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Apeculiarity of jade sources in the world as a whole is the abundance of finds around the Pacific Rim. There is no equivalent Atlantic Rim or Mediterranean Rim. Starting at the top of the Pacific Rim (the Bering Straits) and going clockwise, the first jade-bearing area is Alaska, then comes western Canada — both important sources of nephrite. Farther south are the states of Washington, Oregon and California, in all of which either nephrite or jadeite (or both) are found; in California nephrite predominates and much has been extracted.
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Tan, LP., Chihara, K., Frey, R. (1991). Jade of the Pacific Rim. In: Keverne, R. (eds) Jade. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3922-3_11
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