Blue amber is only found in one country: here in the Caribbean, in the Dominican Republic. If you want to buy Dominican blue amber, we as amber gemstone dealer and direct exporter are here directly at the foot of the mountain where blue amber is found with the best contacts into the mine to serve you the best we can. We of AmbarAzul sell Dominican Blue Amber and amber gem stones wholesale to you directly from the place of its very origin. Amber jewelry supplier and Dominican blue amber sterling silver jewelry and gold jewelry supplier using Dominican amber directly from the mines, as a manufacturer who offers custom crafted amber semi products and amber and silver jewelry, rough amber and raw amber from the Dominican mines in the Caribbean, amber earrings, amber bracelets, amber rings, amber chains, amber necklaces and blue amber necklaces as well as beads and cabochons and typical Caribbean amber jewelry. There are several theories about the origin of the blue color in blue Dominican amber and it is not fully understood what causes the blue color in Dominican blue amber. We know that it is a result of blue fluorescence and no solid blue color. The best way to test blue amber is placing it under an ultra-violet lamp which intensifies the blue olor to a radiant cobalt-blue. And, we have noticed that blue amber can be recognized by a very agreeable smell. One theory links the color in Dominican blue amber to the occurrence of volcanic ash or dust which was present when the resin was first pressed out from hymenaea protera millions of years ago. And - of course - besides the blue Dominican amber, we also have rough amber in regular amber colors and all those special amber colors like green amber and blood red amber, purple amber, as they are only found in Dominican Amber. Blue amber comes in different shades of blue. It is difficult to put Dominican Blue Amber into categories, since our Caribbean amber is not an industrial product. In the lower quality (regular blue amber), the blue tone can only really be appreciated under an ultra violet light source. Then you will find a strong blue reflection in the yellow undertone of Dominican blue amber (strong blue). But there is also something we call "ultra blue amber" which is visible in almost any kind of light. This is extremely rare, hard to get and - of course - the most expensive kind of Dominican blue amber. And - of course - there is everything in between, never the same, because it is the beauty of nature and not a semi-industrial product like reconstituted and enhanced material from some other countries. Amber from the Dominican Republic is renowned for the diversity of fossils and inclusions it contains, the three rare "treasures", which are scorpions, lizards and frogs but also many other "bugs" in amber, like pseudo scorpion, fly, damsel fly, dragon fly, termite in amber. Therfore, we also offer fossil amber with bugs in amber. Our Dominican Blue Amber is the REAL thing, natural amber just the way it comes from the mines. While the mystery around the origin of its color has not been cleared, one thing is sure: Dominican Blue Amber is beautiful and it is extremely rare.
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schlaube drippping downAmber (succinite / retinite) is a fossil resin. The resin flowed out the bark, probably after previous injury, dried up and hardened. There is different flow forms like e.g. drops, mass flows and "drop-on-drop-flow" called "shlaubs" (Schlauben). The later has more fossil inclusions, because it resulted from thrust-wise resin flow. The sticky surface caught the animals and the next resin flow covered them.

According to scientist, the oldest well-known amber originates from the carbon time and has an age of approximately 345 million years (Upper Carboniferous) The oldest know amber containing insects comes from the Lower Cretaceous (approx. 146 million years ago).. Baltic amber and Dominican amber are "young", compared with it. The resins of these areas have extruded from trees(during the tertiary age (25-50 million years). Copal is a much younger resin which also is found in many places likeamber resinColombia and the Dominican Republic, but its behavior is different from that of the "genuine" (old) amber. Baltic amber is found at the coasts of the east and North Sea andin the SAM countries' "blue earth". It originated in the old Tertiary period approx. 40-50 million years ago in the area what today would be Sweden and Finland.

In the Baltic resin supplier was pinus succinifera, and/or other conifers of the Araucaria Family (Araucariaceae). The amber-resin producing trees of the Caribbean areawere the algarroba species.
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leaf in amberAmber can be found on all continents of the earth, with exception of the pole regions, mainly at the east coast of the USA, Canada, Burma, Mexico, Lebanon, Borneo, Romania and Sicily and other places. But most of these these offer by far a smaller yield than the Baltic region and the Dominican Republic. Therefore, most of the amber which is used in the commercial production of jewellery comes from the Baltic region or the Dominican republic. The Baltic area has the most productive and widely known occurrence in Europe.
Amber Origins & Mining

The amber occurrences in the Dominican Republic is not as old as the Baltic, but has much more fossil inclusions of plants and small animals and for this reason is highly appreciated by scientists and collectors alike. At few places in the Dominican Republic a kind of amber can be found that has a blue glow even in daylight. UV light strengthens this effect.

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Monument 1, one of the four Olmec colossal heads at La Venta. This one is nearly 3 meters tall.
Amber is considered a gem stone. Amber has been traded since earliest times and was considered a mystic and religious material. Over the "amber routes" it was distributed throughout Europe and all of the know ancient world. Already the Phoenicians traded amber as a prime commodity with the ancient Baltic peoples. Since about 3000 B.C., Baltic amber was exchanged for goods from southern Europe and there were even 'highways' or trade routes crossing Europe and leading into the Far East.

In Central America, the Olmec civilization also was mining amber around 3000 B.C. There are legends in Mexico that mention the use of amber in adorning, consuming and using it for stress reduction as a natural remedy.

For thousands of years amber was regarded as a precious substance, and for its mysterious origin considered as a divine protection from harm to the bearer of amber jewelry. As such, it also became to be used as an ingredient in medicines and for religious purposes by "pagans" and "Christians". Around 58 A.D., the Roman Emperor Nero sent a Roman knight on a search for this "Gold of the North" and brought hundreds of pounds of amber to Rome.

In later days, from 1283 on, the Teutonic Knights, after returning from the crusades, became absolute rulers of Prussia and the Baltic sources of amber, as well as the manufacture of objects made of amber, punishing transgressors with death by hanging. For the next 500 years, ambar was used again for mainly a religiouspurpose: Rosary beads, used by Catholics and Moslems alike.

hispaniola amberWhen they arrived in 1492 at the Caribbean island of "La Hispaniola", Columbus and his men were not interested in amber, but in gold and for this reason the existence of amber from the Dominican Republic was little knownfor a long time. But history tells us that Columbus received from a young Taino prince apair of shoes decorated with Caribbean amber, in exchange for a strand of Baltic amber beads that he had offered.
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