The Great Amber Illusion: The Truth Behind the Myth
🔬 Collector Quick-Fact While the Baltic region controls 90% of global extractable fossil resin reserves, mass-market Baltic amber undergoes extensive…
Are Beehives Ever Found in Amber? The Dominican Fossil That Proves Science Wrong.
🔬 Collector Quick-Fact The discovery of a Miocene-epoch honeycomb fossil in Dominican amber challenges the conventional paleontological consensus that bee…
Grading and Authenticity of Dominican Blue Amber
Grading and Authenticity of Dominican Blue Amber: Why Flawless is a Red Flag Dominican blue amber is graded based on…
Dominican Amber: Inside the Hand-Crafted Mining Trade
🔬 Collector Quick-Fact The extraction of Dominican amber is strictly legally limited to manual methods following a complete ban on…
Dominican amber: a window into the ancient past – Dominican Amber Inclusions
Dominican amber: a window into the ancient past Dominican amber is prized for the extraordinary diversity and quality of its…
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Why the Amber World Is Moving Away from Industrialized Pieces
Why the Amber World Is Moving Away from Industrialized Pieces 🔬 Collector Quick-Fact The global luxury market’s shift toward unmanipulated…
What Causes the Blue Color in Dominican Amber?
by Alec Corday Why is Dominican Blue Amber blue, you ask? Or is it? (We wrote about it in this…
The Value of Protection in Dominican Amber Mining
🔬 Collector Quick-Fact Artisanal amber extraction in the Dominican Republic is concentrated in the steep, geologically vulnerable clay layers of…
Is Dominican Blue Amber BLUE?
Is Blue Amber truly blue? No. It is not. And yet, it is. Confused? We know that it is a…
New World Amber – The Discovery
🔬 Collector Quick-Fact Dominican amber is an unclarified, 100% natural fossilized resin originating from the extinct legume tree Hymenaea protera…
The History of Natural Amber
Natural amber is considered an organic gem stone. Amber has been traded since earliest times and was considered a mystic…
How Amber is Enhanced – Old World Amber
Natural Baltic amber is very attractive, when it is kept as natural amber. There is radiant honey color, yellow, deep…
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How to Spot Fake Amber Fossils: A Guide to Real Inclusions and Market Scams
Collector Quick-Fact Natural amber inclusions are defined as authentic, prehistoric…
The Four Forms of Amber: What Happens When Humans Meddle with Fossil Resin
When you look at amber through the lens of a…
Why Can’t You Find Dominican Butterscotch Amber?
I see this question pop up all the time in…
