Larimar Ring / Cabochon / new- 3.34 g - (1)

Ring Larimar / Cabochon / new

Set in 925 sterling silver

Weight: 3.34 g

14.6 mm x 12.8 mm

New and unworn

Ring size:

U 57
UK P 1/2
US 8.0
Fr 17
Inner diameter: 18.1 mm

Larimar is a blue-white variegated variety of pectolite, which has so far been found in only two locations: in a metamorphosed ultrabasic volcanic rock on the Barahona Peninsula in the Dominican Republic and at the “Fittà” near Soave in Italy. Larimar has nothing to do with the blue amber that also occurs on Hispaniola, which is processed in the same facilities in Puerto Plata in the same manner as pectolite.

Larimar was only discovered in 1974 (the claim that Larimar was already known to the island’s indigenous inhabitants is a legend) and has been commercially used as a gemstone since the early 1980s. Compared with white pectolite, Larimar is harder (up to 6 on the Mohs scale) and occurs exclusively in dense, fine-crystalline aggregates. The sky-blue color is due to trace amounts of vanadium (not to copper, since there are copper-free Larimar specimens); there are also greenish varieties, whose color presumably results only from lattice defects.

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