Dominican Amber Pendant with Etched Flowers

A must have, this beautiful Amber pendant is hand etched from behind by one of are artist. This Oval Amber masterpiece is one of kind.

 Dominican Green Amber 

 Weight: 28.9 grams  

Size: 2.50 (w/ Bail 2.75″) x 1.75 x .50 inches

Clarity Grade: AA

Color Grade: G                                                                          

Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic. Resin from the extinct tree Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics.Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent, and it has a higher number of fossil inclusions. This has enabled the detailed reconstruction of the ecosystem of a long-vanished tropical forest.

A study in the early 1990s returned a date up to 40 million years old. However, according to Poinar, Dominican amber dates from Oligocene to Miocene, thus about 25 million years old. The oldest, and hardest of this amber comes from the mountain region north of Santiago. The La Cumbre, La Toca, Palo Quemado, La Bucara, and Los Cacaos mining sites in the Cordillera Septentrional not far from Santiago. Amber has also been found in the south-eastern Bayaguana/Sabana de la Mar area.