 Amber
is the fossilized resin at a tree
(believed to be Hymenaea Courberil, still extant).
Most Dominican amber is from the lower early Miocene, and is
between 20-25 millions years old. The main mines are
underground hand workings located in the mountains between
Puerto Plata and Santiago.
Dominican amber, which is considered amongst the finest,
combines excellent transparency wit h
lovely color tones: yellows, oranges, reds, browns, blacks,
gold, silver, whites, greens, blue - same rarer, some more
common, some clearly visible, ethers extremely subtle.
Frequently insects, vegetation and even animals got trapped
in the sticky, hardening amber, and bear silent witness to
primeval ages. Preservation is often perfect and it is
uncanny to hold, and behold something that existed an
inconceivably long time.
Some of there fossils are very rare and valuable. Amber is
credited with healing properties and an amber gift is
supposed to bring fortune to the recipient Amber's Greek
name is Elektron and electricity was first discovered by
rubbing it All our modem electricity and electronics started
with... AMBER. |
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