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Māori communities have long used the stone, which is strong and durable, in tools and weapons. Given its rarity, pounamu is also worn as jewelry and gifted.
“Everything I create, it’s going to last forever,” head carver and lead artist Tamaroa Walker, of Rotorua ’s Mountain Jade, says. Pounamu specialist Moutain.
The Rotorua business awards were held last night in a glitzy ceremony at the Energy Events Centre, where Mountain Jade was crowned supreme overall winner..