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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 organisms preserved within fully polymerized fossilized tree resin, maintaining a…
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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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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 History of Natural Amber
Natural amber is considered an organic gem stone. Amber has been traded since earliest times and was considered a mystic…
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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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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…