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🧚♂️Some Fresh stock ready🧚 Kawakawa stone will be in display on Waiheke Island over the holidays !!! Don't miss the Christmas eve and New Year's eve markets !!!
Where is Nephrite Jade found? New Zealand, Canada, USA, Australia, China, Russia, Korea, Yemen, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Turkey, Switzerland. Can you name any others?
How is Pounamu / Jade found ? Jade can be found in a number ways depending on which stage of the natural process it is in. In situ - This stone is still attached to the reef, some of these reefs are exposed and visible to the eye, while others are covered by soil and bedrock. Mining, when done on a commercial level, requires machinery, large core drills and wire saws. Jade has only been mined in this way for commercial purposes and is most common in Canada. Alluvial - Once the stone has come free from the reef it will travel, depending on the landscape, either across the plains by the glaciation or down the rivers in the moving water. These stones over time stretching thousands of years can develop oxidation. This is where lots of the stones with orange or red skin can come from. As the oxygen eats away at the stone, the colours will change and some of the well known characteristics will appear. These stones can range in size to being able to fit in your hand to being as big as a semi truck. Seed - In some cultures this stone is the most prized of them all, the top quality seed jade has no skin, and is pure the entire way through with the same flawless consistency throughout. This type of stone was most commonly used along with much of the Alluvial jade by the indiginous people of New Zealand due to its availability pre machine era. These stones are found in the rivers and on the beaches where the jade bearing rivers connect to the Tasman Sea. Though some of the rarer stones can be homogeneous, single colour and pure or close to without grain, others offer a variety of textures, colours, skins and inclusions depending on the quality of the stone when it was formed. - Nick Spicer Balme
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