Directory of Amber Resources

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Amber is the fossilized resin of trees. It is generally a golden brown color, very low density, and may or may not contain fossil inclusions such as trapped plant material, insects, or other small animals.

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Subcategories

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Resources in This Category

• Alfred Correya's Baltic Amber Collection

  http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/Neil/Amber/amber.htm
  Pictures of insect inclusions from a collection acquired by the Hunterian Museum.

• Amberica West

  http://www.ambericawest.com/
  Offers general information about amber and amber mining. Includes a discussion about recognizing fake amber.

• Baltic Amber

  http://www.amber-ambre-inclusions.info/INGLESE.htm
  Provides some notes on Baltic amber, a resin produced some 30 to 40 million years ago by the now extinct pine tree, Pinus succinifera.

• Blue Amber Information

  http://www.blueamber.info/
  Information portal for Dominican Blue Amber, where and how it is mined, why it is blue and its uses.

• Dead Bugs in Amber

  http://snakefly.tripod.com/index-2.html
  Large list of amber resources.

• Fossil Amber

  http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Tree_of_Life/FossilAmber.htm
  Amber is the perfect fossil preservative. This article discusses its inclusions, chemistry, goegraphic dispersion and the distinction between amber and copal.

• Fossil Amber with Inclusions of Insects and other Organisms

  http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Galleries/FossilAmber.htm
  Provides a gallery of photographs of unwary invertebrates.

• Galleria di Fossilizzazioni in Ambra

  http://www.comune.pisa.it/apsn/Articoli/Lacrime/Ambre.htm
  Photographs of invertebrates trapped in amber with the provenance of each.

• Gintaro Galerija Muziejus

  http://www.ambergallery.lt/
  Museum of Baltic amber featuring exhibits of jewelry and art. [English and Lithuanian]

• Identifying True Amber (Succinite)

  http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/trueamber.shtml
  Article by Garry Platt describing the tests that can be done to differentiate between true amber and fakes.

• Swedish Amber Museum

  http://www.brost.se/
  Choice of English version.

 

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