Amber Listserv / So. Ill. Amber

[Tom Buckley]

As an aside......didn't someone from the list post an ebay listing months
ago that showed a large chunk of amber from Illinois? An excavator
supposedly brought it up from 125' down at a construction site. Anybody
remember the outcome?

Tom

Tom Buckley
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Polymer Engineering

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From: "Andrea Paysinger" <asenji at earthlink.net>
To: <amber at ambericawest.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:03 PM
Subject: Amber Listserv / So. Ill. Amber


> One possibility (if the stuff proves to be real) is that chunks of
> something like amber could have been carried down into the area from
> glacier melt after the last great ice age.  I don't recall any
> specifics and don't have time right now to look it up, but I seem to
> recall that a similar substance has been found in Canada.
> At one of the gem and mineral shows, where I used to do
> demonstrations of gemstone carving, another exhibitor showed me
> something that looked similar to amber and burned with a pleasant
> odor.  He had found it near the west end of Lake Superior while deer
> hunting.  I don't remember much else.
>
> Wouldn't the species of conifers that produced the resin have been
> more likely to grow in an area that had distinct seasons?
>
> Andie
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