There are many beautiful amber nuggets on the market. They come from amber fishermen, mines, sellers or collectors. But there is also a lot of imitations sold as natural stones, often at very high prices. Dishonest sellers can easily … Read More
Amber is never found in accidental forms or shapeless. Amber was produced by resin secretions both inside and outside the tree-trunk. Natural amber forms depended on: where the resin seeped from – inside or outside the tree what form … Read More
Large inclusions are rarely found in amber, because animals either managed to escape from the sticky trap, or other predators took them out as an tasty morsel. The largest inclusions recorded to date are very rare reptiles like lizards … Read More
People explained the origin of amber with many legends and myths. Scientists and sages held their own theories: ninus (king of Assyria 13th century BC?) Amber is the concentrate of sun rays washed ashore by the sea. Assurabi (king of … Read More
The white colour of amber is caused by microscopic gas bubbles (or water particles) with diameter 0.0008-0.001 mm encapsulated inside the resin during its hardening process (fossilisation). Their number reaches 900,000 per 1 mm2 of polished surface. This is … Read More
Most Baltic amber is found in Eocene glauconite deposits, known as blue earth. Significant deposits are located under the bottom of the Bay of Gdańsk, on the Sambia Peninsula (Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), in eastern Poland (Lublin Region), eastern Germany … Read More
The English name for amber is derived from the Arabic word anbar, originally used to describe ambergris. The Polish name for amber (bursztyn) is derived from the German word Bernstein, meaning a stone that burns. Slavic and Baltic languages trace … Read More
The Baltic is a young sea that formed after the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago. On the other hand, Baltic amber formed in the Eocene Age, over 40 million years earlier. Today, the Baltic Sea … Read More
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