A three-thousand-pound jade boulder that was stolen back in December is now back on display at its home in Cache Creek.

Taken from out front of the Cariboo Jade and Gifts shop in a daring heist involving an excavator on the back of a flatbed truck – the prized rock was recovered days later after it was ditched by thieves in a field.

Shop owner Heidi Roy says the boulder sat in storage for months while they figured out what to do with it.

“We were a little reluctant to put it back out front…we were just gonna not bother,” she said on the NL Noon Report. “It [was] hanging out in a heavily secured storage area while we decided what to do with it.”

But she also says – people were asking about it – and apparently missing it.

“We found there was one area in the front window underneath where there was concrete so it could withstand the weight of the boulder but it was getting it through the doors and over there was the challenge because it had to go across wooden trusses,” Roy said.

“So we had to get that checked out that it would hold and then we had to get it reinforced with plywood.”

The boulder had adorned the front of the shop since Heidi’s father, Ben, bought it back in 1985.

“There was really no other way to secure it outside. It was cemented in originally and although everybody had tips and suggestions on different cages and chains and all these ideas on what we could do, none of them really seemed practical so we thought what if we tried moving it inside,” she added.

“That is easier said than done when you’re talking three-thousand-pounds.”

Roy says police have concluded their investigation, and while suspects have been identified, no charges are being laid at this time.