{"id":237678,"date":"2025-07-09T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/?p=237678"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:21:52","slug":"american-jade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/american-jade\/","title":{"rendered":"American jade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A misleading local name for massive <strong>vesuvianite<\/strong> or a rock containing mostly vesuvianite. Except that the material resembles <a href=\"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/jade\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"228685\">jade<\/a>, there is no relationship mineralogically. Jade is a recognizable name and it is more financially attractive to sell the stone under this name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The translucent apple-green material was discovered around 1900 during the construction of a railroad in the Feather River Canyon at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California in the United States. George Frederick Kunz of Tiffany &amp; Co, a leading gemologist of the time who analyzed the material, was not a fan of the name vesuvianite and called it californite after the state where it was found. A name still used for solid vesuvianite even when found outside California.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also called California Jade, Pulga Jade or Feather River Jade, after the place Pulga in California&#8217;s Feather River Canyon where it is found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Do you have a nice example of this stone and would like to provide a photo for the library (with attribution)? Or do you have material that can be photographed? If so, please contact me &#8211; all contributions are appreciated!  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A misleading local name for massive vesuvianite or a rock containing mostly vesuvianite. Except that the material resembles jade, there is no relationship mineralogically. Jade&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[710],"tags":[2194,2200,2197,2196,2199,2133,2198,2195],"class_list":["post-237678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gem-or-scam","tag-american-jade-en","tag-american-jade-en-2","tag-california-jade-en","tag-californite","tag-feather-river-jade-en","tag-jade-en","tag-pulga-jade-en","tag-vesuvianite",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237686,"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237678\/revisions\/237686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapelvanstenen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}