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Nephrite can be found in a creamy white form (known in China as mutton fat jade) as well as in a variety of green colours, whereas jadeite shows more colour variations, including blue, lavender-mauve, pink, and emerald-green colours. Of the two, jadeite is rarer, documented in fewer than 12 places worldwide.
Jadeite is beautiful, and rare, and even though itâs a relative newcomer in the Asian jade trade (the 1700s) it became Chinaâs pre-eminent gemstone over the past two centuries, and thatâs at the root of the confusion between the two stones. (The Chinese use the word âyuâ to refer to both kinds of jade.)