Talk:Larimar

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Cut a bunch of redundancy and blatant hype. Wikipedia is not an advertising medium. Vsmith 13:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow. I'm gone for a few month from the entry I originally wrote and it's gone through some massive changes. Comes to show how Wiki truly works: both good and bad. Some unknowns add metaphisical crap, others add commercial links, and so forth. The only sad thing left to say is that one works hard doing the research to write an original Wiki article with all the details, only to have some wannabe editor cut it down to the bones. Oh well. Such is life. --The Singularity 05:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I take the 'wannabe editor' back. Vsmith claims to be a geologist and has done some improvements to the article. Unfortunately he has also put in some errors and deleted some very useful information. Typical high school teacher ;-) Other than that, okay job keeping it clean. --The Singularity 05:58, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

This article needs a cleanup.
I don't like this article one bit, especially the part about the discovery/origins of Larimar. It reads like an advertisement. Furthermore it seems to be completely uncited. Drnathanfurious 06:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I hadn't noticed that. Actually I had hoped that someone would correct that by now. I'll see what I can do. --The Singularity (talk) 19:13, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I remember now why citations are missing: most online information on Larimar stems from commercial sites and are therefor disqualify as references. Let's see what else is out there... --The Singularity (talk) 19:16, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

I've just edited the geology section to clarify that the blue color in larimar is due to copper, not cobalt. The Winter 1989 issue of Gems & Gemology includes an article on larimar I'll include as citation ... But I'm brand new to this so I need to figure out how to do that. Only source I can find that lists cobalt is on showcaves.com/English/car/mines/Filipinas.html. And even the resources listed ther say it's copper, not cobalt. I'll be reading through gem, jewelry, and mineralogy articles, so you may see more from me soon! BethCarter (talk) 02:37, 1 January 2012 (UTC)


 * If copper replaced calcium, doesn't the chemical formula need to be updated? -75.73.216.148 (talk) 01:25, 20 December 2022 (UTC)