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Kōrero: Pounamu – jade or greenstone

Varieties of pounamu

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Varieties of pounamu

These sawn pounamu boulders illustrate how the appearance of pounamu can vary from one stone to the next.

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Private collection

by Simon Nathan

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Basil Keane, Pounamu – jade or greenstone – The origins of pounamu, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9358/varieties-of-pounamu (accessed 16 July 2026).

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