Dominican Republic amber,

There are three types of mm light or amber, full-bodied, and aromatic rums. Light rum is also called white rum and is usually colorless having a very light molasses flavor. It is distilled on a multicolumn continuous still at 160—180° proof and can be matured in either glass, stainless steel, or uncharred oak barrels. The age of the mm does not need to be declared on the labels. Light-bodied rums are distilled in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. 

Amber can be formed by any plant that produces sap or resin. It is not specific to pine trees, as is commonly believed. The amber found in the Baltic region of Eastern Europe was indeed formed in a huge pine forest that covered that area about 10 million years ago, during the Miocene Epoch. Much of today s commercial amber is mined in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. These deposits are older than the European amber, and were formed by large shrubs in the Pea family. 

Waggoner, B. M. Poinar, G. O. (1992). A fossil myxomycete plasmodium from Eocene-Oligocene amber of the Dominican Republic. Journal of Protozoology, 39, 639 2. 

Samples were obtained on site by T. A. Lee, Jr., C. J. Welch, and R. Lowe. Isolated samples of amber from Simojovel and the sample from the Dominican Republic were provided by G. O. Poinar, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley). The samples of Baltic amber were provided by C. W. Beck (Vassar College). 

Amber deposits are found worldwide and are reckoned to be firom 300 to 15 million years old. The two best known deposits are those in the Baltic region and in the Dominican Republic. 

The second most plentiftil amber, that ftom the Dominican Republic, is younger, at between 25 and 15 million years old. Some of it is believed to be die resin finm a shrub of the genus Hymenaea, but several different types occur, with varying ages and different physical properties. 

As with amber, copal deposits are found worldwide in subtropical regions, for example Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Columbia, Australia, New Zealand, West and East Africa, and Madagascar, to name but a few. Much of that found is probably no more than a few hundred years old, though some is considerably older. 

The earliest indicator of a malaria parasite (Plasmodium domintcana, precursor of the prevalent Plasmodium juxtanucleare species, which infects birds) was discovered in the body-cavity of a female Culex-mosquito from Tertiary amber in the Dominican Republic a fossil, which is estimated to date back 25 to 45 million years (Fig. 5.163). [411]... 

Mosquito in amber from a mine near the northern Cordillera Septentrional mountain range of the Dominican Republic. 

Amber is a fossd resin, extremely appreciated for its colom and beauty, and used as a gemstone from very early times. Natmal amber deposits are found all around the world, the most famous being the ones from the Baltic sea, the Dominican republic, Sicily, Borneo, Spain, etc. Amber resources are documented in Romania since the late sixteenth century, around the village of Colli (Buzau County), but they have certainly been exploited only starting with the modern age, after 1828, in the same area (Ghiurca, 1999 Wollmann, 19%). 

The maturation of amber takes several million years. The oldest ambers known are of the Carboniferous age (c. 350 Ma) and the youngest are the late Miocene ambers of Borneo (c. 5 Ma). The world s main deposits are of die Baltic amber succinite and deposits in the Dominican Republic. Pinus species-derived Baltic ambers (Eocene-Oligocene c. 35 Ma) are the most widely used for carving and the production of varnishes. Other deposits are known from south-east Asia, Mexico, USA, Canada, Romania, Germany and a few localities in the Mediterranean. 

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