Amber fossils and authenticity - The Fossil Forum Hi there! I wanted to ask you for your opinion on this amber fossil Does it seems genuine to you? Would you have any recommendations what to look out for? And how common the fake amber fossils actually are? I am quite new to this, I was an enthusiastic fossil hunter, usually searching in slate d
Melting Amber - Questions Answers - The Fossil Forum Given enough pressure you can even force small amber granules to bond together at temperatures below the softening point There is a modification of the above, whereby single but irregular pieces of heat-softened natural amber are simply squashed into moulds to forcefully make them a more useful shape
Real or fake Amber? - The Fossil Forum Amber isn't nearly as rare as some may think and many real specimens with insects are found and sold across the world (More than 1% are genuine) More than 1% are genuine? Are more than 98% inauthentic? This is a sincere question I would have assumed “1%” was a typo, but my knowledge of amber is too limited to make assumptions
What Are These Insects In These Baltic Amber? - The Fossil Forum The amber from the Dominican Republic is about 25 million years old (Oligocene epoch), and came from a tropical rainforest environment (hence the biodiversity found in Dominican amber is greater than that found in Baltic Amber) Dominican amber is also known for the clarity of it's inclusions