Medium red amber pendant

Red amber pendant with brass wire and gold-plated stainless steel chain.

Red amber is a more difficult variety to find. Its reddish hue is due to prolonged exposure to oxidation, creating iron salts on its surface; it may also have been exposed to sunlight or forest fires. This reddish hue makes it highly prized and elegant.

Amber is a resin exuded from the pores of a tree called 'Guapinol' in Simojovel, Chiapas.

The amber found deep underground in Simojovel is believed to date back 20 to 25 million years.

When a tree's branches break, or if it receives a wound caused by an insect or animal, it exudes resin to cover the wound and prevent the spread of fungi and pathogens.

Because the resin is sticky, insects or pieces of branches can become trapped. Upon contact with the sun, the resin hardens and solidifies in a fossilization process that can take thousands to millions of years.

Today, miners descend into very deep caves where they extract raw amber, which is then polished with sandpaper to give us the beauty and characteristic color of amber.

Symbolically, red amber represents passion, strength, vitality, protection against negative energies, transformation, purification, etc.