[Rockhounds] '08 olympic medal(s) -w/jJADE

[Pmodreski at aol.com]

Thanks for that nice link to the description of the Olympic medals,  Kitty.
 
In a message dated 8/17/2008 12:50:35 PM Mountain Daylight Time,  
kahako at hawaiiantel.net writes:

http://en.beijing2008.cn/67/83/article214028367.shtml



It answers one question that I had been wondering about myself--how much  
gold was really in the Gold medals.  Back in the spring the Denver Museum  of 
Nature and Science had a large, really good special guest exhibit on "Gold",  
which included such things as Olympic medals as well as mineral specimens,  
archeological treasures, gold bars recovered from shipwrecks, etc.; but I'd  
noticed that the labeling there never did precisely explain, how pure the gold  and 
silver in the Olympic medals actually were.  So now I know,
 
"The medals for the champion and the runner-up are made of pure silver, and  
the champion's medal must be plated with gold weighing not less than six grams 
 each."
 
However, there's more to the story about the jade than is explained on this  
web page.  Somewhere (I can't offer a link to this online  though), I had 
additionally heard it explained, that the three medals contain  different types of 
jade, of progressively greater value.  One can see  this in the color 
difference of the jade in the three medals in the picture  linked above; white jade 
(Gold medal) is supposed to be the most prized;  light green, in the Silver 
medal, the next most valuable; and dark green jade  (least valuable) in the 
Bronze medal.  That is what I read somewhere,  anyway.  It's neat that they 
customized the 2008 medals this way!
 
Pete



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