See Africa Trading in Mackay, Queensland for wholesale and retail sales of authentic African butter jade stone sculptures. Butter jade is a semi-precious, very hard stone found in Zimbabwe. Sculptures in this stone are extremely difficult to carve by the natives and therefore only the more talented of the artists attempt to use it to carve. Butter jade is a lightly coloured stone. It normally ranges in light greens and can rarely be found in off-white. There is a great deal of texture and subtle changes of colour in even the smallest piece, and therefore any carving in butter jade is a prized piece.
