well , of course, not a stone, but all the same, makhina is so impressive, especially when you know that the cost of such nuggets is already in the millions. it is interesting that amber was not always valuable, at some times they even heated stoves, but in other eras they began to consider it almost a jewel, you know why this is the gallows on the observation deck of the plant. she recalls that the authorities of these places have always strictly monitored illegal mining and the sale of amber, the current prison sentences - this is also that in the fifteenth century there was a decree that attributed violators to be hanged on the first tree that came across. now the extraction of amber is controlled by the state, but illegal immigrants are still working. here it is their boats that are visible in the sea near the village of yantarny, as the locals told me. these risky people scuba dive, pompously wash out a hole at the bottom of a well with a depth of several meters and get it out, yantar often collapses, alas, and with fatal outcomes, another problem , fakes and experts. it is said tha