Collection: Dolomite

The particularity of Dolomite lies in its very atypical mixture of colors.
You may encounter red, white, gray, yellow and brown hues.
The mineral was first discovered in 1779. It was a mineralogist known as Giovanni Arduino who immediately noticed these peculiarities that distinguish the stone from limestone.

This discovery was made in the Tyrolean Alps, but it was not until the intervention of Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, a Frenchman, who identified the stone and listed it for the first time.

To obtain a Dolomite, it is necessary to promote the formation of corals, shells and algae in a marine environment. Dating back 250 million years, warm and shallow seas were particularly suitable for the formation of the stone. This makes it possible to form the stone known today with a topology that was totally different from today.

If we look at Dolomite, we see that it contains a high concentration of magnesium and calcium carbonate.
Belonging to the hexagonal crystal family, it has a hardness of around 4 on the Mohs scale.