
Sun God Mala. Exotic Yellow jade blended with Fancy Jasper, Red Jasper, Tiger's Eye in shades of blue, red, and the most popular, brown, and opalite. Some of the yellow jade is tourmilated (needle-like inclusions of black tourmaline that formed inside the jade). Credits below to Diana Houston, crystalsandjewelry.com.
Yellow Jade Properties
Why Would You Use Yellow Jade?
Yellow Jade is associated with Fire Energy, which is oriented to identity, ego, and self-definition. Its yellow color will instill optimism, enthusiasm, wisdom, and intellect.
It’s aligned with the Sun and the planet Mars, and it will encourage you to harness your personal power and achieve a sense of fulfillment.
Yellow Jade will bring energies of self-confidence, courage, and abundance. It will impart wisdom in silence and tranquility, and it will dispel harm and negativity.
This stone will also attract good luck and good fortune, and it will enable self-sufficiency. It will help you release your emotions in a healthy manner.
When used as a dream stone, it will help you release your thoughts and emotions as dreams and help you process them when you awake.
Yellow Jade is made up of calcium magnesium iron silicate.
It has a hardness of 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs scale. This is the stone’s ability resist scratches and other kinds of surface damage.
It’s extremely tough, and it also has the ability to create light dispersion and brilliance effects.
Yellow Jade refers to the yellow variety of Nephrite, which is a variety of Jade.
It’s one of the rarest kinds of Jades, with colors being as light as lemon. It can also exhibit a dark golden color.
Yellow Jade can usually be found in Myanmar, Guatemala, Japan, and in some parts of the USA, including California and Alaska. It can also be found in some localities in China.
Yellow Jade that’s mined from different locations also exhibits different features in color, smoothness, and many more.
Its yellow color is caused by ions that get inside the crystal lattice and by the element tantalum.
Yellow Jade’s color is of its own, which is the original chromophore instead of the secondary chromophore.
This is an important component when it comes to judging a Yellow Jade stone.
As a rare species of Nephrite, Yellow Jade has a long history of usage.
Its high value and the pure color is comparable to or can even surpass Mutton Fat Jade, also known as White Jade, and is followed closely by more and more gemstone collectors.