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Kōrero: Gemstones

Hydrogrossular

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Hydrogrossular

These pebbles are of translucent hydrogrossular from Gemstone Beach at Orepuki in Southland, showing the range of colour in this mineral. It can be worked effectively, as shown by the carved examples, prepared by Russell Beck.

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Private collection

by Russell Beck

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jocelyn Thornton, Gemstones – Other gemstones, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5126/hydrogrossular (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jocelyn Thornton, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.