The Rock Professor is a resource center for the products you purchase. Information is given on handy product cards which can be cut out and displayed with your purchased item. And whether you purchase from us or not, you're welcome to print and use these cards.
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The Rock Professor has provided you with a mineral
information card. Print on stock paper, and cut out to
enhance your rock and mineral products.
To print: with your cursor, highlight the entire card below,
right click and select print, then click on "selection"
and print.
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LARIMAR
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LARIMAR is a rare blue variety of pectolite (calcium-sodium silicate) found only in the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Since being officially discovered in 1974 by Miguel Méndez and Peace Corps volunteer Norman Rilling, the beautiful stone has been extracted from volcanic tubes or chimneys where it was formed. Pectolite is found in a variety of locations, however none have the volcanic blue coloration of LARIMAR which owes its beautiful color to copper.
Miguel Méndez named the new mineral LARIMAR for his daughter Larissa and for "mar"- Spanish for "sea".
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Chemistry: calcium-sodium silicate ♦
Color: colorless, white, gray, pale blue, intense blue ♦
Luster: vitreous to silky ♦ Transparency: translucent to opaque ♦
Crystal Form: triclinic system ♦ Cleavage: basal cleavage ♦
Moh's hardness: 5 ♦ Localities: Dominican Republic
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