Larimar

Larissa y el mar — a daughter and the sea

Provenance: Barahona, Dominican Republic — one mountainside on Earth
Mineral family: Blue pectolite — volcanic, copper-tinted
Hardness: Mohs 4.5–5 — worn with care
Energy: Calm — The shallow-water frequency — sun through three feet of sea.

Larimar exists in exactly one place: a single volcanic slope above the Caribbean, found in 1974 by Miguel Méndez, who welded his daughter’s name to the Spanish word for sea. The pattern is the one you see looking down through calm shallows. When this mountainside is done, there is no second source.

“Named for a daughter and the sea — Larissa, y el mar.”Miguel Méndez · Barahona, 1974

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