Recently acquired by the Mayfair-based luxury house, this “rough” (common parlance in precious-stone circles) piece of jadeite features many of the hues with which this silicate mineral can be blessed ...

Only available from Myanmar and traditionally cherished in imperial China, where quality green gemstones were believed to be a symbol of purity, jadeite has been less well known elsewhere – until now ...

On Shanghai's Xizang Road North, crowds gather in shops to watch a form of gambling that dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). A gambler buys a piece of ordinary-looking rock or stone, paying ...

KUNMING: Long Jiheng, a 41-year-old jewelry billionaire, will never forget his bittersweet experience of gambling on stones in 1997. "Thanks to my luck, I became a 28-year-old young millionaire ...