BMjade was founded in 2016 by Hong, a jade specialist based in Kunming, Yunnan — the capital of China's most established jade craftsmanship region. What began as a small workshop sourcing carefully selected Burmese jadeite has grown into a brand serving customers in over 30 countries, with one consistent promise: every jadeite piece is Type A certified, every nephrite piece is certified as natural untreated nephrite, and every piece is crafted by hand in Yunnan. No mass production. No treated material. No exceptions. In 2016, Hong was working between Myanmar's jade markets and Yunnan's carving workshops — the two ends of the world's finest jadeite supply chain. What he saw frustrated him: an international market increasingly flooded with Type B (acid-bleached and resin-injected) and Type C (dyed) jade being sold to overseas buyers who had no way to tell the difference. Even worse, many sellers refused to provide independent certification — leaving customers to take it on faith. Hong started BMjade with one straightforward goal: bring authentic, NGTC-certified Type A jade jewelry directly to international customers, with documentation they can verify themselves. No middlemen, no marketing tricks, no untraceable claims. Today, nine years later, that founding principle is still the only rule we follow. Every BMjade piece ships with a verifiable independent gemological certificate. Jadeite pieces are certified as natural Type A jadeite; nephrite pieces are certified as natural, untreated nephrite. The product page states the material and certificate type for each item. And every piece is crafted by hand in our Yunnan workshop — the same place where jade has been carved continuously for over 600 years. We work in both jades, and each comes from the region that produces it best. Jadeite comes from Hpakant in northern Myanmar, the source of the world's finest jadeite for over 800 years. Hong personally travels to Myanmar's jade markets multiple times each year, working with established mining contacts. Nephrite comes from Xinjiang — Hetian jade from the northern slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, the material Chinese courts prized for millennia and the reason "jade" meant nephrite in China long before jadeite ever arrived. Once back in our workshop, every piece of rough is examined under controlled lighting. For uncertain stones, we open a small window — a precise polished section — to verify the internal color, texture, and translucency before committing the full stone to production. This step prevents the costly mistake of carving a beautiful exterior over a flawed interior. Yunnan has been the heart of Chinese jade craftsmanship for over six centuries. Our workshop in Kunming follows the traditional approach: the design serves the stone, not the other way around. Each piece — bracelet, pendant, earring stud, or ring cabochon — is shaped according to that specific stone's color, internal structure, and natural character. Generic templates don't apply when no two stones are alike. Before any piece is listed in our store, it's sent to the National Gemstone Testing Center (NGTC) — Asia's most respected gemological lab — for independent verification. Each piece returns with a certificate bearing a unique serial number. We don't certify our own work. The certificate, the number, and the lifetime authenticity guarantee follow each piece into your hands.