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Amber from
Cordillera Septentrional, Santiago Province, Dominican Republic


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Species:'Amber' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Coleoptera2 photos of Amber associated with Coleoptera at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amber data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cordillera Septentrional, Santiago Province, Dominican Republic
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:364021
Long-form Identifier:1:3:364021:0
GUID (UUID V4):be975a4d-61c7-4c03-b951-e6907f33a9d9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumbre Amber Deposit, from Santiago Province, the Northwestern Part of the Dominican Republic Paweł Stach...Minería, L. Navarro Av., Santo Domingo 10201, Dominican Republic; carlos.george@dgm.gov.do Faculty of Engineering... Ave Universitaria No. 100, Cotuí 43000, Dominican Republic; coralaltagracia@hotmail.com Correspondence:...Abstract: The amber-bearing coaly shale from the La Cumbre deposit (Cordillera Septentrional, Dominican Republic)...the formation of the fossil resin. Keywords: Dominican amber; La Cumbre deposit; Raman spectroscopy; facies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1: Many amber mines in the Palo Alto de L a Cumbre region are nearly inaccessible and can be...(Photo taken with 135 mm lens from L a Toca mine.) Amber, the fossilized resin of prehistoric gemstone...Clemens, Michigan 48043 Throughout the ages, golden amber jewelry has reached great heights of popularity... However, for the last 30 years, amber from the Dominican Republic progressively has become more known...has made amber collecting a reality for hobbyists i n the Western Hemisphere. A t one time amber was considered
Report (issue)
Secretaryship of State of GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Thomas Wayland Vaughan, Geologist in Charge...VOL. I A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC T. W. Vaughan, Wythe Cooke, D. D. Condit...of State of Fomento and Communications, Dominican Republic WASHINGTON 1921 B PRESS OF GIBSON BROTHERS...features 26 Cordillera Septentrional 27 Samand Peninsula 28 Cibao Valley 29 Cordillera Central 30...Drainage 41 North slope of the Cordillera Central South slope of the Cordillera Central 41 42 42 43 Cordillera
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
huge number of resin types, the succinite (Baltic amber), containing succinic acid, remains the most frequently...recognized using Raman spectroscopy, i.e., Borneo amber [19] or siegburgite [26]. Raman spectroscopy was...reported as a successful technique for studies of amber-hosted animal inclusions [19], archaeological objects...objects [27,29] as well as differentiation between amber, copal (immature resins) and colophony [34]. In...Mexico, the Dominican Borneo, worldwide localities Russia, Myanmar, Mexico, the Dominican Republic,Republic
Journal (issue)
321 J. Gemm., 1982, XVIII, 4 AMBER FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC By HELENR. FRAQUET, F.G.A. There...quantities of amber from the Dominican Republic. Initial reaction has been guarded—that it is not amber at all...something, unspecified, wrong with it. In faet this amber was first noted by Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth...1914-15). *A few years ago an interesting discovery of amber was made in the island of San Domingo. It appears...in some of the amber from Catania, Sicily.' The lack of identity for Dominican amber is explained by
Journal (issue)
French Blue – A Book Review Feature on Amber 16 32 16 22 26 Amber – The Caribbean Approach Mining ...32 Rubies from Mozambique 38 Baltic Amber Deposits Green Amber – Characteristics and Treatments Gemology...InColor | Fall/Winter 2009 15 FEATURE STORY Amber – The Caribbean Approach When Christopher Columbus...of the island of Hispaniola in the “New World,” amber was already a well-known commodity in Europe, having...wrote in one of his letters that he even gave an amber necklace to one of the Taino tribal chiefs on Hispaniola
Book
Butterworth Gem Books Edited by Peter G. Read Amber Helen Fraquet Beryl John Sinkankas and Peter G...Darragh Topaz D. B. Hoover Butterworths Gem Books Amber Helen Fraquet Butterworths London Boston Durban...PublicationData Fraquet. Helen Amber.--{Butterworths gem books) I. Amber I. Title 553'.29 QE391.AS ISBN...Fraquet. Helen. Amber. (Butterworths gem books) Includes bibliographies and index. I. Amber. I. Title. II...Ltd., Frome and London Preface This book is an amber primer. The subject of fossil resins is so vast
Book
study of the Neogene basins of the Matanzas and Santiago areas. In returning to Cuba at the height of the...Mann for Trinidad, and Mann et al. for the Dominican Republic. Retirement years. In 1990, Wim retired with...Neogene Basin Evolution in the Southwestern Dominican Republic: A Foraminiferal Study (co-supervised by...the Yaque Group (Neogene) of the northern Dominican Republic. Bulletins of American Paleontology 54 (239)...Caribbean geological conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Aug. 16-20, 1980, Vol. 1, pp. 225-230. Bold
Book
nis _— - _ ——- — a The Quest for Life in Amber George and Roberta Poinar g Helix Books vv Addison-Wesley...Data x Poinar, George O. The quest for life in amber / George and Roberta Poinar. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...Title. QE742.P66 560—dc20 2. DNA, Fossil. 3. Amber. I. Poinar, Roberta. 1994 94-3043 IP Copyright...Preface Acknowledgments Amber from the Sea The Russian Connection Looking at Amber Up Close African Safari...Safari Adventures with Tomb Amber Excursion in Poland Searching for Berber Amber Bringing Them Back Alive
Book
n Data Poinar, George 0. The quest for life in amber/ George and Roberta Poinar. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...ISBN 0-201-62660-8 1. Fossils. 2. DNA, Fossil. 3. Amber. I. Poinar, Roberta. II. Title. QE7 42.P66 1994... IX XIII I Amber from the Sea I 2 The Russian Connection 7 3 Looking at Amber Up Close 16 ...Adventures with Tomb Amber 33 6 Excursion in Poland 38 7 Searching for Berber Amber so 8 Bringing...Million-Year-Old Cells 63 10 Pursuing Ancient DNA 70 II Amber South of the Border 79 12 The Extinct DNA Study
Book
Chapter 12 Florissant 205 Chapter 13 Dominican Amber 233 Chapter 14 Rancho La Brea 259 Museums...(broadly – we include the USA, Canada, and the Dominican Republic). Following an introduction to FossilLagerstätten...Museo del Ámbar Dominicano, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic BHIGR Black Hills Institute of Geological...including conservation traps such as entombment in amber, deepfreezing in permafrost, pickling in oil swamps...from death to burial in sediment (or entombment in amber, cave deposits, and so on). The time taken by this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Haitises formations) in eastern Hispaniola (Dominican Republic) Juan C. Braga a,⁎, Alberto Díaz de Neira...Pliocene–Early Pleistocene Hispaniola Eastern Dominican Republic a b s t r a c t The virtually unfolded sedimentary...Cordilleras Central and Oriental in the eastern Dominican Republic (eastern Hispaniola, tropical North Atlantic)...precursor reliefs of the Cordillera Oriental and the southeastern end of the Cordillera Central. Only a limited...concentrated on the Cibao Valley in the northern Dominican Republic (see McNeill et al., 2008 for a short historical
Catalog/List
.............................. 53219 Fossils: Amber ..................................................coveted trophies. They are an off-white color with amber hoofs and horns and are found only in Alaska and...Leiyang Co., Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China Fluorite is one of the most...FLUORITE De’An Mine, Wushan, Jianxi Province, People’s Republic of China The highly desirable Fluorite...SULFUR ON MATRIX Agrigento (Girgenti), Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy Sharp, blocky and bright yellow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from midCretaceous Kachin amber Cihang Luo, Tian Jiang, Jacek Szwedo, Bo Wang, Chuantao...(Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, Cretaceous Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j...(Hemiptera: 2 Fulgoromorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber 3 4 Cihang Luoa, b, Tian Jiangc, Jacek Szwedod...Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology and Museum of Amber Inclusions, 16 17 18 Abstract A new genus and...specimen from mid-Cretaceous Kachin 20 (Burmese) amber. This is the ninth genus of the extinct family Perforissidae
Catalog/List
...................... 49184 – 49186 Fossils: Amber...................................................CLINOCHLORE) Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey It is truly unfortunate...Departement., Sava, (North-Eastern) Region, Ansiranana Province, Madagascar Madagascar is a veritable treasure...Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa The mineral collecting world was...Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa The Manganese Mines of N’chwaning
Book (edition)
fly in Baltic amber about 35 million years old.© NHMPL Back cover: Piece of Baltic amber. with a swarm... 3 PREFACE 5 1 WHAT IS AMBER? 7 2 WHERE IS AMBER FOUND? 19 3 AMBER INCLUSIONS 37 4 ARTHROPODS... 5 re ace N 1 993 l STARTED WORK CURATING the amber collection in the Department of Palaeontology at...Th is was in response to interest generated in amber by the f ilm Jurassic Park. It was my task to clean... identify and organize the specimens. Books on amber often name the insects and other inclusions t hat
Book
Advance, uncorrected reading copy The AMBER FOREST A Reconstruction of a Vanished World GEORGE POINAR...PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS. PFWCETOS. NEW /ERSEY THE AMBER FOREST UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF Pub Date Foreign...Princeton, (609) 258-5165 Phone, (609) The AMBER FOREST A Reconstruction of a Vanished World GEORGE...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poinar, George O. The amber forest: a reconstruction George Poinar, Jr.,...paper) Dominican Republic. 2. Amber Dominican Republic. 1. Amber fossils ogy Dominican Republic. I. Poinar
Book
AMBER The Golden Gem Of The Ages AMBER The Golden Gem Of The Ages Patty C. Rice, Ph.D. The Kosciuszko... Library of Congress Cataloging Rice, Patty C Amber, the golden gem of the ages. 3rd Printing (with...(with revisions) Includes Index and Bibliography I. Amber. I. Title. QE391.A5R52 ISBN: 0-917004-22-1 in...revised edition of Amber--Golden Gem of the Ages because the traditions of amber are closely connected...to the current use of carved amber pieces as contemporary jewelry. Amber has represented a unique value
Book
field trip to the Cerro de ht l\1uerte in the Cordillera Talainanca that provided helpful insights into...vas on a J\ifio-Pliocene flora from the Eastern Cordillera of the Bolivian 1\ndes (Grahain et al., 2001...\'7"t:st Indian ,\rch.ipelago (Punta Cana, Domican Republic, 5-9 July 2006). The book benefited considerablv...1990. Late Tertiary nucrofossil flora from the Republic of J-:Iaiti. An1er. J. Bot. 77: 91 l-926. - -...L'>fio-Pliocene palynoflora frorn the Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia: Implications for the uplift lustory
Journal (issue)
Idar-Oberstein; Jaroslav Hyršl, Prague, Czech Republic; Brian Jackson, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh;...Usambara effect, jadeite from Kazakhstan, an imitation amber carving, a brooch featuring a 110 ct non-nacreous...within the so-called Eastern Brazilian pegmatite province in Minas Gerais State (Pedrosa-Soares et al.,...Field Trip Guide. Eastern Brazilian Pegmatite Province. PEG 2009 – 4th International Symposium on Granitic....com Dr Jaroslav Hyršl CZ-14200 Prague, Czech Republic Email: hyrsl@hotmail.com Dr Heinz-Jürgen Bernhardt
Book (volume)
Resources, Huntington Beach, CA; Byron Lewis, The Amber Co., North Hollywood, CA; Dr. Werner Lieber, Heidelberg...Red Rose Quartz, Custer, SD; Sharon Skalko, The Amber Co., North Hollywood, CA; David C. & Barbara T....of amber mines in Simojovel area, Chiapas, MeXiCO........ssseseeereeeree Figure 2. Map of amber deposits...deposits in eastern Dominican Republic........cceseesseceersereenes Figure 3. Map of amber mines in northern...northern Dominican Republic ...........:cceseeseeseeseerees Figure 4. Entrance to the La Toca amber mine
Book
materials develop frictional electricity when rubbed. Amber (and, unfortunately, most of its imitations) will...right-hand zone indicates diamond. In between an amber zone acts as a buffer keeping the indication from...colour. In some organic materials such as coral, amber and pearl (conchiolin) the colour is caused by organic...has been known at least since classical times. Amber can be darkened; the aquamarine variety of beryl...which heat affects gem materials. The darkening of amber results from charring and/or oxidation; removing
Book (edition)
concludes with descriptions of pearl, coral, jet and amber, and other materials used in ornamentation which...intermediate and acid members of the volcanic province in southern Brazil and Uruguay, and the fire opals...particularly in the Yun Yang deposit in Hubei Province, China. For many years on the basis of experimental...the following examples of emerald, diamond and amber. Emerald Among the oldest emeralds that have been...older Amber The third example chosen to illustrate the many ages of gems is the organic gem, amber. Amber
Book (volume)
Resources, I-Iuntington Beach, CA; Byron Lewis, The Amber Co., North Hollywood, CA; Dr. Werner Lieber, Heidelberg...Red Rose Quartz, Custer, SD; Sharon Skalko, The Amber Co., North Hollywood, CA; David C. & Barbara T.... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS Figure 1. Map of amber mines in Simojovel area, C:hiapas, Mexico............. 8 Figure 2. Map of amber deposits in eastern Do1ninican Republic................................... 10 Figure 3. Map of amber 1nines in northern Dominican Republic.............................
Book (edition)
Shell, Freshwater Pearls and Shell, Ivory, Coral, Amber, Jet, Coal. A BRIEF H1sTORY oF NoRTH AMERICAN GEMSTONES...One of the few deposits of precious opal in this province is in the Burns Lake area, where John Shelford...only two deposits of peridot are known within the province capable of furnishing peridot grains large enough...aimless prospecting in British Columbia. In this province the exposures of serpentinite have been carefully...and Petroleum Resources, "The minerals of this Province may be only acquired under the provisions of the
 
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