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Open pit amber mine in Kaliningrad, showing the lithology of the Prussian Formation, the source rock of Baltic amber. In situ Baltic amber is derived from the sediments of the geological formation termed the Prussian Formation, formerly called the "Amber Formation", with the main amber bearing horizon being referred to as "Blue Earth", so named due to its glauconite content.
1962 - Einar Fehrn's son, Søren Fehrn entered the company where he began grinding and polishing amber pieces. 1965 - House of Amber opened its first workshop with one employee; 1980s- The company began focusing on refining the production of amber jewelry. 1988 - House of Amber opened a branch in Gdansk, Poland with 16 employees.
The Amber Road (east route), as hypothesized by Polish historian Jerzy Wielowiejski, Główny szlak bursztynowy w czasach Cesarstwa Rzymskiego (Main Route of the Amber Road of the Roman Empire), 1980 The route from the Baltic Sea. The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber from coastal areas of the North Sea and the ...
An ant inside Baltic amber Unpolished amber stones. Amber is fossilized tree resin. Examples of it have been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, [1] and worked as a gemstone since antiquity. [2] Amber is used in jewelry and as a healing agent in folk medicine.
Amber is used in jewelry. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. ... Baltic amber (101 P) Burmese amber (98 P) C. Canadian ...
Rovno amber, occasionally called Ukrainian amber, [1] is amber found in the Rivne Oblast and surrounding regions of Ukraine and Belarus. The amber is dated between Late Eocene and Early Oligocene, and suggested to be contemporaneous to Baltic amber (Prussian Formation). Major exploration and mining of the amber did not start until the 1990s.