Piece of ± 6cm x 5cm and 34 grams, full of bugs, the main insect is a beetle.
* This amber is called copal because he is very young and does not have the same characteristics as typical amber, amber is a pine resin hardened by time, especially the Pinus succinifera, with more than 30 million years old. Its composition is a mixture of several resins, succinic acid and a volatile oil containing C10H16O sometimes sulfide H2S acid. While the copal is a wide range of resins obtained from existing trees and also appears in some cases state of fossilization. A natural resin, has almost the same properties as the amber, so it also has bugs, bubbles, leaves, etc. ..
Pliocene
Bucaramanga, Colombia