BAHORUCO, Dominican Republic – The men in ragged clothes, many barefoot and covered in grime, scramble deep into the earth, searching for veins of a blue-green stone believed to exist only in the ...

If I were to select my favorite stone for jewelry and for color, it would definitely be larimar. Do you know it? It’s a gemstone of the blue variety, made of the mineral pectolite and mined only in ...