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Kōrero: Pounamu – jade or greenstone

Te apu pounamu

Unauthorised greenstone mining

Ko Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Wood me ētahi pounamu tāhae i kitea i Wanaka. E toru ngā taraka kī ana i te pounamu, ka hia miriona tāra tōna wāriu. Nā te Ngāi Tahu (Pounamu Vesting Act) o te tau 1997 ka riro te mana ki te pounamu i te taiao o Te Wai Pounamu ki a Ngāi Tahu.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Otago Daily Times

Reference: 5 May 2004

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Basil Keane, Pounamu – jade or greenstone – Modern stone work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7704/te-apu-pounamu (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Basil Keane, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.

Comments

Rob Nicholl
22 October 2010
Your web site acknowledges that large scale theft of pounamu has occurred yet you display a piece of that stone that was the product of those thefts. The contemporary piece you display is snowflake pounamu, stolen by Hutton or the Saxtons. Rob Nicholl, Licenced Private Investigator for Ngai Tahu