Does anyone know if Jade is hard stone or a soft stone?

Jade is a very hard stone. You may have had a jade-like stone.

Many minerals are sold as jade. Some of these are: serpentine (also bowenite), carnelian, aventurine quartz, glass, grossularite, Vesuvianite, soapstone (and other steatites such as shoushan stone) and recently, Australian chrysoprase.

"Korean jade," "Suzhou jade," "Styrian jade," "Canadian jade," "Olive jade" and "New jade" are all really serpentine; "Transvaal jade" is grossularite.

Have a look at this extract from the site referenced below:

Mineral toughness is defined as a qualitative value that represents a minerals resistance to fracture when exposed to a high strain rate impact stress. Mineral toughness is different from mineral hardness, for example some minerals that have high indentation hardnesses are fragile. They chip and fracture easily and require care when being worked to minimize potential damage. Topaz is an example of such a mineral, with an indentation hardness twice that of quartz, but also very susceptible to fracturing. Other minerals of lower hardness are less susceptible to fracturing and are ideal for lapidary carving and the making of thin-rock sections. An example of such a mineral is nephrite (jade), which is the 2nd toughest naturally occurring mineral with an indentation hardness similar to that of feldspar. The fracture toughness of minerals are measured with a Charpy V-notch testing apparatus and in units of MPa(m)½. Minerals can be graded in terms of their fracture toughness from poor, fair, good, excellent, and exceptional.

(On the table jade's toughness was listed as excellent)

I bought a jade ring a while back and happened to clap my hands and the metal ring on the other hand broke the jade ring. So now I've bought another 3 jade rings. One of which is now broke.

I rarely wear them now because they are my favourite but they do seem to break quite easily.

Jade is a hard type of stone as it is used to make various ornament and small statues

jadeis a soft stone which was catagorised under nitrate.Its good for craving.So that joker Deans who say its a hard stone, he knows nothing.

she's fat and weighs 30 stone

didn,t she win BB...

hard