Things to find in Russia

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• Baltic amber Gem & mineral ground
  Ninety percent of the world’s amber comes from one place: the blue-earth layer of the Samland coast on the Baltic, where a 40-million-year-old forest’s resin is dug and dredged in industrial quantities, and washes up on beaches...
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• The Amber Room Legend
  One of the great real lost-treasure mysteries. The Amber Room was a chamber lined entirely in carved amber, gold leaf and mirrors, a gift to Russia in 1716 and called an eighth wonder of the world. The Nazis looted it from the...
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• The Ural emeralds & gems Gem & mineral ground
  The Ural Mountains east of Yekaterinburg are one of the richest gem provinces on Earth: the Malysheva mine has produced Russian emeralds since 1831, and it was here, in the same ground, that alexandrite (the stone that changes...
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• The Valley of Geysers, Kamchatka Cave
  The second largest concentration of geysers on earth, about ninety of them plus hot springs packed into a six-kilometre basin on the Kamchatka Peninsula, with rock at 250 degrees C only 500 metres down. A local scientist, Tatyana...
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