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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
