Axestone

Axestone, a variety of the mineral Jade or Nephrite (q.v.). It is of a greenish, grayish, or grayish-white colour, is more or less translucent, hard, tough, and not easily broken. It occurs in Silesia, in Central Asia and China, and in New Zealand and other islands of the Southern Pacific. It derives its name from the use to which it is put by the natives of these islands for making their hatchets. They also make eardrops of it.