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T
he sources for Mesoamerican
jade were lost for the past five
centuries, until the search
began in the mid twentieth century.
Ancient jade artifacts had been
discovered earlier at archeological
sites, but no jade was found in situ
until 1952.
Jade was revered in the Maya world, an
ancient culture that flourished in the first
millennium A.D. in Mexico and Central
America. The Maya ci0vilization stretched
geographically over what is known today as
Guatemala, Belize, southern Mexico, and the
western regions of Honduras and El Salvador.
The Maya excelled in architecture, astronomy,
mathematics, agriculture and the arts.
The Maya, just as their predecessors, the
Olmecs, held jade in the highest esteem, as
it was rare and valuable, and represented
eternity. They buried their kings adorned with
jade masks and pectorals, considering jade
the ultimate passport to the afterlife. For the
Maya, green represented the life-giving water
of the Sacred Cenotes (natural wells) and the
rare green quetzal bird feathers, and green
symbolized the crops and fertility.
Besides the burial masks, jade was carved
into rings, ear flares, pendants, beads and
ceremonial objects. In addition to the colors,
jade was valued — and still is today — for its
durability and its ability to take a high polish.
Maya Jade:
Revival of a gem once revered by royalty
The impressive jade mask and pectoral of King Pakal the Great (War Shield in Maya language) of Palenque is at the National Museum of
Anthropology in Mexico City. PHOTO BY HELEN SERRAS-HERMAN
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Stretching back to 1800 B.C., the Maya
civilization is famous for its Classic Period (the
pinnacle of jade carving production), dating
between A.D. 250 and 900. After that date,
the downfall of the classic Maya began, and
most cities were eventually abandoned, with
the exception of the cities in the northern
Yucatán Peninsula, where the Maya people
retreated, until it all came to a violent end
with the invasion of the Spaniards in 1517.
At the beginning of the Spanish conquest,
the Maya people kept the location of their
jade mines secret in order to protect them
from the invaders, who thankfully did not
value jade. But over time, the location of the
ancient mines and quarries became forgotten
and lost.
The Maya Jade
rediscovery story
The amazing story of the jade rediscovery
spans over a century, involving many
American scientists and rockhounds
enamored with jade.
American geologist William Foshag,
curator of the Department of Mineral
Studies of the National Museum of Natural
History (Smithsonian), had spent several
years in Mexico and Guatemala in the
1940’s studying the ancient jades and
the geology of the area. Foshag wrote
about the discovery of jade in 1952 in the
Motagua River Valley of Guatemala by fellow
American Robert Leslie (Foshag, 1955).
In Foshag’s book, Mineralogical studies
on Guatemala Jade, published a year after
his death (Foshag, 1957), it is detailed about
how his research used x-ray diffraction
patterns and refractive indices to categorize
the Guatemalan jade as jadeite, and found
it to be similar to jade found in Burma. This
was the beginning of the rediscovery of the
Maya jade mining sources.
But it wasn’t until another American
couple, archaeologist and anthropologist
Mary Lou Ridinger and her late husband Jay
Ridinger, actually searched for the jade and
found their first outcrop of green jade on
a tributary of the Motagua River in 1974.
They sent samples to the GIA (Gemological
Institute of America) and other labs, all of
which confirmed their finds as jade.
Jade Minerals
Jade is a generic term that describes
several gem materials.
Nephrite, Ca2(Mg, Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2, is a
massive rock consisting of felted, intergrown,
fiberlike crystals of the minerals tremolite and
actinolite, members of the amphibole family
of minerals (Harlow, 1993). Nephrite is found
in many places in the world including China,
British Columbia, Siberia, New Zealand, and
Wyoming, USA, and occurs in many colors
ranging from pure white to green to black.
Jadeite, NaAlSi2O6 , the jade used by the
ancient Maya, is a rock composed mostly
of the pyroxene mineral jadeite, known
mineralogically as jadeite rock or jadeitite
(Harlow, 1993).The only other major
source of jadeite in the world is Myanmar
(Burma), where the famous translucent
green ‘imperial jade’ comes from; there are
also new sources found in Cuba and the
Dominican Republic.
This stunning 7” tall Maya portrait jar from Tikal is made out
of the rarest jadeite- the imperial jade. It is on display at the
Museum of Archeology & Ethnography in Guatemala City.
PHOTO BY HELEN SERRAS-HERMAN
By Helen Serras-Herman
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NUMBER
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CODE GLWG13
Venue: Gem Mall
4475 S. Country Club Rd., Tucson
Date: January 30 - February 12, 2016
Hours: Daily 10-6, final day 10-3
Admission: Free and not open to the public.
Wholesale only. Copy of tax ID, (EIN are not
accepted) or business license required with
wholesale purchase. May pre-register by
going to G&LW website.
No. of Vendors: 199
Promoter: Gem & Lapidary Wholesalers, Inc.
Phone: (601) 879-8832
Email: info@glwshows.com
Website: www.glwshows.com/
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Gem Show/Gem Mall
FLOORPLAN KEY
BR = Brown
CT = Cactus Tent
FT = Fiesta Tent
BR = Brown
BL = Blue
G = Green
O = Orange
PI = Pink
PU = Purple
R = Red
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G&LW GEM SHOW/GEM MALL
Shuttle Route info on pp. 32. Complete Vendor List for all shows on pp. 109
CACTUS TENT
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JEWELRY,GEM&BEADSHOWINFORMATION
Beads, African Art Village PHOTO BY PABLO RIVERA.
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10/07-10/09/2016. huntsville Gem & mineral society
Jewelry, Gem & mineral show, Jaycee community
center, 2180 Airport rd., huntsville. huntsville Gem
& mineral Society, Lowell Zoller, (256) 534-8803,
Lzol@comcast.net, www.huntsvillegms.org
11/25-11/27/2016. mobile rock & Gem society
annual show, Abba Shrine center, 7701 hitt
road, mobile, mobile. mobile rock & Gem
Society, Jim Patterson, jimandde@comcast.net,
www.mobilerockandgem.com
12/02-12/04/2016. montgomery Gem, mineral &
Jewelry show, Garrett coliseum, 1555 Federal
drive, montgomery. montgomery Gem & mineral
Society,terry Fetzer,theGoldennugget@hotmail.
com, www.montgomerygemandmineralsociety.com
u.s.a.-arizona - QuarTzsiTe
roCK, Gem & mineraL showCase
01/01-01/10/2016. Tyson wells rock & Gem show,
tyson wells Show Grounds, 100 w. Kuehn St.,
Quartzsite. Kym Scott, (928) 927-6366,
tysonwells@tds.net, www.tysonwells.com
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01/01-02/28/2016. Desert Gardens rock, Gem &
mineral show, desert Gardens Show Grounds,
1055 Kuehn rd., Quartzsite. desert Gardens
rv & mobile home Park, dennis e. Kuehl,
(623) 606-0053, dgshowgrounds@gmail.com,
www.desertgardensrvpark.net
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01/02-01/15/2016. prospectors’ panorama, 35 w.
Kuehn St., Quartzsite. Gmi, (520) 889-1840 or
(520) 360-7718, info@prospectorspanorama.com,
www.prospectorspanorama.com
01/20-01/24/2016. Qia powwow Gem & mineral
show, Quartzsite improvement Association, 235 e.
ironwood Ave., Quartzsite. Quartzsite improvement
Association, Sandy King, (928) 927-6325, Powwow@
QiAArizona.org, www.qiaarizona.org
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QuArtzSIte rOCK & MINerAL SHOWCASe
QUARTZSITE,ARIZoNA USA
Venues: 10 show locations. (4 rock, gem and
mineral show locations)
no. of Vendors: 3,000 (500 are gem, mineral,
fossil, bead & jewelry vendors)
show Dates: January 1 - February 28, 2016
Contact: www.xpopress.com
The Quartzsite shows are famous among professional and amateur
lapidaries and jewelry artists. The small desert town lies about 18
miles east of the Arizona-California border, and about 250 miles
northeast of Tucson. A quiet town of about 3,000 year-round
residents, that population explodes during the January-February
show, making Quartzsite a vibrant outdoor desert shopping mall.
About 3,000 vendors from all over come to Quartzsite to sell virtually anything and everything,
including serious dealers (about 500) of rocks, minerals, gems, fossils and jewelry. Of the ten or
more shows happening simultaneously there are four that are strictly rock and mineral related:
Desert Gardens Show, QIA Pow Wow, Prospector’s Panorama, and Tyson Wells Show. Prices are
notoriously cheap — compared to Tucson, where costs for many of the same items tend to be
quite higher. All shows have free admission and parking — though very difficult to find — and no
registration is required.
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FLOORPLAN KEY
AG-CN = Artists Gallery-
Conquistador
Room (upstairs)
AG-P = Artists Gallery-
Kiddie Pool Area
AG-SA = Artists Gallery-
St.Augustine
Room (upstairs)
BR = Ballroom
BRG = Gold Ballroom
ER = Exercise Room
BU = Buckley Room
GM = General Manager’s
Office
HE = Heidel
L = Lobby
MI = Mission Room
PA = Parkview Room
PE = Pershing Room
S = Second Floor
T = Tent
Stone and iron meteorites. PHOTO BY PABLO RIVERA.
MAP
NUMBER
SHOW
CODE AMFH7
MINERAL,ROCK&FOSSILSHOWINFORMATION
ARIZONA MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW AT HTCC
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Venue: Hotel Tucson City Center
475 N. Granada Ave., Tucson
Date: January 30 - February 13, 2016
Hours: Daily 10-6, final day 10-5
HTCC Silver & Copper Ballrooms will be open
January 28 - February 10, 2016
Admission: Free and open to the public.
Wholesale and retail. Copy of tax ID, EIN
or business license required with wholesale
purchase.
No. of Vendors: 292
Promoter: Martin Zinn Expositions LLC
Email: mzexpos@gmail.com
Website: www.mzexpos.com/