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Pounamu
Pounamu
refers to several types of hard, durable and highly valued
nephrite jade
,
bowenite
, or
serpentinite
stone found in southern
New Zealand
. Pounamu is the
Maori
name. These rocks are also generically known as "
greenstone
" in
New Zealand English
.
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