Yeah, right that's what I thought when I saw the phrase but apparently it's real!
We stopped at Marlborough to have lunch. As usual once we stopped, I checked my phone to see if there were any caches near by. Yep there was one and an earth cache within 100m.
The earth cache was about Aussie Jade and there was a big lump of it in a sheltered cage in the park. It is called crytslaprase, maybe the spelling is not quite right. It is mined about 20kms away, owned by a private company. There is nickel in the soil which helps to give the colour. Most of it is mined, packed in drums and sent/sold to Hong Kong to be made into jewellery.
I certainly did not know that there was such a thing in Australia.
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