🟦Larimar is a new variety of gemstone that contains copper needles and sodalite. The English name “Larimar” is derived from the Spanish name for the sea, “mar”, and is known as the “heart of the sea”. It is the national gemstone of the Dominican Republic. It is unique and fascinating with its blue and white texture and its blue-green and white water formations. Larimar grows in the crevices and holes in the volcanic rock, due to the limited scope of the mine and the difficulty of human mining, so the production is also very rare, and has a very high collector’s value.

🟦Larimar was first discovered and utilized by the indigenous Indians of the Caribbean islands. Local residents believe that this beautiful stone can bring people health and good luck, but also to protect their families from disease and disaster, and believe that this is the legendary Atlantis Empire’s legacy of the stone. So Larimar also has the meaning of health and good luck.
🔹Category: Silicate Mineral
🔹Chemical composition: copper-containing needle sodalite
🔹Chemical formula: NaCa2Si308(0H)
🔹Crystal system: Triclinic crystal system
🔹Refractive index: 1.59~1.63
🔹Specific gravity: 2.84~2.90
🔹Hardness: 4.5~5.0
🔹Place of origin: Dominica
🔹Color: white, light blue, blue-green to dark blue

✅Colors of Larimar
🔵It is possible that the blue coloration of Larimar is caused by the presence of traces of copper and vanadium in the mineral itself, and as its coloration takes on a bluer hue, the higher the price. The rarest variety, known as volcanic blue, is worth a considerable amount of money. The sky blue color of Larimar is the most popular color on the market and is the favorite color of fine jewelry and collectors. Apart from that, Larimar sometimes has a greenish tint, but this color is less popular in the market.

• 🔷Color types: dark blue, greenish blue, sky blue, light sky blue, white
• 🔷Type of grain: large turtleback grain, turtleback grain, wave grain, lightning grain, jade seed grain.
• 🔷Degree of jadeization: no jadeization, half jadeization, full jadeization, ice seed jadeization, high ice jadeization.

✅Origin of Larimar
🔵To date, the only source of Larimar in the world is the Dominican Republic, and it is also the country’s national stone, with very rare production. The main reason for this is that the stone is found in crevices or holes in the volcanic rock, where it is not easy to find, and large sizes are rare, and the percentage of raw stones that can be processed into gemstones is also very low.

✅Causes of Larimar
🔵Larima is the product of hydrothermal action, that is, the high-temperature liquid emitted by volcanic activity is cooled and crystallized, so it is more common in some igneous rocks, often with zeolite, botrite, calcite and other symbiosis, which exists in many places around the world. Under normal circumstances, sphaerite is colorless, white, pale pink or pale green crystals, and blue crystals are extremely rare.
🔵Some scholars believe that the cause of the azure color of Larimar may be the mineral itself contains traces of copper, vanadium elements, and sometimes may also be accompanied by red or brown (containing iron components) or gray inclusions impurities, when the more its color shows a blue tint, the higher the value, as if the sea on the surface of the shimmering sea lines.

✅Selection of Larimar
👇You can start from the clarity, color, grain, crystal four points:

• 🔵Clarity: Unlike diamonds, Larimar does not require perfect clarity, but focuses on purity, meaning that it should be free of any foreign impurities, flaws and cracks. Gemstone surface without cracks, no impurities, no mottling, no green, no black is of high quality.
• 🔵Color: From blue to green value is from high to low, close to the aquamarine aquamarine color value is very high, with green tones of the value of the general.
• 🔵Grain: Lalima in the cooling process will produce ripple pattern. Generally speaking, the clearer the grain, the more shaped the pattern, the higher the value of the Larimar.
• 🔵Crystals: Jade Larimar has a unique translucency, and the backlight can see the translucency phenomenon is of high quality.

✅The wearing effect of Larimar
🔵Calming the mind:Larimar believed to have a calming and soothing effect, helping to reduce feelings of stress and anxiety.
🔵Promote communication: Larimar is believed to stimulate the energy of the larynx chakra, helping to enhance communication skills and making people express themselves more clearly and confidently.
🔵Improve intuition: Some people believe that Larimar can develop intuition and insight to help people better understand themselves and others.
🔵Attract good luck: Larimar is considered a gem with good luck, attracting positive energy and improving fortune.
🔵Enhance relationships: Wearing Larimar can enhance interpersonal relationships, promote family harmony, and is a gem that is beneficial to intimate relationships.

🌟Salesmen are suitable to wear Larimar , Larimar stone has a corresponding throat chakra, it can help salesmen to attract different types of customers and frequency, and help to attract friends and noblemen.