A group of 520 Authentic Polished Fossil Dominican Rough
Amber Stones
weighing 778 grams in total or 1.71 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 and parasitic wasps
A101 DRGroup520
$3,000 No Reserve
Description A101
DRGroup520 This is a group of 520 authentic
polished Dominican amber stones weight 778grams or
1.71 pounds. Each amber stone contains at least 1
fossil inclusion, many have multiple inclusions. |
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)
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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. |
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
Us
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. |