Teenage boy holding amber and the Russian Rubles he has made in one morning selling other amber pieces in Yantarny, Russia.
A teenage boy in a small group of boys holds a piece of amber and the Russian Rubles he has made on one morning selling other amber pieces he has scavenged from the Palmnicken open pit amber mine on the Russian Baltic Sea coast. These boys are called “Crows” by the mine security guards that they pay daily to pick at the earth in and around the open pit mine in Yantarny, Russia. This boy claimed that he can make up to 100,000 Rubles a month selling the amber pieces he finds to tourists and foreign amber dealers. The Palmnicken mine is the largest amber mine in the world and it is estimated that more than 90% of world’s known amber is located there. This Baltic Sea region is the world’s original source of amber and stones from this region have been found in Neolithic burial sites and Egyptian tombs dating back to 3200 Amber from the Palmnicken mine was used in the restoration of the Amber Room at the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo outside of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Photo by Chuck Nacke
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Location: Yantarny, Kaliningrad Oblast, Baltic Sea, Russia
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
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