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Aotea: The Stone That Kept Its Name

Aotea: The Stone That Kept Its Name

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In 1906, visitors to New Zealand’s West Coast encountered a striking green stone and confidently called it malachite. Others later called it amazonite. Neither name was right. Follow the old newspaper reports, river valleys and geological investigations that revealed Aotea as a rare rock of fuchsite, kyanite and quartz, and uncover a story of mistaken identities, surviving names and deep geological history written into stone.

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