A Crow in the Sea at the mine outflow pipe on the beach at the Palmnicken mine on the Russian Baltic Coast.
Man holds his net at the outflow pipe on the beach on the Russian Baltic Coast at the Palmnicken amber mine. Called “crows” by the mine security guards they pay daily to stand at the mines waste water outflow pipe in the cold Baltic Sea. These men claim that they can net 1,000 Russian Rubles worth of small amber nodules a day that are missed by the mines mechanized equipment in the spray house. The Palmnicken open pit 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. The 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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