List of types of amber
This is a list of types of amber.
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A huge piece of Baltic amber (9,7 kg) - This is one of the largest pieces of Baltic amber ever found. The piece is stored at the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
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- Baltic amber - the most common amber variety, found along the shores of a large part of the Baltic Sea.
- Black amber - aka Oltu stone, actually a type of jet (lignite) found in eastern Turkey.
- Blue amber - a rare coloration, most commonly is found in the Dominican Republic and highly valued by collectors.
- Copal - resinous substance in an intermediate stage of polymerization and hardening between "gummier" resins and amber.
- Delatynite - a variety of amber found in Delatyn, Ukraine.
- Dominican amber - nearly always transparent, and having a higher number of fossil inclusions than Baltic amber.