David Fredericks Of Timeless Jade Announced To Be Keynote Speaker At 19Th Annual Big Sur Jade Festival
California’s Clear Creek Jadeite Showing Many Healed Fractures In Upper Photo & Minuscule Pure Jadeite Crystals Healing Another Fracture In A Higher Microscopic Power View – Specimen From Kirk Brock – Rock Solid Jade
“David Fredericks, world-renowned author of TimelessJade.com andTimelessArtifact.com, will be presented as this year’s keynote speaker for the 19th Annual Big Sur Jade Festival.
David will be putting on a two-hour (2pm to 4pm) microscopic, interactive display of jade and jadeite artifacts and specimens for those who attend this never-before done special event.
The microscopic investigation will be presented Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Along with specimens from around the globe, the public is invited to bring a few of their own items about which they may be curious.”
As the wonderful announcement from the Big Sur Jade Festival above refers, we are proud to be invited to to be the keynote speaker at one of the Greatest Jade Events in the World. Being part of past festivals we have only the highest regard for this one. This is the festival where it is all about Jade & Jadeite from around the World. Just about every top geologist, geophysicist, jade miner and jade artisan has attended this wonderful three day festival, where the live music never stops playing and the huge crowds which attend are all in harmony with the “Stones of Heaven”.
Beautiful Jade Sculpture By Georg Schmerholz
Marvelous White Siberian Jade Shell Form By Peter Schilling
David Fredericks will be putting on the first known, interactive microscopic display showing the qualities, features and anomalies of nephrite and jadeite jades as shown on Timeless Jade. This will include interactive, personal viewings under microscopic conditions of differing jades and jadeites, and their structural qualities, from around the globe, along with personal viewing of real artifact jades and their modern replications. Each of the three two-hour sessions will be filled with specimen jades and anomalies of both nephrite and jadeite.
Two Of The Artifact Jades That Will Be On Display & For Microscopic Viewing
Attendees of the interactive microscopic display will be allowed to bring a few specimens of their own for open viewing, as time allows. We only ask for courtesy for others and an understanding that this will be going on for two hours, each of the three days of the Jade Festival. We will get to as much as is humanly possible in the times allotted, while still holding to a bit of a schedule in the presentations we feel are most important to the jade and jadeite worlds, and the new and exciting discoveries being made.
Microscopic View of Kirk Makepeace’s Specimen from The Jade Mine New Mt. Ogden Nephrite Discovery
Extremely Old & Very New Pseudomorphs In Wyoming Nephrite Jade
As can well be imagined, there will be many specimens of the local Big Sur Jades to be viewed under microscopic conditions as well, during the demonstrations periods. There will also be viewings of new discoveries in the jade world from new sources. All in all, it should be one of the most fun and most informative jade & jadeite presentations, we believe, that has ever been undertaken – at least that is our grandest desire.
Microscopic Drilling Marks On an Over 5,500 year old Chinese Jade Artifact
David Fredericks — Yulongwei