The same eye that chooses Aratama’s stones, taught from the rough to the trade. Start with jade (jadeite or nephrite, natural or treated) and grow into every gem around it. Forty lessons, a working identifier, and an AI tutor that answers from the school’s own material.
Bring any stone to the light: a photograph for a first glance, then the eye, the instruments and the one test that decides.
Ask anything about jade. An AI tutor that answers only from the atelier’s own teaching, and says so when it cannot.
Is it real? What is it worth? Can I trust it? Short studies on the three questions every buyer asks.
In preparation
It speaks slowly: in the grain of its crystals, the way light sinks into it, the toughness that let people carve it for three thousand years. Learn to read it.
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What a gem is, how crystals grow, and why jade is a rock of countless interlocking crystals rather than a single one.
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Hardness, refractive index, specific gravity and the spectrum: the tests that separate jade from its many imitators.
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Colour, translucency and texture; the treatments (Type A, B and C) and why disclosure decides the price.
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Reading the rough, and the cabochon: the cut that suits jade best.
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Lab reports, appraisal, ethical sourcing, and buying and selling with a working gemologist’s judgement.
Explore the curriculum40 lessons across five grades.
The identifier and photo first look, on real stones.
Quiz yourself and track your grades.
