Amber Listserv / Fwd: any information on this?

[JOHN FUDALA]

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From: JOHN FUDALA <ambersafari at gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2006 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Amber Listserv / any information on this?
To: "Maggiecatbird at aol.com" <Maggiecatbird at aol.com>

I think I posted this picture a while ago, this shows samples of black
fossil resins showing up alongside Baltic amber. Both from the seashore,
south of Poland as well as Bitterfeld mine in Germany. Museum of the Earth
in Warsaw collection.

John

On 7/2/06, Maggiecatbird at aol.com <Maggiecatbird at aol.com> wrote:

>  Thanks Andy, this is what I love about the list - gets a good
> conversation going and brings up different angles of people's knowledge.
> I've heard and read several different perspectives on the very existence of
> "black amber"  - though Glen's piece of black Chiapas is black enough for me
> to prove that it does. I guess that's what's missing from my specimen
> cabinet at this point. So now, what makes them black? Condensed debris? Do
> both retinites and succinites produce black amber?  Thanks all,  Maggie
>

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