This rock is from near the boston bar first nations in british columbia. It was sanded by hand for perhaps 4 hours in total (100 grit sandpaper down to a 3000 grit) and the polished with a rotary tool.

Nephrite is jade of the variety found in china and new zealand, while jadite is the rarer type currently only found in Myanmar. I collect my stones from the banks of the fraser river in british columbia.

The image shown is in an article in the Salt Lake City Tribune along with a quote about 'circling the wagons', describing a technique supposedly used by white settlers when under attack by native americans.

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Intersting article on the site that caused so many of us to become steemians

An inteteresting article on the site that caused so many of to join steemit

Who may swim in the ocean of knowledge?

Its partially sanded and polished but otherwise how i found it. British Columbia's jade is of a type called nephrite and the jade found in the the north of the province is often perfect, like an emerald

Fraser Valley, British Columbia

British Columbia Jadestone

Boston Bar, Canada just after dawn

Nephrisuarus Rex (nephrite jade piece)

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look into the forest and the forest looks back

My campsite is in what was once an orchard and the black bears fearlessly scale 60+ feet into the air to get small, mostly tart cherries.

Eagles circling my camp with sunset made unusually red by forest fires burning 200 kilometers north of me.

Eagles

Red sunset and eagle

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Paranoid ravens?