valuable is "Hotan jade" being pure white & termed "mutton fat". It's price reached 3000$ per ounce in 2010.
"The major source of Chinese nephrite is Hotan in western China's Xinjiang Province, while jadeite comes from the Hpakan region of Upper Myanmar (Burma)."
"Environmental watchdog Global Witness valued Kachin’s jade (northern state in Myanmar) trade at up to US $31 billion, with 50 to 80% being sold illegally to China."
"At least three people were killed in a December 2021 landslide, while a 2020 landslide claimed 162 lives and another in 2015 killed 113."
"Chinese term '玉石之路' (jade road) exists within Chinese archaeological and cultural articles (and even in business and travel magazines) as a prehistory to the 'Silk Road'. There exists evidence of a jade trade during the Neolithic Period (12,000 – 2200 BCE) and the Bronze Age (2200 – 500 BCE) in China well before silk was transported along the 'Silk Road'."
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Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/29/global-witness-report-jade-in-myanmar
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