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InitsPalaeogenedepositsontheSambianPeninsula,whichispartofthe
KaliningradOblastborderingwithPoland,inwesternUkraine,inGermanynear
BitterfeldandinLusatia,succiniteisfoundtogetherwithotherkindsoffossil
resinswhichreceivedtheirmineralnamesinthe19thand20thcentury,includ-
ing:gEDAniTEaftertheLatinnameofthecityofGdańsklGedanum,glESSiTEaf-
terglessum,atermusedforamberbythetribeofAestii,asdescribedbyTacitus,
andSTAnTiEniTEandBECKERiTEafterthenamesofthefoundersoftheStantien
&Beckercompany,whichusedtomineandcraftamberontheSambianPenin-
sula.In1970,theoutstandingRussianamberexpertfromLeningrad(nowSankt
Petersburg)SviatoslavSavkevichgavethenameofgEDAno-SuCCiniTEtoaresin
foundtogetherwithsuccinitedepositsinRussia.
InMiddleGermany
,thenamesofSiEgBuRgiTE(afterthecityofSiegburg)and
goiTSCHiTE(aftertheGoitscheambermine)werecoined.Apartfromstantienite,
nootherblackfossilresinwhichaccompaniessucciniteinallitsdeposits(inthe
largestquantitiesatBitterfeld)hasreceiveditsownmineralname.
OutsideoftheareawhereBalticamberiswidespread,morethanonehun-
dredotherfossilresinshavebeenfound,researched,describedandnamedby
theirdiscoverersovertheyears.Inoldjewelleryonecanfindpiecesmadeof
SiMETiTE(Sicilianamber)andRoMAniTE(fossilresinfromRomaniaorSakhalin).
OldfigurativeambersculptureanddecorationsweremostoftenmadeofBuRMiTE,
afossilresinminedinBurma(nowMyanmar)andcraftedinChina.
Newkindsoffossilresinsaredeterminedonthebasisoftheirorigin,which
oftencorrespondstovariousspeciesofambersecretingtrees,theirdifferentproper-
tiesanddifferentchemismldependentontheconditionsandenvironmentofsedi-
mentation.Researchersofolddidnotalwaysrealisethatsuchdifferencesexisted.
LookingforamberontheBalticbeachesorfishingforitinthesea,oreven
(asdemonstratedmorerecently)miningitintheSambianminesalsoyieldsother
resins,ontopoftheaccompanyingones.Likeamber,thesepiecesarelightweight,
yellowandverydifferenttothetouchthanScandinaviancobblestonesgathered
onthebeach.Theseresinsaregivenvariousnamesthataresometimesmore
andsometimeslessaccurate.Forthelocalambergatherersitisyoungamber
ordarkercolophonythatisalmoststilltacky.Vendors,however,sellthesepieces
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