Copal Amber Specimen | Solar Relic

⚖️ Weight: 118gms

📏 Size: 15.5cm x 5.2cm

🌍 Source: Madagascar

🔮 Copal Amber: Solar Resin

💛 Solar Plexus Chakra

Bathed in golden light, Solar Relic is a masterwork of natural preservation and a fragment of ancient life suspended in translucent amber. This piece radiates warmth and depth, its rich honeyed tone glowing with the soft fire of captured sunlight.

Within the resin, a delicate world remains intact: numerous ants, a spider or two, and traces of organic material are preserved in exceptional clarity. Their intricate forms of legs, wings, and fine filaments are frozen in motion, perfectly encapsulated as they were millions of years ago. Toward the centre, subtle surface shifts suggest the presence of an ancient cavity, possibly an early enhydro, where trapped air or moisture once moved within the resin before it fully solidified.

Scientifically, this specimen represents Copal Amber, a younger form of fossilised resin that bridges the geological transition between fresh tree resin and true amber. Over millennia, resin secreted by ancient tropical trees hardened, undergoing partial polymerisation that halted the natural decay of everything it touched. The result is a perfect natural archive and a luminous time capsule that preserves both matter and moment.

The clarity, colour, and internal life of Solar Relic make it an extraordinary collector’s specimen. Every inclusion offers a glimpse into ancient ecosystems: the ants symbolising colony and connection, the spiders representing delicate balance and design.

For the discerning collector, Solar Relic is more than a specimen it is light, time, and life converging in one perfect form. A testament to preservation, transformation, and the quiet intelligence of the natural world.

🌀 Fossils

Fossils are life forms of either plants or animals that have been captured within an impression and preserved usually within the sedimentary rocks. Another type of fossil is resin fossilization where insects and plants are embedded within amber.

Most fossils are just casings or cavities of what was, and the soft parts of the animals and plants are rarely preserved due to certain salts and minerals breaking down the organic matter within.

Now another type of fossil can be completely replaced by an imprint or impression of the original shell, animal or plant within sedimentary rock or hard rock such as petrified wood.

Lastly a process called mineralization, is where an entire cavity can be completely replaced meaning if it was a shell, it would have completely dissolved. Through this process certain acids and solutions penetrate the cavity and form a new matrix within the cavity creating a 3D version of the shell itself.