Did You know that there are up to 500 different hues of natural Amber?
This semi-precious stone formed from a mixture of more than 40 organic compounds, like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, succinic acid, potassium, sodium, iron, etc. These elements combined over time with the preserved resin of ancient pine trees and created a pallet of magical amber colors.
White Amber
White color amber is quite rare and highly valued by jewelry enthusiasts. It is not easy to find completely pure white color of this gemstone, because commonly there are various impurities visible. Moreover, white amber is praised for various decorative swirls.
Butterscotch or Milky Amber
The pride of Baltics – Butterscotch Amber is characterized by its milky white to creamy yellow shades, caused by millions of dispersed tiny bubbles trapped within the resin. This type of amber can be dark yellow or even white. For a long time, this was a gemstone for Royals, as it was a very limited recourse of this type of amber.
Yellow or Honey Amber
Baltic Sea is the mother of yellow amber. This color is very common and it accounts for ~70% of all pieces found. Yellow amber was highly valued throughout the years and people considered it as a stone of the Sun.
Brown or Cognac Amber
This color of amber has slightly darker tone than yellow. Cognac amber is commonly preferred by buyers, because it matches well with different fashion styles.
Green or Olive Amber
This particular color of amber was formed when resin from the trees fell near different plants. Chlorophyll, the pigment of plants, reacted with resin and this is how some amber became green. The more intense color, the pricier is the stone. Quite commonly amber is of an olive oil color.
Blue or Dominican Amber
This color of amber is considered to be the rarest one. Normally blue amber tends to be very expensive and is found in mines of Dominican Republic. Although it is not the usual blue, as we are used to.
Blue color reveals itself as the sun beams through the amber and the hydrocarbons create that blue glow once they are in sun's ultraviolet light.
Red or Cherry Amber
This color of amber is one of the rarest colors of amber and it accounts only for 0.5% of total gemstones found. These gemstones needed to stay in the air for a long period of time, in the heat of the sun, forest fires to become red color. Due to its rarity and potential mystical powers red amber is highly valued in Japan.
Black Amber
Nearly 15% of all amber that is found today is categorized as black. This color is not pure as additional components that are trapped inside, for example remains of trees and different kinds of impurities take 85-90% of the whole amber piece. Black amber is not yet black, until You examine such stone in the sun light. Instead of black, you might see red, brown or other colors.
As you have already noticed the color spectrum is vast and we bet You would like to own at least a piece of each color. That is amber magic.
If it is not yet possible today to have it all, your choice should mostly rely on your color and shape preferences. Whatever You’ll choose, remember – that every color has its own story to tell.