The unlikely combination of a 1998 hurricane, Guatemalan mineral ... chopped them down into costume jewelry,” Seitz said. Those discoveries suggest that blue jade was “a valuable material ...

Harlow, a jade specialist at the American Museum ... Local prospectors picked up the precious scraps, which found their way into Guatemalan jewelry shops and, eventually, the hands of astonished ...

She wore a necklace of 27 imperial jadeite beads made ... November introduced a collection called As We Are, set with Guatemalan jade purchased from Yax Tun Minerals — recently took a class ...

Guatemalan archeologists have discovered ... the team found two delicate ear ornaments, a jade necklace, other pieces of jewelry and a jade ceremonial mask. The body of the king was not present ...

Guatemalan archaeologists hope two tombs ... accompanied by vessels and jade ornaments. A jade necklace could be a "war trophy," said Estrada-Belli at the National Palace of Culture.