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Jambi blue amber mines

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Why this spot

Miocene coal seams of the South Sumatra basin yielding blue-fluorescing amber recovered as a coal-mining byproduct

Sumatran blue amber is documented in gem trade and paleontological literature since the 2010s.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

unstable coal highwalls, gas

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