what is jade made of
Jadeite and nephrite are the materials that have been collectively known as jade for thousands of years. Green Jadeite Buttons: Hand-made, antique Chinese jadeite buttons showing the typical color quality green jadeite. The jadeite in these buttons was most likely mined in Burma (the Union of Myanmar today).hey have a color, luster and translucence that is know to occur in jade. Maw Sit Sit is a rock composed of jadeite, albite and kosmochlor (a mineral related to jadeite). It has a bright chrome green color and accepts a bright polish. For those reasons it is used as a gemstone.