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The pectolite, formerly denominated "ratholite", is an acid silicate hydrate of calcium and sodium.
Of ample diffusion in the world, we can find deposits of this mineral, known as outcrop, at very
distant places of the planet: The United States (Michigan, Arkansas, New Jersey, California),
Canada, England (Scotland), India, Austria (Tyrolia), among others. They have in fact been results
and consequences of this volcanic Earth activity, many million years ago.

This gemstone first surfaced in 1974, although the inhabitants of the region and their
ancestors have long been aware of the stone

Legend has it that they used to simply collect these stones on the beach, but one day they
couldn't find anymore. They went to explore upstream, and came upon a rock formation that
seemed to be the source of this blue precious stone.

The name Larimar was given to the stone by a Dominican, Miguel Méndez, who combined his
daughter's name LARIssa, with MAR, the Spanish word for sea. The stone is also called the
Atlantis Stone, since a wise prophet once claimed that the Dominican Republic was part of the
lost continent of Atlantis, an association that has been affirmed by various spiritual and
metaphysical authorities.

Because of the high temperature affecting the incandescent masses that had been pushed by the
gases of the interior, the crystallization of some materials took place. When the volcanic lava was
cooling off in the chimney, it became columns as a firm support of a mass in which blue andesites,
pectolites, basalts and other minerals formed. The dark and gray ashes in the tube, chimney or
column, showed a strong contrast with the color of the other materials.

So, by the end of the Miocene, the rocks layed exposed on limestone. The process of erosion
and meteorization, as a result of the meteorological conditions (water, wind, temperature...),
fractured and moved some rock fragments into the bed of the Bahoruco river, and from
here, the waters took them to the coasts of the sea. Because of their color and for having
recieved a polishing by friction, they caused much attention as blue pectolites rocks or
larimar.

As the magma or incandescent parts of the interior of the planet were pushed towards outside, the
masses became visible on the terrestrial crust and, when cooling off, would give origin to the rock
bulk.
The chemical components of these incandescent solutions were very diverse. The minerals in form
of
silicates stood out and were mixed with aluminum components, as well as sodium, calcium, iron,
etc....
forming therefore essential and secondary minerals. Among all this chemical package, an association
which is very little frequent in nature, formed itself: silicium-oxygenate with sodic and calcic
elements.

Thus they formed randomly in suitable proportions compact concretions of small masses, which had
some
brightness and manifold color variaties which are known in geology by the name of pectolites. This
name
was given by the German geologist Kobell in 1828 as he joined the Greek words pektos ("something
formed by different parts") and lithos ("rock"). The pectolite is, therefore, a secondary rock.

The vulcanic process, could move over the years incandescent masses to the surface that changed
the
rocks that already had formed there. Limestone rocks started to build up on top of them, but the
hot gases and the concentrated fire perforated the rocks creating true tubular chimneys.