Club 49
Open the map
Gem and mineral site

Baltic amber

Amber (succinite)
Baltic amber
Msamber · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Ninety percent of the world’s amber comes from one place: the blue-earth layer of the Samland coast on the Baltic, where a 40-million-year-old forest’s resin is dug and dredged in industrial quantities, and washes up on beaches after storms all along the coast from Poland to Lithuania. Amber has been traded from here since the Stone Age along the Amber Road. PUBLIC beachcombing is a regional tradition after autumn storms.

What comes out of it

Amber (succinite)

Where it is

Russia
See it on the map

The source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_amber

Nearby

Other places on the map within a couple of hours.