Mexican Amber
Dominican & Mexican amber is naturally green.
This is a fact. Mexican greens come many times in combinations of green, red, yellow with green hues. Mexican amber also has magnificent blue/green colors, not as strong as the Dominican version, but also beautiful. The reason is that the fossilized resin also originates form the the leguminous tree Hymenaea protera, the extinct probable ancestor of present-day Hymenaea species.
Green Mexican Amber
It is found in the mountains around Simojovel, a town as well as Ixtapa-Soyalo in the department of Chiapas. Mayans also often burned amber as incense in their rituals. The Mayan name for this resin material is “Copalli”. Sounds familiar like copal, right? Mayan trade routes transported Chiapas amber to the Mexican coasts. Even today you will find untreated red and green amber in Mexico.
