Behind us, the hillsides are covered in pinpricks ... Last year bombs exploded at the headquarters of two mining companies. In November, a jade scavenger at Hmaw Sisar mine was shot dead by ...

The 21-year-old was hard at work in one of the world's largest jade mines, in Kachin State in ... but they are just blaming us scavengers," he said. "It makes us very unhappy at a time when ...

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions ... Jade is thought to fund both sides of the conflict, according to Global Witness. Jade mining is also not without its risks.

Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi ...

Reports were scant from the area in Hpakant, which is the center of the world’s biggest and most lucrative jade mining industry. It’s a region where sporadic fighting has broken out between ...