Jade deposits in Orient
Aside from the deposits in Turkestan and Burma, only a few other small occurrences have been noted for all the Orient. Scattered through the Pacific area there are some deposits of jade, and jade artifacts have been discovered widely scattered over the area. A deposit of nephrite exists on New Caledonia. Jadeite is found in place in the Celebes, and even chloromelanite occurs in New Guinea. Jade is perfect 3 stone ring.
The Maoris, when they arrived in their great migration to New Zealand in about the fourteenth century, quickly discovered durable nephrite in several places. Deposits they worked were found primarily on Mount Cook and elsewhere on the South Island. They called the nephrite pounamou, a word which literally means “green stone,” but also connotes value. Most of the jade was a dark green and none of it was ever plentiful. The export of unworked jade from New Zealand has now been prohibited, so that this source adds nothing to the world supply.