Larimar Ring / Cabochon / new- 3.5 g - (1)

Ring Larimar / Cabochon / new

Set in 925. Sterling silver

Weight: 3.50 g

14.5 mm x 12.6 mm

New and unworn

Ring size:

U 56 - 57 (sits exactly between)
UK P - P 1/2
US 7.8
Fr 16 - 17
Inner diameter: 17.95 mm


Larimar is a blue-white veined variety of pectolite that has so far been detected only at two localities: in altered 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 also occurring on Hispaniola, which is processed in the same facilities in Puerto Plata and in the same manner as pectolite.

Larimar was discovered only in 1974 (the idea that Larimar was known to the island’s indigenous people 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 copper, as there are copper-free Larimar varieties); there are also greenish varieties whose color presumably results from lattice defects.

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