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This chapter will consider all the jade occurrences in North America down to the USA/Mexico border. While Mexico is part of North America, any discussion of jade there is best treated with the jade of Central America for there is a close association with the jadeite of the Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas that is culturally and mineralogically quite distinct from the nephrite of the Indians in the North.
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Leaming, S.F. (1991). Jade in North America. In: Keverne, R. (eds) Jade. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3922-3_16
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