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Jade City, British Columbia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jade City is a spot on the road in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, near the Yukon, located on Highway 37, west of Good Hope Lake and close to Cassiar, in the Cassiar Highlands.The region around Jade City is rich with serpentinite (a jade precursor), greenstone (jade look-a-likes), and jade.ade City is by road about 24 hours north of Vancouver, and 1 hour south of the Yukon border. As of 2015, it has a population of about 30 people. Jade City is a very small town.
In China, where jade has been treasured the most, there was only nephrite before the 18th century. The highly treasured pieces from that time are creamy white in color and uniformly translucent. Since the mid-18th century, jadeite has been imported from Burma (now Myanmar), and has become the most popular form of jade in China. Besides in Burma, jadeite is also found in Japan, part of the former Soviet Union, Central America, and California. The actual color and the texture of the jadeite piece derives from the metallic element(s) it contains and the way the piece was formed geologically. Green jadeite, known as fei tsui in Chinese, seems to be used almost exclusively in jewelry-setting, and is the most popular type of jadeite.