Story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
There is quite a variety of pounamu types. Clockwise from top left: kawakawa (nephrite); a darker variety of nephrite from Westland; īnanga (nephrite) from Westland; tangiwai (bowenite).
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Photograph by Russell Beck
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