A101 DR8267 3 Isopods, 6 Millipedes Dominican Amber

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3 Rare Fat Isopods, and 6 Rare Millipedesin a large sized authentic Dominican Amber Gemstone DR8267$450.00 No Reserve 3 Rare Fat Isopods, and 6 Rare Millipedesin a large sized authentic Dominican Amber Gemstone DR8267$450.00 No Reserve Some photos of our amber excavations in August 2007 at La Toca and La Bucara amber mines Description This is 3 Rare Fat Isopods, and 6 Rare Millipedes in a large sized authentic Dominican Amber Gemstone. This specimen was excavated in the La Bucara amber mines in the Spring of 2008. DR8267$450.00 No Reserve This beautiful authentic Dominican Amber gemstone is offered with a complete satisfaction guarantee, if you are not satisfied with your purchase you can return any specimen within 14 days for a full refund. 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 w 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.To view photos and videos of our some of our amber excavations in the blue amber mines in mountains of the Dominican Republic and to see a small java applet of the amber mines click - (opens in a new browser window). Shipping and Insurance Within the USA - shipping and insurance is $6.00 - we ship all specimens US Postal Service Priority Mail. Outside of the USA - shipping and insurance to any country outside of the USA including Canada is $25.00 - we ship US Postal Service Global Express Mail. If you require any other method of shipping please contact us. Payment Payment is required within 7 days of the end of the auction. 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 PaleoWorld's The Amber Hunters. We offer authentic museum quality Dominican Amber display specimens of rare insects in amber and also authentic rare Dominican rough unprepared amber for sale. Our collections include museum quality rare insects in amber, unusual botanicals and flowers in amber and also rough unprepared Dominican Amber gemstones. We have traveled many times to the Dominican Republic w 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 most recent 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, ... read more

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