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Episode 3 · 5 minutes 2 seconds New

Why Is Larimar Blue? Vanadium, Iron and Light

Published on YouTube 18 October 2026

A buyer once asked us, jokingly, if it’s even legal in nature for a stone to be this blue. Larimar looks unreal, yet it’s completely natural, and the reason it’s so blue isn’t the one you’ve probably heard.

In this episode we follow the science: why copper was the suspect for decades, why the blue follows the vanadium, why some Larimar turns green, where the red plumes come from, and how the fibres and the light draw the white waves, from translucency to chatoyancy.

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  1. Too blue to be real?
  2. A white mineral
  3. The copper suspect
  4. A pinch of vanadium
  5. Green from the wall
  6. Red plumes, copper stars
  7. Light does the rest

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

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