A river, dubbed "China's richest river" in ... attracting many jade hunters annually. It is easy for jade hunters to find fragments of the nephrites. It is reported that people had began mining ...

The discovery fills in the blank of the jade workshop remains in the Neolithic age in the central plains and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, said Ma Juncai, leader of the excavation project ...

would divert the river in their quest to find new quarry. Even if river jade is increasingly hard to find, the promise of instant riches brings entire families to the river, where they can be seen ...

He obviously also had a liking for jade as he is known to have brought back a huge slab as booty after his defeat of the ruler of Moghulistan on the Ili River, 1424-5. This was worked into a ...