A group of 152 Authentic Polished Fossil Dominican Rough
Amber Stones
weighing 506 grams in total or 1.1 pounds
each stone has at least 1 fossil inclusion, many stones have multiple
inclusions
these are fossil amber stones inclusions include hemiptera, tipulids,
various diptera, beetles, psocoptera, enhydros, and parasitic wasps
A101 DRGroup152
$1,700.00 No Reserve
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Dominican Amber In the Dominican Republic, Hymenaea trees are called Algorrobo. The Hymenaea tree exudes vast amounts of resin which over millions of years of pressure hardens into amber. Generally amber is found because a landslide along a steep slope in the mountains exposes veins of black lignite. If the lignite contains amber it is gradually extracted by digging along the vein with picks and shovels. After the amber is found it is chiseled by hand out of the shaft walls, put into burlap sacks and passed out of the mine where it is separated from the rock by machete. Larger chunks of amber make it possible to view inclusions almost immediately by holding the amber up to sunlight to determine if a large inclusion has been discovered. Fossil bearing amber is polished locally. |
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Some photos of our amber excavations in the Southern US in 2017 and the Dominican Republic June 2014 and March 2016
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Some photos of our amber excavations in the Dominican Republic March 2014
Some photos of our last amber excavations in the Dominican Republic September 2012
Some photos of our last amber excavations in Asia January 2010 (new top secret location for now)
Some photos of our amber excavations in August 2007 at La Toca and La Bucara amber mines
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Description A
superb example of a microcosm of the Dominican
Republic rain forest, a large 205 gram amber gemstone
with 2 Hymenaea leaves, blooming flowers, leptomyrmex
spider ants, spiders, beetles, flies, polydesmid
millipedes, nasute termites, crickets, phorid flies,
dolichopodid flies, tipulid flies and others. A really
fabulous authentic Dominican Amber Gemstone. |
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Dominican Amber From
Iturralde-Vincent
and Macphee “The age and depositional history of
Dominican amber-bearing deposits have not been well
constrained. Resinites of different ages exist in
Hispaniola, but all of the main amberiferous deposits in
the Dominican Republic (including those famous for
yielding biological inclusions) were formed in a single
sedimentary basin during the late Early Miocene through
early Middle Miocene (15 to 20 million years ago),
according to available biostratigraphic and
paleogeographic data. There is little evidence for
extensive reworking or redeposition, in either time or
space. The brevity of the depositional interval (less
than 5 million years) provides a temporal benchmark that
can be used to calibrate rates of molecular evolution in
amber taxa.” In
the Dominican Republic, Hymenaea trees are called
Algorrobo. The Hymenaea tree exudes vast amounts of
resin which over millions of years of pressure hardens
into amber. Generally amber is found because a landslide
along a steep slope in the mountains exposes veins of
black lignite. If the lignite contains amber it is
gradually extracted by digging along the vein with picks
and shovels. After the amber is found it is chiseled by
hand out of the shaft walls, put into burlap sacks and
passed out of the mine where it is separated from the
rock by machete. Larger chunks of amber make it possible
to view inclusions almost immediately by holding the
amber up to sunlight to determine if a large inclusion
has been discovered. Fossil bearing amber is polished
locally. |
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About
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We
have been collecting amber in the field and prepping
rough fossil amber specimens since 1993. Photographs of
our specimens have appeared in National Geographic,
Nature, Science, Scientific American, Discover, Time,
Newsweek, The New York Times and others. We have been
featured in BBC’s production, PaleoWorld's The Amber
Hunters. We offer authentic museum quality Dominican and
Burmese (Burmite) Amber display specimens of rare
insects in amber and also authentic rare rough
unprepared amber for sale. We have traveled many times
to the Dominican Republic where we have chiseled
beautiful amber gemstones out of the lignite layers deep
in the amber mines north of Santiago. We have excavated
in the Palo Quemado and Los CaCaos blue amber mines and
also in La Nueva Toca and the world famous La Toca amber
mines way up in the mountains north of Santiago. For
many years we have extensively collected mid Cretaceous
New Jersey amber in the Raritan formation of central New
Jersey and have traveled many times to collect late
Cretaceous and early Paleocene amber in the Hanna
formation of eastern Wyoming. We have collected mid
Cretaceous amber in the Black Creek formation of eastern
North Carolina and we have spent weeks collecting mid
Cretaceous amber in the northern most Tundra of Alaska.
Some of our collecting trips have been in October of
2003 to the western Aleutian Islands some 1000 miles
west of Anchorage to explore and collect Miocene
amber, August of 2004 and April of 2006 we were back in
the Dominican Republic to collect Miocene amber from the
Palo Quemado amber mines which have recently closed due
to the miners finding little amber, we were back to the
Dominican Republic in April of 2006 to video in the La
Toca amber mines, and in August of 2007 we excavated in
La Toca and La Bucara. We’ve collected Eocene amber in
western Indian in the Cambay amber formation. We've done
excavations in the Dominican Republic in 2012, 2014, and
2016. We did 2 collecting trips to a Eocene amber
deposit in the southern United States in 2017 and in
late summer 2018 we revisited a historic amber site in
the south east that we've collected at in the 1990's. |
