HOTAN, China — Prospectors line the banks of the Yulong Kashgar River here, overturning boulders, boring into banks and panning pebbles in a scene out of the California Gold Rush. The object of their ...

Gold has a price but jade doesn't, says a Chinese proverb. Unlike gold, with standard quality and weight, whose value can be roughly estimated, the value of jade is difficult to appraise. Zhou Yan ...

Former BBC reporter Andrew Shaw is the only foreigner to have learned how to carve jade in China. Born and raised in north London, the 62-year-old’s passion for jade was ignited at the end of a ...

A massive jade boulder that went missing from outside a shop in Cache Creek, B.C. has been recovered. The Cariboo Jade & Gift Shoppe said someone took off with the 30-centimetre-thick boulder, which ...