Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #16 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Larimar meaning, including: Larimar for abundance & love Harmonising water & fire elements with Larimar Larimar for healing your inner child Full Moon in Cancer & Larimar   Tune in now for a deeper look at Larimar meaning!   Podcast Transcript: Crystal Confab Podcast Intro: Are you just starting with crystals? Or maybe you have a whole collection but aren't sure how to use them? Join 4 crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for a casual chat about all things crystals.   Kyle Perez: Hello and welcome to another Crystal Confab, where I get to be with some of my favorite people on the planet, talking about my favorite thing on the planet, crystals, minerals, gemstones, and all of that good stuff. Today I'm of course joined j by Adam Barralet, Ashley Leavey, and Nicholas Pearson, and we're going to talk about arguably the most famous or infamous modern crystal mineral of especially the esoteric world, larimar, the beautiful wavy blue pectolite that I'm gonna show you some beautiful pieces of now. This is a really lovely slice of the beautiful Laramar, and this is a beautiful piece where you can actually see the outside of where it was formed. It forms in these beautiful volcanic bugs. And before we dive into it properly, we're going to talk a little bit about sustainability, and I think it's really important with Larimar, and I'm going to open it to the floor of my friends.   Who wants to dive in first on this interesting topic of sustainability in gemstones especially related to Larimar.   Ashley Leavy: I'll have a go. So when it comes to any crystals and minerals, we were kind of talking before the show about the importance of, you know, discussing ethical sourcing, And that's kind of the first thing I wanna hit on here. And I think that this term ethically sourced is something that we have just seen. People are using a broad brush to paint this idea of ethical sourcing. You'll see, you know, dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of Instagram pages and Etsy shops and everything saying ethically sourced minerals or consciously sourced minerals.   And what does that really mean? Because there's no regulation on this phrase. There's no governing body to determine what ethically sourced really means. So when people are using this phrase, don't just take that at face value, dig in a little bit more. In my eyes, there are 4 key components that we have to consider when we're looking at whether or not a mineral is ethically sourced, and there's like a 5th bonus one that I'll tell you about too.   So first, are workers paid fairly for their labor? That's a big one because a lot of the time, they are not. 2nd, are workers operating in safe working conditions? And that's one that my colleagues here will pick up specifically in this conversation about Larimar because it's really important to know. So are workers paid fairly and are they working in safe conditions?   3rd, is any child labor used to collect those minerals? Because this is something that, again, we see very frequently. 4th, what is the environmental impact of that sourcing? The answer is it's never gonna be 0. So we need to look at what we are okay with and what are we not?   Are there reclamation efforts? What is the extent to which there is environmental impact? Does it affect the ecosystem, the plants, the wildlife in the area? Is there, you know, toxic runoff? There are so many things to consider when we're looking at environmental impact and this is why in some countries they're starting to roll out more and more environmental impact studies before mining rights are granted, which is great.   We're seeing a little bit of a trend that way. So those are the four things that I kind of look for at a minimum. All those boxes have to be ticked to my satisfactio...