Larimar
The Dominican Republic 's Ministry of
Mining records show that on 23 November 1916 Father Miguel Domingo Fuertes
Loren of the Barahona Parish requested permission to explore
and exploit the mine of a certain blue rock he had discovered.Pectolites were not yet known in the Dominican Republic
and the request was rejected.[2]
In 1974, at the foot
of the Bahoruco Range, the coastal province of Barahona , Miguel Méndez and Peace Corps volunteer Norman Rilling rediscover Larimar on a beach. Natives, who
believed the stone came from the sea, called the gem Blue Stone. Miguel took his
young daughter's name Larissa and the Spanish word for sea (mar) and formed Larimar, by the colors of the
water of the Caribbean Sea , where it was
found. The few stones they found were alluvial sediment, washed into the sea by the Bahoruco River.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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