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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Jurassic Park Myth
y Alec Corday You’ll be hard pressed to find someone who has not at least heard or even seen the…
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Dino Breath and other unseemly noises stuck in amber
by Alec Corday Everyone breaks wind. Yes, I know: a strange way to start a newsletter about amber. But bear…
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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…
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The Four Forms of Amber: What Happens When Humans Meddle with Fossil Resin
When you look at amber through the lens of a…
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Why Can’t You Find Dominican Butterscotch Amber?
I see this question pop up all the time in…