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Episode 1 · 8 minutes 37 seconds New

The Only Larimar Deposit on Earth: Hand-Dug, Deep Underground

Published on YouTube 16 October 2026

Larimar isn’t found on the beach. It comes from one mountainside in Barahona, in the south-west of the Dominican Republic, and from shafts dug by hand deep inside it.

In this first episode we take you from the air to the bottom of a working shaft, and show you Larimar in the rock, exactly as nature left it.

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  1. Not from the beach
  2. Where Larimar comes from
  3. The approach
  4. Into the mountain
  5. The descent
  6. Underground
  7. At the face
  8. The find
  9. Blue gold
  10. From the source

Narration: synthetic voice. All footage is real and unaltered: no AI imagery.

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