Larimar Ring / Cabochon / new- 3.85 g - (1)

Ring Larimar / Cabochon / new

Set in 925 sterling silver

Weight: 3.85 g

16.0 mm x 9.3 mm

New and unworn

Ring size:

U 54
UK N
US 6.8
Fr 14
Inner diameter: 17.2 mm

Larimar is a blue‑white marbled variety of pectolite, detected so far at only two localities: in a metamorphosed ultrabasic volcanite 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, which also occurs on Hispaniola and is sometimes processed in the same facilities in Puerto Plata and in the same way as pectolite.

Larimar was only discovered in 1974 (the claim that Larimar was already 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 verifiably copper-free Larimars); greenish varieties also occur, whose color is presumably due only to lattice defects.

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