This beautiful pendant is one solid cab piece measuring 22mm x 19mm. There is a round cut blue topaz 6mm and a smaller 2mm white topaz.

It is new, never worn. The weight is 14gr.

The bale is perfect for a larger chain or cord.

I’m happy to combine shipping with other items in my store.

Larimar: Dominican Republic’s Unique Gemstone, Larimar, a rare blue variety of mineral pectolite. Why? Because this semi-precious gemstone is only found in the Dominican Republic! Larimar doesn’t naturally occur in any other country globally, and there is a ban on exporting it in a raw form.

What Is Larimar?

Larimar is a rare gemstone, and its color can vary from white, light-blue, green-blue to deep-blue. The secret to Larimar’s unique beauty is Copper, which gets “trapped” inside the gemstone during its formation and enhances Larimar’s striking color. This is also why the gemstone’s surface is a complicated maze of interconnecting lines and circles, which we believe looks like the waves on Cabarete Beach!

Also known as the Dolphin Stone and Stefilia’s Stone, Larimar was first discovered in 1916 by Father Miguel Domingo Fuertes Loren of the Barahona Parish. He requested permission to explore the mine in which he found an unusual blue rock (you guessed it, it was Larimar!), but his request was denied. It was not until 1974 that Miguel Mendez rediscovered Larimar while taking a beach walk. Charmed by the gemstone’s beauty, Mendez took his daughter’s name, “Larissa,” and the Spanish word mar, the sea, to form “Larimar.”

To clarify, the gemstone doesn’t actually come from the sea. Larimar that Mendez found was one of the few stones washed into the sea from rocky outcrops, which later became the Los Chupaderos mine.