Abstract: A method to identify the source region of white nephrite by detecting element Be and Al with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy is proposed to measure chemical compositions of 54 white nephrite samples collected from Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Russia. A laser excitation wavelength of 1064 nm was used and the spectrum was collected by a spectrometer with 4CCD. Multiple measurements were taken for each sample in order to meet the relative standard deviation (RSD) 3%. Elemental Si was applied as the internal standard, because the content of Si in white nephrite is almost invariable. By doing this, the intensity ratios of IBe/ISi and IAl/ISi can directly represent the contents of element Be and Al in samples. The results indicate that the IBe/ISi ratios of Xinjiang samples are high, ranging from 0.3 to 0.6, with IAl/ISi ratios of 0.1 to 0.4. The Qinghai samples had the most obvious features of very low Be and Al, such as the IBe/ISi ratios being lower than 0.1 and IAl/ISi ratios lower than 0.2. The Russian samples had two different distribution areas. IBe/ISi ratios of some samples were higher than 0.7, indicating high levels of Be. However, some IAl/ISi ratios were between 0.1 and 0.5, which were slightly lower than the Xinjiang samples with a little overlap. The experimental results show that elemental Be and Al, especially elemental Be have an obvious origin character The laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy had a good application value for nephrite source region identification.