The Dominican Republic wants jewelers to love larimar, the national stone. But authorities shut the mine temporarily after two fatal accidents. The inspiration for Joarla Caridad’s Pool Ring wit ...

BAHORUCO, Dominican Republic – The men in ragged clothes, many barefoot and covered in grime, scramble deep into the earth, searching for veins of a blue-green stone believed to exist only in ...

BAHORUCO, Dominican Republic (AP) – The men in ragged clothes, many barefoot and covered in grime, scramble deep into the earth, searching for veins of a blue-green stone believed to exist only ...